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Welcome

Hello and welcome to the Helping Paws Adoption Center Website! Click a link to the right to begin. If anything does not work or is out of place, like text not in a box, a typo, et cetera - or if you have any suggestions - please neomail lotsabots.

HPAC is looking for new members and ideas for activities, so please, if you are interested or have any ideas, tell Lotsa ( lotsabots), the owner. Also, a special thanks to Simone (tsutomu_83) for this beautiful code!

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Rules

Here are the rules that you must follow :

Please be active. If you do not post or show some sign of still being alive for a week, you will be notified. If you are not active by the end of the month, you will be deleted (you'll be free to join again, but your rank will be reset).
Additionally, new members will not receive their calendar privileges until they make their first post on the guild board and will be deleted if they do not do so within a week.
Please read this website or at least know what is here.
We are a semi-literate guild. Chatspeak is anything shortened (e.g. sum1, ttyl, brb, g2g, lol). Please try to avoid it by speaking in complete, punctuated, and capitalized sentences so that everyone can understand you.
If Elmo wouldn't like it said to him, don't say it to anyone else. In short, don't be insulting or argumentative.
Don't curse. This is a serious offence on Neopets, let alone the guild.
No romance or anything inappropriate. Anything not suitable for eight-year-olds (no offence to eight-year-olds!) is not suitable for this guild.
Also, please enable guild mailings. Just go to "My Account," then to Preferences, then check the third checkbox down.
And, although this should be obvious due to the nature of the guild, I am going to say it anyway. The guild board is not for drama! Take petty arguments elsewhere.

If any of these requests sound unreasonable, please neomail lotsabots with reasons why.

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Mission

Our goal at the Helping Paws Adoption Center is to help abandoned pets find a good home and brighten their experience getting there by giving them a loving foster home to live in while they await the day they will finally be taken into the arms of a new parent.
Additionally, we aim to prevent the degrading of pets and the treating of them as objects that has come with the new pound feature. (The treating of pets as objects extends fully to the "trading" of pets.)
Finally, we hope that this benevolence will expand to the real world and one's treatment of animals and other human beings.

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Adoptees

To adopt one of our fosters, please read How to Adopt.

PETS UP FOR ADOPTION

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How to Adopt

You don't have to be a member of the guild to adopt, so if you want to adopt a pet, you must follow the following steps:

Neomail the person fostering the pet with an application containing the following:
The status and personalities of your current pets
How long you've been on Neopets (You must be 4 Months to transfer).
Why you're trustworthy and a good owner
At least two usernames of people who will vouch that you are a good owner
Anything else you find important
Wait for their reply. The fosterer of the pet is at their own liberty to give you the pet. Do not pester him or her.
If it is yes, follow their instructions from there on out. (They will be following the instructions under the "How to Foster" and "Transferring Pets" links, so if your instructions don't match those, please neomail lotsabots!)

A simple neomail application will suffice. You don't need to get too fancy.

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How to Foster

Fostering is as optional as roleplaying in this guild, but if you want to take in a pet while you find her or him a home, here are the rules and steps to follow:

Adopt a pet from the pound. It can be any pet you want, but please don't make one.

Give them a petpet, zap them (if you have the lab ray), train them, and make them more presentable to the possible owners

After you get them to the desired phase (preferably painted or trained to a high level), submit them to Simone via neomail. (The submission should contain the pet's name, the username at which you wish to be contacted about this pet, and an optional brief description of the pet.)
Simply wait for someone to neomail you asking about the pet. Be sure not to get impatient and say yes to the first reply. Read over all applicants carefully to decide, and make sure all of them include what was asked of them in the "How to Adopt" section. Do not consider anyone with four pets or whose pets are sad (except from illness).
Once you've decided, read the section of this page on transferring pets to other accounts.

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How to Transfer

Follow these instructions when transferring a pet from one account to another:

You MUST use the transfer system in the pound.

Make sure the account you are sending the pet to has at least 1,000 Neopoints on hand, less than four Neopets and someone there to receive the pet.

Remember: You can only transfer one Neopet per month, and any adopter can only receive one Neopet per month.

Now that you've read that, set a time or day for the transfer with the person you're transferring with.

Be sure that everything is set before you begin the transfer.

You need at least 1,000 NP to pay for the transfer.

Be sure that you haven't transferred another pet that month.

Be sure that the adopter hasn't received another pet through transfer that month.

