Wearable NC items cannot be applied to unconverted Neopets or the following painted Neopet body types: Maraquan, mutant, baby, invisible, and fruit and vegetable Chias, unless specified in item details. The NC Mall features some NC items that are only wearable. While your Neopets do gain experience with each battle, the experience doesn't boost said pets' stats at all. To boost your pets stats, you need to take them to a training school (there are three) which asks for Codestones (not that easy to get ahold of depending on which stone they ask for) or Dubloons (somewhat easier to acquire).
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On August 28th 2007, the Neopian Pound closed down to perform some maintenance due to the recent conversion for customisation. It didn't reopen again until a year later, on August 29th 2008.
The pound can be used to adopt a new Neopet, transfer a Neopet to another specific owner, or abandon your Neopet for another random Neopian to pick up.
Adopting
Before you adopt a pet, please remember that all pets come without clothing, which includes paint brush clothing. You are required to earn all clothes by yourself. Also, please remember that with the new Transfer feature, you are allowed to keep any pet that you find regardless of whether or not somebody says it's theirs and that you interrupted a transfer. (If you wish to give away a pet with clothes, please read the Transferring Pets section of this guide.)
How To Adopt A Pet
Well, it's just like how you adopt a pet at the old pound... Except there's less refreshing! Take a look at the image below.
As you can see, there is a new View More Neopets link. If you wish to refresh the page, you can click on that link. (That link only refreshes the pet images and stats, not the whole page.)
To adopt a pet, before you do ANYTHING, make sure you have enough NP out. (Something like 5,000 Neopoints will do. You will most likely use less than a fifth of that, but better safe than sorry! :P) First click on the image of the pet you wish to adopt. (If you want to see more pets, hit the View More Neopets button.) If you wish to adopt a pet, click on the image of the pet and then hit the obscenely large Adopt button below the third pet. You will then receive a dialog box like the one shown below.
To adopt a pet, before you do ANYTHING, make sure you have enough NP out. (Something like 5,000 Neopoints will do. You will most likely use less than a fifth of that, but better safe than sorry! :P) First click on the image of the pet you wish to adopt. (If you want to see more pets, hit the View More Neopets button.) If you wish to adopt a pet, click on the image of the pet and then hit the obscenely large Adopt button below the third pet. You will then receive a dialog box like the one shown below.
Hit Ok. And voilĂ , you have a new pet! Note that you will have paid the Adoption Fee, which is shown above your pet. That amount was deducted from your on-hand Neopoint Amount as soon as you adopted the new pet.
Adoption Restrictions
TNT have placed certain restrictions on accounts less than 4 months old, which limits what types of Neopets can be adopted (and transferred).
Accounts less than 4 months old:
- Can only adopt Neopets coloured blue, brown, checkered, glowing, green, invisible, orange, pink, purple, red, shadow, silver, skunk, speckled, split, white and yellow.
- Can only adopt Neopets level 2 or below.
- Can only adopt Neopets that are not limited edition/restricted (except Grundos and Rukis are adoptable by <4 month accounts).
In addition, for any Neopian, no matter their account age, a Neopet must be at least 7 days old in order to transfer or abandon it.
Adoption Fees
When you adopt or transfer a pet, you are charged a certain amount of NP based on the pet's statistics. If you want to calculate what the adoption cost for a pet would be beforehand, you can do so by using our handy-dandy Pound Calculator.
Transferring
Well, this is a new feature of Pound 2.0. You are now able to transfer your pets from one account to another. However, there is a catch -- if your account is under 4 months, it is still bound by the above adoption restrictions. In addition, pets may only be transferred once per day - if you want to move a pet around for an avatar, for example, be aware that it will take more than a single day. In the event that an incoming transfer isn't accepted within 72 hours, the transfer will be cancelled and the pet will return to the sender's account.
To the relief of impatient transferrers everywhere, TNT have granted aged accounts extra monthly transfers. The table below shows how many transfers you will have according to your account age. (Note: Your transfer count resets on the first of every month.)
If your account is due to mature from one bracket into the next, you will gain any extra transfers you would be eligible for on the date your account ages up. For example, if your account turns 2 years old on the 14th of July, you will begin the month with a single transfer and will gain a second on the 14th once your account registers as being 2 years old. (Thanks to mybabymissa for confirming this for us.)
