July 2024 ~ Player of the Month!

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July 2024 ~ Player of the Month!

🐈~BV (Melting & Lagging Behind)~🍂
July 8th, 2024 8:57:45pm
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Congratulations to our July's Player Spotlight Winner!

Kyuubi

Kyuubi (#27768), our living in paradise on HP & in Real Life with the horses friend!

...Community Chatter...

These little shout-outs come from various players, not just staff!
"They are always kind in chat and forums."
"So glad Kyuubi returned! Has amazing lined animals and love seeing updates about the real life horses!"

...Interview Questions...

Anyone who wins P.o.t.M. can answer as many or all of the questions as they want or feel comfortable answering!

~...HP Questions...~
1. How did you first learn about us?
I was playing a game called Horseisle, a buddy on the game told me about HP when we got talking about HL.

2. What is your favorite thing about HP?
That it exists

3. How long have you been playing for?
I've been actively playing for about 9.5 years, even though I have an 11-year member achievement about 2.5 years were hiatus time

4. How did you come up with your player name?
I played HL under the same name

5. What is your favorite breed of horse or dog to train?
Caucasian Ovcharka, because it's the closest I'll ever get to owning one.

6. What caused you to pick the breed(s) you train and breed?
I bred Caucasian Ovcharka's on HL, they're my only original breed.
Herbie is registered Zangersheide, so I picked them up.
Herbie's sire is a Holsteiner and Rowan is a Holsteiner, hence the Holsteiners.
I picked the Kerry Bog Pony to revive my Kiso Horses from HL in because HP didn't have Kiso Horses.
"Kyuubi" is a nine-tailed demon fox from the manga/anime Naruto, so I figured I needed a fox breed and picked Silver Foxes as a result.
(Herbie's dam is a Dutch Warmblood, the reason I picked them up and plan to revive them in the future)

7. How do you come up with names for your animals?
Apart from the Caucasian Ovcharka's which are named after monsters, items, and characters from the GameCube game "Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles" and my Silver Foxes which have a day/night theme (all males have the word "day" in their name and all females have the word "night" in their name), I'm unsure how I come up with the names, it's more of a spur of the moment. The only horses that have names waiting are ones that I have pictures waiting for, getting those pictures usually inspires names but after that, I'm actually starting to run out of name ideas ^^;

8. What are your current goals on HP?
Saving up for a project horse for my Holsteiner line right now, I'll be brining a "Rowan" dedication horse to life.

9. Do you have a favorite animal? (It can be your own or another player’s you admire!)
Chalice (#95067) - she was my first big project on HP.

11. What is your favorite Site-Wide yearly event?
Mascot Contest, I've entered it a few times

16. What do you spend most of your time on HP doing?
Training

~...Real Life & Random Questions...~
1. Where are you from?
Hawaii

3. What do you do for work?
I care for other people's horses

4. Do you own any horses or dogs?
I own two mixed-breed dogs from our local shelter, Gingeroo & Rufus
I own two horses who are 21 years apart in age, Herbie & Rowan

5. Do you have any other types of pets at home?
I have a 19-year-old cat named Wishes

7. Do you have any hobbies? If so, what are they?
Riding Herbie

8. What’s your favorite color?
Orange

12. If you could own any breed of horse, what would it be and why?
It's not really a breed of horse per se, but if I could own any horse based on color I would have a palomino pinto gelding because I've always liked that color on a horse.

13. If you could own any breed of dog, what would it be and why?
Caucasian Ovcharka because they're gorgeous dogs and I like the aspect of a livestock guard dog, but I live in the wrong climate for one.

15. If you could travel anywhere, where would you go and why?
Back to Japan to meet a Kiso Horse because on my first trip there I didn't get the chance.

18. What is the top thing on your Bucket List?
To meet a real-life Kiso Horse, I've been wanting to see them in person since I learned about them.

19. What talent do you wish you had?
I wish I could draw

20. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
Cookie Dough

21. What is something you fear?
Spiders

25. Any good movies or shows you’ve seen lately?
Lovely Runner - a Korean drama, you can watch it on Viki

26. What is your go-to show to stream? (Via Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc.)
Viki because I tend to watch Korean and Chinese dramas.

29. If you were an animal, what would you be, and why?
Horse, because my whole life literally revolves around horses and I was born in the year of the Horse.

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August's Nominees!
Farewell (#3861)
Kuwait (#1690)
Lynelle (#15247)
If you choose to message me your vote...
Include with your vote a little bit of "Community Chatter" if you'd like!
Voting Form: Clicky Here!
Voting will be open until 11:59pm HP time on Saturday July 27th!
Reminder - If you don't know any of the above, choose one to get to know better! :)

Check out the ~Player Of The Month~Hub~!
All information, nominations, voting, and previous winners can be all found there!
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*** New for 2024: Based on player feedback, Nominees are allowed to run Twice, once every 6months.
(This can obviously be adjusted if it doesn't end up working out or the likeable factor of it lessens.)