I run as fast as my four legs will take me,
Why am I running?
I am running from them,
That stupid pride of high breed lions
Who ruined my family.

So I am running away
And I don’t ever want to come back
I never want to see their faces
In my life again…

But who will even care?
Who will care that I am gone?
It does not matter, but all the same
I will be gone within the hour

This is my final goodbye
I’ve thought too long and hard
I hope the next time
The wind whips past your ears
You will remember me.

I am Wind Dancer.

For Dogs and Wolves

First Tess has to find a very rare and secret ingredient, which makes all of this possible. It is extremely hard to find and get, and unless you know what to look for, you wont find it. Tess then has to draw and color what the newborn would look like on a piece of paper.

To start off, Tess has to get a big pot, and have 4 gallons of water per each variation of dog, including all the puppy and adult stages. Not including the newborn stage, of course. The pot is heated up till the water boils for exactly 60 seconds. 1 drop of the special ingredient is added, and depending on the amount of water there is, the mixture should take on a slightly pale color. The pot then must be taken off the flames, and set down to cool for 15 minutes. When it is cool enough, the solution will be a darker shade. Now the drawing is added, and the pot must be heated up until it almost starts to bubble. It is kept at that temperature for 3 days. Then it must cool to room temperature. After it is cooled, the mixture is thick and creamy.

Drawings are made of the different puppy stages. The mixture is divided up equally between each variation of puppy, and placed into separate pots, one for each type of puppy the newborn could turn into. One of the drawings are placed in each pot. More of the special ingredient is added to each pot, one drop for every day it takes for the newborn to grow into that specific pup. The pots are brought back up to boil for a day, then are placed in a -5 degree freezer (Celsius). Each pot spends 1 day in the freezer for the amount of  drops of the special ingredient that were placed in it. aka 5 drops, 5 days. If the pot stays in there longer than its allotted time, the result is a PPS puppy.

When each pot spends the amount of time it is supposed to in the freezer, it is boiled again for 3 days. The mixture is then watery and thin.While at a boil, a drawing of an adult stage is added into a pot, along with 2 drops of the special ingredient for each day it takes to reach that specific adult form. The pot is then put into a 0 degree Celsius freezer. Again, it spends one day for every 2 drops added to the mixture. If there is a screw up, and the solution is in the freezer for not enough or too much time, there will be a PPS puppy, and the adult stage will not show.

Now the finished solutions are put into the big pot again, but only a certain amount from each mixture. In order to make things more interesting, Tess will make a certain type harder to get by adding less to the big pot. After it is all stirred and mixed, it is poured into vials that are sent to her friends.

Ungrowing Pets

Pets that only have 1 stage (the adult) are started almost exactly like the growing pets. A pot of water is boiled, and 1 drop of the special ingredient is added for every gallon of water. The drawing of the pet is stirred in, and the pot is left to boil for 5 days. Then it is placed in a -5 degrees Celsius freezer for a week. After that, the solution is bottled up and sent to friends of Tess.

Okay, I got a vial from Tess, now what?

This can be done at home. First, you need to have chickens of any breed. What you do is you make a fruit smoothie of any kind, and add 1 drop from the vial. Depending on what species of adoptable the vial creates, you also add one of these items; a horse hair, a dog hair, a cat hair, a rat hair, a hair from a dog and a bird feather, or a spider web. Make sure to puree it into the smoothie.

Now feed the smoothie to a chicken. At first, it may be hard to get them to eat it, but after they’ve eaten one before, they will gobble it down. In about 7 days, they will lay an egg that is bigger than normal chicken eggs. The egg must not be taken away! In 3 days, it will hatch into a newborn if there are more than one stage, or into a miniature adult if there is only one stage. In that case, the mini will grow up to normal size quickly. When the egg hatches, you can then take the pet away from the chicken, but all of them will have to be hand fed.

Now that you know how the formula is made, and how to use it to create your own pets, maybe you should be nice to Tess, and thank her and all of the other CS staff for all the hard work that they have done to make this possible.

I sit in wait
Ears perked forwards, eyes focused
Thinking only one thing;
Will someone pick me?

And every time they open the doors
I sigh and look away
For it’s the puppies they want
Not an old gray wolf

Why must I get my hopes up
Time after time?
I know the same will happen
I know their gazes will only skim

And so when the pound opens
And light wafts through the door
The others put on a welcome face
And I turn my back

I listen to the sounds
Of scrolling and laughing
The sounds of others
Getting another chance

Then I felt something odd
Press against my back
The sound of a click
The shine of a smile

My eyes widen
I’m confused
The last time I felt this
I was a pup in the shop

Slowly I turn and stare
Into the eyes of my second chance
Into the soul of my adopter
Who sits behind the screen

If wolves could do backflips
I’d have won a gold medal
For this was my new home
This was my new chance