Each transfer includes 1 incoming and 1 outgoing transfer. For example, if your account is less than 24 months old, you can still do 1 incoming and 1 outgoing transfer. You can check the transfers that were accepted/rejected this month by visiting your transfer status page. By looking at the information on that page, you can count up how many incoming and outgoing transfers you have used this month. By subtracting that from the number of transfers you are granted each month (see the table below), you will be able to figure out what is remaining.
Age At Or Over... | Number of Transfers |
1 Month (0 Years) | 1 Transfer |
24 Months (2 Years) | 2 Transfers |
48 Months (4 Years) | 3 Transfers |
72 Months (6 Years) | 4 Transfers |
96 Months (8 Years) | 5 Transfers |
120 Months (10 Years) | 6 Transfers |
144 Months (12 Years) | 7 Transfers |
168 Months (14 Years) | 8 Transfers |
192 Months (16 Years) | 9 Transfers |
216 Months (18 Years) | 10 Transfers |
Another way to determine how many transfers you have is to begin the actual transfer process. If you navigate to the exchange page (where you select what Neopet you will receive from the other user), there will be a message at the top. It will read something along these lines:
'You are about to exchange PETNAME for a Neopet currently owned by OTHER USER. This will cost 1,000 NP plus the adoption fee for the Neopet and will count as your 3rd User-to-User Transfers for this month. If accepted, it will also count as OTHER USER's 4th User-to-User Transfers for this month.'
So, you can see that my blurb says this will be my third transfer this month, and my friend's fourth transfer. However, unlike the transfer status page, this does not differentiate between incoming/outgoing. As a result, this could be my third outgoing transfer but only my first incoming. The best way to keep track of your transfers is really to do so on your own, by writing it down.
Note that if your pet has a No Trade Petpet attached to it, you will be unable to transfer it until the Petpet is either removed, or is changed (via the Petpet Lab Ray) into a normal Petpet. No Trade Petpets include those found in Newbie Starter Packs and those exclusive to the Petpet Lab Ray.
What Items Are Transferred
If you transfer a pet, wearables can be transferred over to the new account (excluding NC Mall items, which cannot leave your account unless you use a gift box to send an item to another user), including any paint brush items your pet is wearing. But only one set of paint brush items will be transferred - the ones that match the pet's current paint job.
For example, if you had a Plushie Poogle that was wearing Pirate Poogle clothes (the eye patch and the stripey shirt) and you tried to transfer them, the clothes would not be transferred because Neopets doesn't recognise them as being part of the pet's current colour and so they would be taken off and put back into your closet. If, however, you had a Pirate Techo that was still wearing his little grass skirt from when he used to be an Island Techo, any of the pirate clothing he was wearing would be transferred along with him, but any clothing from past paint jobs would not and would be returned to your closet instead.
Even if you remove your pet's current paint brush clothing and leave them in your closet, they would still be transferred along with the pet. This may not be readily apparent in the pet's picture during transfer. Battledome weapons will not be transferred over but any petpet attached will be.
A Neopet will retain all of their other stats when transferred, including age, strength, hit points, intelligence, etc.
Note: If your pet is wearing clothes that can be bought in Neopian shops and you would like to transfer your pet with their clothes on, know that you are not allowed to have a user pay for a pet (all they should have to pay is the cost to adopt the pet which Neopets charges based on its level). Asking somebody to reimburse you for the cost of a pet's outfit is against the rules and is likely to get you reported, so DON'T DO IT! However it is perfectly okay to remove the pet's clothes and place them in your shop for the other user to buy.
How To Transfer A Pet
First, make sure that you have 1,000 Neopoints on-hand, then head on over to the Transferring Pets Room. If you look at the picture below, you can see that there is a button below each pet. Click on the button that is below the pet you want to transfer.
After you have selected your pet and have clicked the Transfer button, you will be shown a prompt, as depicted in the image below. Be sure to type in the username correctly, as if the user is an active user, they might just accept it (and you may be out of a pet! :/).
When you have typed in the account name (and PIN Number, if applicable), you will be shown the following screen where you will be given the option to either confirm the transfer or to trade your pet for one of the recipient's. (For trading pets, see the next section.)
Once you click on the 'Confirm Transfer' option you will be shown one of three things:
- Error: The new owner is not old enough to adopt this Neopet!
