Claiming:Pets

General Rules: The reason we have pet claiming, though it may seem silly to some, is that in the past we have had all sorts of users claiming to have crazy absurd and over the top pets. One user claimed their character had like 4 full sized dragons living at camp with her. Claiming is simply to ensure that no pets are over the top powerful, insane, large, unrealistic or in some cases not even real animals in Greek Myths or Real Life.

Pets, especially large pets or any pet with a special ability, need to make sense and be realistic, so we will now ask that all pets be claimed first, for approval.

1. Creatures not native to Northern America need to have a reason why they are there, how they got there, and how they are able to live there, as some creatures need a very specific environment to live in that Long Island does not provide.
2. Pets larger than say, Great Dane dogs, or pets that get that large and are generally wild creatures cannot remain in the cabin past adulthood. (Obviously Pegasi, Horses, etc. would be in the stables. Things like bears, hellhounds, etc. are things that get very large, too large for the cabin, but obviously not something you'd keep in the stables. Things like that would have to be trained/tamed and kept in the forest.
3. Hellhounds can ONLY be owned by children of Thanatos or Hades, and can only stay in the cabin as very young babies, as full grown adult hellhounds can be as large as a full sized garbage truck.
4. Pets should not have absurd abilities beyond what it would normally have, for instance an empathetic connection is fine between the owner and the pet, as long as it's explained why that connection is there, but a dog that flies would not be OK.
5. Pets must be somewhat realistic, something like an extremely deadly and poisonous snake hanging around a cabin would be absurd.
6. If a claim is completely absurd and the user is unwilling to change anything or the user decides to give up, those are grounds for denying a claim.
7. If a user does not edit their claim for over 7 days, it is subject for deletion

Things Not Allowed:

1. Pets larger than horses or Pegasi can not be kept at or around camp, which pretty much means they won't be allowed on the wiki, it would have to be something in the history only.
2. Pets never have the ability for speech, outside of their normal barks/growls/mews/etc. They can not speak like people, ever, no exceptions.

This is the information that must be in the claim:

1. Type of Pet
2. Character who owns pet
3. Pet name
4. Why does the character have this pet
5. Any special abilities
6. If the pet is larger than a horse or a pegasus, the animal can not be kept at or around camp, so you need to explain where this pet is kept when you are living at camp. Also, if the animal is normally dangerous in nature, such as poisonous snakes or more wild animals such as tigers, etc. If they stay in the cabin what precautions are taken if any, etc.
   1. NOTE: It has come to my attention that user's working in pet claims have been asking on claims for even the simplest and most normal of pet where it is being kept, when it has always stated quite clearly IF the pet is LARGER than a horse or pegasus, or if the pet is dangerous in some nature like poisonous snakes or normally untamed/wild things like tigers/bears. If it is a simple pet, that most any mortal would have, birds, cats, dogs, etc., this question is not necessary. For instance, if the pet is smaller than a horse it's only logical it's with the camper in their cabin. If the pet is a horse or pegasus, it's logical that the pet is kept within the camp stables.
7. Be sure to sign your claim, please!

Claims are run by the Administrative Services Department. Please keep in mind that all of us are here voluntarily, we do not get paid to run this site. Because of this, many of us have real life responsibilities to attend to also. We promise to get to your claims as soon as possible, but badgering us will not get them looked at any sooner.

Department Head

1. Demi-hunter13

Department Administrators
These are the administrators in charge of this department in my absence.

1. KMØ
2. Waves of Wisdom

Department Members
These are the rollback users who work in this department assisting me and the administrators here.

1. Mel
2. Margaery Tyrell

Department Helpers from other Departments
These are users who can accept claims, but don't generally help out in this department on a regular basis. All members of the administration team are able to accept claims.

1. Brocky292
2. LyreOfOrpheHyus
3. Windsword7
4. Wonder
5. Hidden

Department Helpers
These are users who are not in the Administrative & Support department, but help get claims ready to be approved, so you may see them making comments to claims from time to time.

1. DrXax (Active)
2. Theawesomeperson202 (Semi-Active)
3. Nat25 (Semi-Active)
4. Music (Officially Inactive)
5. Undead Sparkz (Semi-Active)
6. Slay (Active)
7. Ash (Active)
8. Pandora (Semi-Active)