Free Adoption Rules

If you want to find some free pets, or have some extra pets/items to give away, you should check out the [url=http://www.chickensmoothie.com/Forum/viewforum.php?f=22]Free Adoptions[/url] Board. But make sure you follow these rules before posting in there.

Asking other players for free pets

The [url=http://www.chickensmoothie.com/Forum/viewforum.php?f=22]Free Adoptions Board[/url] is the only place where you should be looking for free pets or items. You are not allowed to randomly contact players to ask for free pets or items, unless those players have said they have free stuff to give away. Otherwise you risk annoying other players by assuming they don't really want their pets, or that their collection is somehow less important than yours.

General Adoption Board Rules

[b]1. Only make a topic in the Free Adoptions board if you have pets or items that you're giving away for free.[/b] [b]2. Don't make topics asking for free pets or items.[/b] If you want free stuff then browse the other topics in that board. [b]3. If you require people to visit another website or click something to get a pet then this is not considered a free adoption.[/b] You should post these requests in the [url=http://www.chickensmoothie.com/Forum/viewforum.php?f=11]"Other Websites"[/url] Board. [b]4. Be careful to follow the adoption rules of the player giving things away.[/b] Don't ask or beg for pets or items which aren't offered as part of their free giveaway.

[b]When all pets are gone, please change the topic title to 'CLOSED - Please Delete'[/b] so that people stop sending you new offers and mods will know they can remove the topic.

Adoption Centers

[b][color=#0040BF]If you want to help out other players by opening an adoption center, you first must read and follow these rules.[/color][/b]

[b]1. Don't create topics asking for donations before anything can be adopted yet. [/b]If you don't have enough pets to open an adoption center with, then don't open one. [b]2. If you're taking donations, you must be willing to accept ALL unwanted pets.[/b] You can't just collect a certain outcome or species. [b]3. You can't force users to donate when they are adopting.[/b] Donations must be optional, or else your topic belongs in the trade boards, since your pets aren't really free to adopt. [b]4. Any donations received MUST be given away for free in your adoption center. You can't keep any donations for your own personal collection/trades.[/b] If you don't want to continue with your adoption center, send donated pets back to their original owners or send them to the Pound.

[b]If you decide to close your adoption center, you must either:[/b]

• continue to give away the remaining pets until you run out OR
• donate all of the remaining pets in the adoption center to the Pound or another adoption center.

Raffles & Lotteries

[b]If you want to give pets away in a 'raffle' format, you can't charge for tickets or entry fees.[/b] This is a free adoptions board. You must let people enter raffles for free. Explain clearly what people can win, and how they can win it (e.g. let them guess what number you're thinking of) You can take donations to add to the prize pool, but the donating has to be optional and you can't give the donators any benefits or a higher chance of winning.

Other

[b]Do not create topics offering a prize to the person who makes the most posts, or reaches a certain number of posts.[/b] These topics just encourage pointless spam, which we don't want.

[b]Don't make topics where posters must "gift the person above them".[/b] Unfortunately these topics don't always work out, as some posters fail to send any gifts.