- Error: The new owner has already accepted all of their User-to-User Transfers this month!
- A new page allowing you to check your transferred pet's status. (You can click here to check your pet's status.)
After this, it's all up to the receiving user!
Note: Lutaris cannot be transferred, they do not disappear (as they do if you try to abandon them) but instead they just refuse to budge off your account.
Trading Pets
If you choose to trade pets rather than just transfer one, after you have selected which pet you want to exchange you can click on the link at the bottom where it says 'If you would like to exchange...' to be shown the pets of the person you are transferring your pet to. From there you will be able to select which of their pets you would like in return for yours, as shown in this screenie.
Once again, after clicking on the 'Exchange Neopets' option you will be shown to the screen that either says:
- Error: The new owner is not old enough to adopt this Neopet!
- A new page allowing you to check your transferred pet's status. (You can click here to check your pet's status.)
As with regular transferring of pets you will be charged 1,000 NP for the transfer, as well as however much it costs to adopt the other person's pet when they accept the swap.
How To Receive A Pet
If you are receiving the pet, you will be sent a notification on the top left navigation bar. (It's the same place where you see if you got a Neomail or a NeoFriend Request.) After you have clicked on that image/link, you will be shown the following:
You should now click on either the Robot Hissi Head or the text that says 'User-to-User Transfer Offer'. That will bring you to the page below.
Here, you get to either accept the pet or reject the pet. Note that if you accept the pet, you will have to pay the adoption fee that is shown. (In this example, it is 102 Neopoints.) You should have the Neopoints out on-hand, as this is where the Neopoints will be deducted from. When the transfer is done, you will be brought to the Quick Ref page. (Your newly transferred pet will become your Active Pet. If you wish to switch it, you can do so then by hitting the dropdown arrow and selecting Set Active.)
Other Notes On Transferring
We've received reports that accounts under four months old are subject to the same restrictions transferring pets out as they do adopting pets in.
If you offer a pet to another user in a transfer and they reject the request, your pet will remain on your account; however, this will count as you having used (one of) your outgoing transfer option(s) for that month and you will also still have to pay the 1,000 Neopoint transfer fee. The same applies if you offer a user a pet and they do not accept it within the three day deadline period. If you're the one doing the rejecting, it will not use up (one of) your incoming transfer option(s).
Abandoning
Abandoning is actually pretty simple. When you are abandoning your Neopet, any clothes and Battledome weapons that are attached will return to your closet and your inventory respectively. However, your petpet WILL go with the pet. If you wish to keep your petpet, remove it before you abandon your pet. You are allowed to abandon one pet a day from an account, although the pet must be at least 7 days old before they feel brave enough to venture into the dark recesses of the pound. The only 'catch' is that you have to be able to pay the 250 Neopoint fee when abandoning your pet. Keep in mind that you can only abandon one pet per day.
NOTE: Some pets, when abandoned, will either disappear or convert to another colour. Ice Bori will turn into a Blue Bori and Magma pets will turn Red. Any Lutari that is abandoned will mysteriously disappear, preferring to wander the blank realms of cyberspace than go near that evil Techo.
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How To Abandon A Pet
Like I said above, abandoning a pet is very simple. First, head over to the Pet Abandoning Room; if it's the first time you've ever been to this page, enjoy your new avatar as well! All you need to abandon your pet is have 250 Neopoints on-hand and be able to click the button below your pet (after typing in you PIN number, if applicable). Take a look at the image below in case you don't know what I'm talking about.
You have to click the button five times before it will abandon your pet. This feature was built in to ensure that nobody would accidentally disown their pet or disown the wrong pet by mistake. (As a side note, I recommend adding a PIN protection facility to this area of the site as well, that way if anybody manages to get their hands on your account they won't be able to abandon your beloved pets.) Once abandoned, you will be brought to your Quick Ref page.
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Visit the abandon page in the Neopian Pound.
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The Neopets site boasts 55 different species of pet for you to own; to obtain a few of them, though, you'll have to work a little bit harder than usual. In particular, getting a Krawk, a Lutari or a Draik can be a bit tricky -- so much so that we've given them their own guides. Click on the images below to be taken to a specific guide for the Krawk, the Lutari or the Draik.