Be sure that the adopter has enough Neopoints to pay for the adoption fee.

As soon as everything's ready, send the foster into the transfer system, making sure that you type in the exact username of the adopter.

Hopefully, the adopter will be on the other end of the transfer within a day to accept the pet. The pet can stay in the transfer system for three days (during which no creations of pets or adoptions of pets can occur for either party), though this is undesirable.

If it is successful and the pet reaches a good owner, neomail Lotsa.

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Advertising

We need more chatty, active members like yourselves. So, as an incentive for you to go out and recruit, we're holding a little contest. Whoever recruits the most real members (no cheating!) wins a prize. Be sure to tell people you recruit to neomail Lotsa and tell her that you recruited her and check out the Activities Section for details!

Feel free to copy/paste one of these advertisements into any "Guildless" or "Looking for Guild" board under the Guilds board, or create your own advert (Encouraged!):

Or you could use one of our nifty buttons:

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Activities

Advertising Race
After every 10 members we gain, the top recruiter will receive a gift of appreciation.
After we get to 50 members, the top recruiter will receive a larger gift of appreciation.

Moderator: Lotsa

Guild Foster
The guild foster is a pet for all the guild to foster. His or her purpose is to be a foster for those who cannot foster a pet on their own account whether it be for financial reasons or space constraints or anything else of the sort. Any members in the guild (or outside benefactors) can send codestones, dubloons and books to the foster as well as donate neopoints to the guild till that will eventually be spent on a potion or morphing potion.
The guild will vote on what color to paint the foster as well as review the adoption applications for the foster as a whole.
Our current guild foster is: Jozeitho

Riddle
What is it that you keep only after giving it to someone else?

Neomail Lotsa if you think you know the answer.

Congratulations to everyone for answering:
What is so delicate that, when you say its name it is broken?

The answer was: silence

Scavenger Hunt
Third Place: If you're the first to guess the Neopian Land
Second Place: If you're the first to guess the section of the Land (e.g. the Castle in Meridell)
First Place: If you're the first to guess the specific part of the Land.

Moderator: Lotsa

In the freezing place you go,
You keep body low and lo,
Here you find a wooden address,
Where you'll get your themed bequests.

The last hunt question was:
Are you in the mood for an adventure?
You might find yourself in many lands,
All in the quest for another.
Nightfall brings deep darkness,
but your reward is sure to be 'smart-ness'.

Answer: Haunted Woods, Main Page, Brain Tree
Winner (1st, 2nd, and 3rd): Hope (fish_sticks_x)

Alphabet Post
Alphabet Post is a little posting game we play. Sometimes, we post alphabetically such that the first letter of someone's post is the next alphabetically to the first letter of the last person's post. For instance:
Member 1: All right, let's play "Alphabet Post" everyone!
f Member 2: Brilliant idea!
Or sometimes, we post such that the first letter of someone's post is the same as the last letter of the last person's post. For instance:
Member 1: Hey, everyone! Lets play "Alphabet Post Two!
Member 2: Okay, that sounds like a great plan!
It is a great way to add a little flavor to regular posting, and it is fairly easy to pick up and fun to play. It's not something we play constantly, but we do play it often, so, if you cant tell if we are playing it, feel free to ask!

Roleplay
When the normal chat is becoming monotonous, someone might choose to spice it up by declaring a Rolepaly Day. We may choose a plot or we may simply roleplaying out the happenings in the guild as they happen. So, if you've just adopted a new foster, have the foster, you, or your pets come in and talk about it! The setting is the neohome on the hpacdonations account . Right now, all we need is furniture, and Lotsa is working very hard on furnishing it, but with the rising prices, she could certainly use your help and would appreciate it. (Though this is completely up to you.) We'll eventually add a top floor just for the foster dorms to this neohome, but for now, we just have the one floor. Should be fun, no?

Other Activities
Charity
Petpet Adoption
Homework Helper
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Charity

Outgoing

To get supplies out to you, we have check trades and auctions where you can get items for your pets and fosters for little expense. (If there is nothing there, neomail Lotsa.)

Incoming

The longest-running program we have is our donation shop. Our HPAC Donations Shop is connected directly to our guild till.

Charity Auctions are where you can offer on various HPAC items to raise money for the guild. All proceeds to the hpacdonations Guild Till. These are events that happen occasionally when we are raising money for a specific thing.

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