September & October 2025 ~ Player of the Month!

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September & October 2025 ~ Player of the Month!

🍂~🐈~BV~(Away! Back Oct 13th!)🍂
October 6th, 2025 9:33:45pm
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P.o.t.M. runs like our Pet of the Month Spotlight feature!
This cuts out the pressure or fear of nominating & voting.
This allows anyone who wants to participate the opportunity to do so!
Please read all the Info & How To Be Featured in the ~Player of the Month~Hub~ forum thread in the Community Announcements section of the Forums!
(If no messages received - during the last week of the month I'll go around and message someone, then message other players/staff for community chatter assistance! :D)

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Congratulations to our September & October's Player Spotlight Winner!

Farewell

Farewell (#3861), one we are happy to see again and again!

...Community Chatter...
These little shout-outs come from various players, not just staff!
"I love how kind and supportive Fare has been to me over the years"
"Fare has some wonderful lines to look up to!"
"Have you seen her graphics & code? Farewell does a fab job!"

...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?
The tale as old as time.. I was an HL player that found my way over when it started to go downhill.

2. What is your favorite thing about HP?
I have made some of my best friends here!

3. How long have you been playing for?
I started playing in June of 2009, so I have been around for a minute.

4. How did you come up with your player name?
I honestly don't remember. I think I tried one or two others before it popped into my head and it just stuck.

5. What is your favorite breed of horse or dog to train?
All of them. lol HP gives me a chance to "own" animals I never could in RL.

6. What caused you to pick the breed(s) you train and breed?
Some are close to my heart based on pets I have/had and others I just stumbled into.

7. How do you come up with names for your animals?
I have a HUGE list I keep of future names that I just find all over. I have been using ChatGPT a lot lately because you can go in and tell it something like "help name a paint horse mare with a sire named (insert name here) and dam named (insert name here)" and it will pump out 20 or so names to pick from. It is very helpful.

8. What are your current goals on HP?
One goal I had was doing the mascot contest and after all these years I finally did, and I got two runner ups! My next goal is to finally get a horse/dog on the top all time list.

9. Do you have a favorite animal? (It can be your own or another player’s you admire!)
I am very proud of my boy Weasley the Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier

10. Who’s your go-to graphic artist or coder? Are there any services you offer?
I do my own coding and graphics mostly but sometimes I get Audacity to do graphics for me. lol I do offer coding and I put up some in auctions when I can.

11. What is your favorite Site-Wide yearly event?
I love the scavenger hunt events where we have to go through every page of the game. So much fun!

12. Do you have any training or breeding tips to share?
If you can keep up with it, hand picking 10 to 15 shows one day at a time to get into the least entered shows can really boost your public training animals. Also, making sure to put each one in their own set of shows so they don't compete with each other. This has worked well for me before. And the Auto Shows can sometimes be the best to do.

13. What is your favorite Club?
I love the Western Club. I ran it there for awhile and would like to snag it again at some point.

~...Real Life & Random Questions...~
1. Where are you from?
I am from Texas but currently living in Washington State.

2. What do you do for work?
I actually just got accepted for an internship job that goes towards my degree, but I'll also be paid so that’s nice. I'll be working as a Legal Assistant.

3. Do you own any horses or dogs?
We have 4 dogs right now. Runa is a 9 year old Border Collie mix (she got to be pet of the month awhile back!), Moose the famous "Super Mutt" from my recent forum contest is a 5.5 year old Australian Cattle Dog X Jack Russell Terrier some mix (I'm actually starting a project based on his DNA results this Sunday to recreate his bloodlines until I get to him where I'll do a big project. Maybe he will be my top all time?!), Quinn is a 5 year old Cattle Dog mix, and Ruger is a 3 year old Miniature Australian Shepherd. We really like herding breeds. lol

4. Do you have any other types of pets at home?
We have one cat as well. Ciera is a black long-haired domestic and she is about 3.5 years old.

5. What are your favorite breeds of horse and dog?
I could never pick just one. Just give me all of them.

6. Do you have any hobbies? If so, what are they?
I do a lot of macramé when I'm not on HP.

7. What’s your favorite Holiday or Month?
I am a huge Halloween fan!

8. If you could own any breed of horse, what would it be and why?
I dream of owning a beautiful American Quarter Horse someday. I just love those big beefy beauties.

9. If you could own any breed of dog, what would it be and why?
My personal life goal is to have at least one of as many as I can.

10. If you could travel anywhere, where would you go and why?
My husband and I have been dreaming of a trip to Scotland for years. His family tree can be traced back to Clan MacDougall so he really wants to visit the home of his ancestors. I actually bought him one square foot of "land" in Scotland so he can call himself a "Lord".

11. What would be your dream job?
I'd love to just run some kind of dog ranch like a rescue or a boarding facility.

18. What is the top thing on your Bucket List?
Due to my recent MS diagnosis, I would love to ride a horse again just once and feel the wind on my face as we just run as fast as the horse will go. There is nothing more free than that feeling.

19. What Meme do you currently relate to? (please provide the pic link)
Clicky Here!

21. Any good movies or shows you’ve seen lately?
I recently watched Mind Hunter on Netflix. If you like Criminal Minds you will like this.

22. What is your go-to show to stream? (Via Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc.)
I have watched The Office about a million times through. It's my tradition to have it playing while making shows, breeding, ect every Sunday.

23. If you could transport yourself to any decade of past history, what would it be and why?
Maybe somewhere in the 1800s. A simple life of homesteading in the early days of America with no noise and distractions of the modern age sounds so peaceful. Though I know it really wasn't because there were a lot of dangers. lol

24. If you were an animal, what would you be, and why?
Maybe a fox or a wolf. Both are so majestic to me.

25. What tattoos, if any, do you have and why?
I have a wolf and dreamcatcher on my forearm, a little gem on my bicep, Jack Skellington's face on my ankle, and a huge side piece on my right from my ribs to my hip that is a beautiful Texas desert scene inside a filigree picture frame. (I have pics) lol

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