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Creating A Pet On Its Day
Each species of pet has its own special day to commemorate the day that species first appeared in Neopia. On this day, TNT will usually release a bunch of items related to that pet; on Limited Edition pets' days, they may also make it possible for users to create a certain number of pets from that species. The pets are 'released' at random times throughout the day in groups of about 1,000; once they are released, the option to create one is made available at the Create a Neopet page until enough have been created for the current batch to run out.
Here is a list of the limited edition/restricted pet days. Note that TNT have also been known to release random pets for special occasions such as the site's birthday in November.
Tonu February 21st | Chomby March 22nd | Lutari April 19th | Cybunny April 27th | Hissi May 4th |
Koi May 25th | Kiko July 17th | Grundo August 24th Available to create all year around here | Poogle September 19th | Jetsam October 16th |
Ruki July 29th |
Pet days for the Neopet species in the table above will generally include a release, but it's not guaranteed, and Lutari in particular do not get released every year. There's no way of telling in advance whether TNT will decide to release any Lutari on their day, so would-be Lutari owners will just have to be extra vigilant.
Draiks and Krawks are not released on their pet days; TNT seem to want to keep the creation of these two species as a special experience. However, a glitch in the pet creation system on Draik Day in Year Eleven meant that a very small number of players were temporarily able to create Draiks in the early hours of that morning. This error was corrected within a few hours, and it's almost certain that TNT will never let this kind of mistake occur again.
Unlike the other Limited Edition pets, Tonus are also released every time the Giant Omelette is completely devoured, but only in batches of 50 at a time -- so you'll have to hurry if you want one!
On November 11, 2014, the Ruki became LE when the Vandagyre was introduced to Neopets.
How Do I Know When A LE Pet Has Been Released?
By checking the Top Neopets page, you can see how many of each pet exist in Neopia. You'll be most interested in the bottom of this page, this part:
The number in brackets is the number of pets that TNT has released; the number outside the brackets is the number of that pet which has been created (not including any pets that have been zapped by the lab ray or morphed). When a certain pet is available to be created, the number in the brackets will be higher than the number outside of it; that is your cue to run and create one while you can. However -- as you can see with the number of Cybunnies in the above screenie -- the numbers are sometimes a little bit inaccurate, and it can look like there are still pets available to be created when there aren't. The best plan is to look for a large gap (about 1000) between the two numbers before getting excited.
Other Ways To Get A Rare Pet
If you haven't managed to create a pet during its festival, or are just feeling a bit impatient, don't despair! There are alternative ways of getting your dream pet.
Magical Items
If you don't mind changing the species of one of your existing Neopets, there are plenty of items you can use to do so. The most obvious course of action is to use a Morphing Potion, which will instantly change your pet to the colour and species listed in its name (for instance, an Orange Koi Morphing Potion to produce an Orange Koi), but there are other options. If you don't mind a Mutant Neopet, or are planning to paint your new rare pet anyway, you could use a Transmogrification Potion. There are also Magical Plushies available for certain colours and species. Alternatively, the Mysterious Swirly Potion will produce a random Limited Edition pet. You can read more about how and when to use all these items here.
The Lab Ray
As well as changing your pet's colour and altering his or her stats in the battledome, the Lab Ray can also change your pet's species. Chombies, Cybunnies, Grundos, Hissies, Jetsams, Kikos, Koi, Lutari, Poogles and Tonus can all be obtained at the lab. TNT seem reluctant to confirm or deny whether your pet can be zapped into a Krawk or Draik; if it does happen, it's certainly an incredibly rare occurrence.
I have the Wooden Spoon award for a reason, you know!
Adoption and Trading
Every now and then someone will place a Limited Edition pet in the Pound to find a new home. You're welcome to adopt these homeless Neopets, but since rare species are very popular, you may have to be quick! Your account must be at least four months old to be able to adopt one of these pets (except Grundos), however. Younger accounts won't be able to see rare species in the Pound at all.
If randomly searching the Pound doesn't suit you, you might be able to find someone looking for a home for a rare pet on the Neopian Pound Neoboard. Whether you decide to adopt a foster pet or swap pets with another user, you can read more about what to do in our adoption and trading guide.
One important exception to remember is that Lutari cannot be placed in the Pound or given to any other player at all. So if you want a Lutari, you'll have to morph, zap or create your own!
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