Petz

Petz are the virtual pets available for adoption in the Petz series.

Petz are stored as  files in the   folder and may be moved in or out of the folder with File Explorer.

Beginning in Petz II, Petz from earlier versions of the game may be imported into later games using the Petz → Import (Game)... selection in the top menu or simply by moving their  file into the   folder with File Explorer.

Profile
All Petz have a Profile containing basic information on them that may be viewed from the Petz menu at the top of the screen.

Owner
The owner name entered during the adoption process. This can be changed under Rename Petz... in the Petz menu.

Breed
The Pet's Breed; any Petz with Mixed Breed in their lineage will always display as unknown/mixed.

Gender
Male or female; this may be changed with PetzA. Male Petz have blue Pick A Pet icons and blue borders around their Family Tree image while females have pink icons and borders.

Adopted
The Pet's adoption or birth date.

Age
The four Petz life stages are:


 * 1) Newborn
 * 2) Infant
 * 3) Puppy/Kitten
 * 4) Adult

Second-generation Petz leave their mothers and become their own individual  file when they become Puppyz and Kittenz.

Petz age from a newborn an infant at three days old, from an infant to a Puppy or KItten at five days old, from a Puppy or Kitten to an adult at nine days old and grow to their maximum adult size in three real-life weeks, assuming the game is opened each day.

Neutered/Spayed
Whether a pet is spayed (female) or neutered (male) and unable to have offspring. This can be done via the Petz menu while the Pet is not active and is not reversible without hexing or external software. Spaying and neutering can be automatically done or reversed with PetzA, although using PetzA to un-neuter unhexed Bunnyz and Pigz will not work, as these breeds do not innately have a genome in their breed file.

MatchStatus
This was a feature for use with Petz.com. The MatchStatus changes every time a Pet's profile is viewed and was used to find mates under the Petz Matchmaking feature of the website.

Pregnant
If a female Pet is pregnant or not.

Family Tree
Displays up to eight generations of Petz.

Ballz
Ballz are comprised of the base ball, an outline color and a fuzz amount.

All Petz breeds are built with the same basic ballz structure.

Addballz
Addballz are secondary ballz used for additional physical structure such as ears and jowls or longer tails. Addballz must be based off of an existing body ball and will both move and inherit along with that base ball.

Colors
Petz colors are based on a limited 256-color palette.

Only colors #10 through #149 will display textures. Only colors #10 through #69 and #90 through #129 will pass on through breeding, so second-generation Petz with unnatural colors (including the pink on Poodles) will default to white.

There are no Dogz breeds that come out of the Adoption Center orange and no Catz breeds that come out of the Adoption Center dusty, red or brown.

Linez
Not round.

Paint ballz
Paint ballz are the basis for markings like Dalmatian spots and Calico patches. They will never mutate in color unless specifically hexed to do so.

Textures
Fuzzy.

Personality
Main article: Personality values

All Petz have personality values that are largely determined by their breed. These are uniquely generated for each Pet from the Adoption Center and randomly fall within set parameters for each individual breed.

Behavior


This section should be replaced with modern discoveries about how individual Petz behave.

Sources:


 * polygonwanaland
 * RKC Petz Forum: Personality Discussion
 * Yabiko: Behavior Traits
 * reflet's .pet file breakdown

With other Petz
Petz may form friendships or antagonistic relationships with other individual Petz.

Two adult Catz or Dogz of opposite sexes can breed with each other.

With Toyz
The ways Petz interact with Toyz are determined by 37 adjectives unique to each Toy.