Special Release Pets

Unreleased pets

What does "Unreleased/UR" mean?

Most pets are made available for a limited time, where users can adopt a random selection of a litter or outcomes. However, there are a few pets which are very special, and never get this normal release. Rather, they are created by random chance during other events. The typical unreleased (UR) pet is one which can only be obtained by very slight random chance by adopting from the advent calendar on December 18th. At no other time do these pets become available, which means they tend to be quite rare.

The other type of pet which is loosely considered "Unreleased" are the 2009 Zebras, and the White Malk dragon. They, in addition to being released on December 18th, have/had an extremely small chance of being adopted with monthly pets. The white Malk dragon had a small chance to be adopted with the monthly Malk pets, but with Malk's retirement the dragon is no longer released with monthly adopts. Zebras however still have a very small chance of coming out in monthly litters when you adopt the horses.

My Rerelease is Dated 19th/24th December

In 2009 the website went down for a large part of the day, resulting in people not being able to adopt. The box was extended until the 19th but those who did adopt on the 18th could not adopt again!

In 2011 a miscalculation was made about how many people would come online to adopt the box, resulting in almost no older pets, but only much newer and less rare pets to be released. To offset this mistake and bring more pets into circulation, another rerelease was held on 24th of December!

So far these are the only 'other' dates for the 18th! The 19th of December 2009, and the 24th of December 2011.

Rereleasing Store Pets

The "Skelebun" and "Orange Cerberus" store pets accidentally got rereleased once, but none have ever been in the rerelease box since that time. It was a mistake, and there are no plans to ever rerelease store pets as they are sold with the expectation of never being released again.

UR Pets By Year

2008

The 4 pets below made their first appearance in 2008 on the 18th of December. They have been also been re-released during the 2009 and 2010 Advent Calendars. The banana and the UR Cat were originally custom pets owned by just a few members. When released in the advent, some users deleted the banana pets believing them to be worthless, but later the rarity was revealed to be 'OMG so rare!'

((((Trying to convert these sections to tables)))

2009

The 3 pets below made their first appearance in 2009 on the 18th of December. They have also been re-released in the 2010 Advent Calendar.

UR 09 Dog

UR Purple Horse

UR Apple

2010

The 4 pets below made their first appearance in the 2010 Advent Calendar on the 18th of December. Malk had a special box during this advent calender where you had the chance to adopt her first "Unreleased/UR" pet.

UR Tiger Dog

UR Rat

UR Grapes

UR Malk Dog

2011

Ur Cucumber

Ur Lion

2012

Ur Ice Cat

UR cookie dog

Ur Flower Pot

2013

Ur Phoenix

Ur Bee

Ur holy leaf dog

2014

Ur Pineapple

Ur Bengal Cat

2015

December 18th 2015, we get another fantastic set of new UR's! The UR peach has a big growth stage of 9!

UR Peach ----------- UR Horse

2016

December 18th 2016!

UR Zonkey ----------- UR CinnaBun/Can

How do I get an "Unreleased/UR" pet and how rare are they?

The only time you can adopt an "Unreleased/UR" pet is on the 18th of December. There is a random chance that you might get one of these pets, out of several other hundred pets being released from the same box, and you are only allowed to adopt from this box twice. This makes the rarity of the "Unreleased/UR" pets 'Very Rare' and 'OMG So Rare'. They are highly sought after, and are very popular, making them quite difficult to trade for.

The Zebras

How do I get a Zebra?

While Equimagine's lines were still being released in 2009 and 2010, there was a small chance you could get a Zebra from all the horseshoes she released. All you had to do was adopt her pets and hope you were lucky enough to get one and this system is still used with Yulynh's Horses and Ponies. Users had a 1 in 40,000 chance of getting a Zebra, and they are, collectively, the rarest pets on Chicken Smoothie. The Zebras are released this way because Zebras are Tess' favorite animal, and she wants to keep them extra special. Since the retirement of Equimagine's lines, and the arrival of Yulynh's new lines, the Zebras are only being released intermittently. They have not been retired and are not under the "Unreleased/UR" class.

On June 1st 2010, there was a mix-up with the way Zebras were released, and there was a 7% higher chance of getting a Zebra. This was rectified after about 10 minutes, but there were about 14 extra Zebras adopted that month. This slightly lowered the overall rarity of the Mountains Zebra, which is the more common of the 3 Zebras. Although this isn't the only reason, the Mountains Zebra has had several rarity changes over the 2010 Advent Calendar, going down from OMG So Rare to Very Rare, then back up again. You can see all the fluctuations in the Rarity Changes Archive linked at the bottom of the thread

There are 3 Zebras. The Mountains Zebra, being the most common (but still rarer than the rarest dog), the Grevy's Zebra, and then the Mountains Zebra. And last, but by no means least, is the Plains Zebra, the rarest of the 3. I created the chart below so you can easily distinguish between them :)



Please note, the zebra's have now changed line-arts.