Adoption & Re-Adoption
Adoption
Adoption at Bear Run is a fairly simple affair. Artists will post a form for you to fill out in order to have a chance at winning an adoptable. Some of them are FCFS (first come first serve), and others will be things like finding a picture of something, giving the horse a personality, decorating your form, etc.
The artist will choose a winner based on those who filled the form out correctly, and which one they liked best. Unless it is an adopt that specifically asks for extras like art, fancy forms, writing, etc. we prefer that if you do any editing of the form that it is only minor things like centering or listing and coloring the text.
Filling Out an Adoption Form
All forms will include some basic info, and will look something like this:
Username:
Name:
Gender:
Halter color:
Some artists do theirs a bit differently, or the horse will already have a gender, it just depends on the artist. Filling out the information is fairly self explanatory, but here's a bit more about some of the pieces of the form:
Show name: Some artists will have an optional spot for a show name (you may include one even if the form just says 'name', just separate your show name and barn name like so "Taming the Dream // Captive" or "Taming the Dream || Captive" or something along those lines) A show name tends to be a longer name that may be a bit odd in some cases, and the call or barn name is what you would call the horse as a nick name of sorts.
Gender: Be sure to check that the artist hasn't already given the horse a gender. If the 'gender' section if the form is blank, then you may decide if the horse is a Stallion (male) or Mare (female). In the case of breedings, the owner always gets to decide the gender.
Halter color: Once the horse has an owner, it will receive a halter. You may choose the color(s) and pattern of the halter, but keep in mind that it is a small space to work with so we won't be able to do detailed pictures on it. Good pattern ideas are things like stripes, plaid, small images like flower petals or snow flakes, etc. Sometimes an artist might add a bit more based on the ideas you give them, such as adding a charm of some kind, but this is not usually the case. If you want an idea of the kind of halters artists can do, I encourage you to look through the horses that already have halters on them and see what colors and patterns they have.
Re-Adoption
Sometimes an owner no longer feels a connection with one of their tolters and they wish to give them to a new home. This can be done pretty easily. All the owner has to do is either pick someone they wish to gift the Tolter to and PM them to see if they would like to own it, or they can post in the fanclub and have interested people pm them that includes any information that the original owner wants to see from the new owner, be it something like giving the Tolter a personality, saying what they'll be using the Tolter for, etc. Once a new owner is chosen, the original owner needs to pm an archivist if the horse is already listed in the archive (we're working on a new archive, so not all of the horses are listed yet), or post on the horse's adoption page letting the artist know that ownership has been transferred and who it has been transferred to.
We will soon be setting up a re-adoption thread for people to post in instead of the fanclub!