Breeding

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 is a feature which is enabled for some pets. Those which can be bred can produce offspring of three or four varieties: Standard Alts, New Alts, Mixes, and Hybrids. Hybrids can only be obtained by breeding specific inter-species pairs. 
Breeding can be used for both discovering new alts and mixes, as well as breeding rarer species and alts for sale. 
Standard Alts are the alts that the pet can always be obtained in through hatching. For most pets, there are six possible outcomes.
New Alts are alts that can only be obtained through breeding. These are often flashy and colorful, or are patterns not normally seen on the species (i.e. tiger stripes on an Oncilla). These alts were colored by an artist and hard-coded into the system, so they will always appear the same when obtained. Before 2016 there were a seemingly random number of New Alts made for each species. Starting in 2016, newly introduced breeding pairs produce a standard of 10 New Alts. 
Mixes are a combination of the parents' colors. Any two can produce a new mix, so there are somewhat infinite colors of Mixes. Two pets of the same color can be bred to create a mix, but they will appear the same as the parents. Mixes are generated by the site for each breeding, meaning even Mixes can be bred to produce even further mixes. Try experimenting to get a specific color or pattern combination!
==Setting Up==
The breeding feature can be found under Adopt → Shop & Purchase → Breeding.
In order to breed, you will first need to create a breeding center. Your breeding center will start at Level One and can be upgraded twice. Upgrading unlocks more breeding results, but it is not known exactly what each level unlocks. On July 1, 2016, the costs to establish a breeding center were reduced.
Purchase Center - Level 1	250 ZC
Upgrade to Level 2 	500 ZC
Upgrade to Level 3 	1000 ZC
There is an unconfirmed assumption that Level One breeding can result in only standard alts, Level Two allows for results of new colors, and Level Three allows for mixed alts and hybrids.
You may have up to three nurseries, gaining one nursery each time your level increases. Each nursery can be named.
==Breeding==
To breed you will start by clicking on one of your nurseries. These can be found in the top-left corner of the breeding screen. By default, all nurseries will be called "Nursery," so renaming them is useful if you don't want to forget which nursery is used for!
You will then select whether you are breeding with ZP or ZC by using the provided drop-down menu. This is rather small and can be located beneath the cat picture. Proceed by clicking Choose Currency. If your selected nursery already contains a breeding pair, you will be brought to that screen instead. 
When you select the currency a new list will appear consisting of pets breedable with that currency. The list will only include breedable pets that you have, so if you do not own any of a species it will not show up in the list. Select which species you would like to breed and then click Choose Type. If you do not have one pet of each gender you will get an error message stating so. If this happens, go back to the currency selection screen.
You are then taken to a menu where all of the eligible pets of that breed are listed. Males are on the left and Females are on the right. If the pet can be bred with a different pet to make a hybrid, those pets will also be listed. Select one pet from each gender and then click the Breed button.
You will then be asked to confirm the breeding for the listed price.
After confirming the breeding it takes between 3 and 5 days for the pair to produce offspring. This is determined randomly, so be sure to check back often as once the egg(s) are ready you only have 24 hours to claim your eggs. If you do not claim them in time they are sent to the Abandoned Room. You can hunt for them every weekend or try posting in the forums and sometimes someone can rescue an egg for you. If you don't want to wait you can spend 3ZP on an elixir and your eggs will be ready within the next hour.
Breeding will produce between 1-4 random eggs. A hybrid is not guaranteed if you attempt to breed for one.
==Breeding List==
The following pets are breedable.
Pet 	Total Cost	Currency
Akita Dog 	1000 	ZC
Alpaca 	1000 	ZC
American Paint Horse 	500 	ZC
American Pika 	1000 	ZC
Atlantic White Spotted Octopus	1000 	ZC
Barbary Lion 	2750 	ZC
Berylline Hummingbird 	100 	ZC
Birman Cat 	500 	ZC
British Longhair Cat 	2000 	ZC
Celestial Kitsune 	400 	ZC
Chickament 	1000 	ZC
Cloud Shepherd 	10 	ZP
Cloaked Forest Cat 	1500 	ZC
Clouded Leopard 	1000 	ZC
Common Potoo 	2000 	ZC
Crested Gecko 	750 	ZC
Dreamspinner 	3000 	ZC
Eastern Pygmy Possum 	1000 	ZC
Elfling 	1000 	ZC
Emerald Tree Boa 	1000 	ZC
Fairy Pompom 	3000 	ZC
Felis Aries 	2000 	ZC
Ferret 	1000 	ZC
Firmouse 	1000 	ZC
Fluffdragon 	400 	ZC
Fortuna Dragon 	unknown 	ZP
Furfur 	500 	ZC
Galaxy Bear 	500 	ZC
Gift Grabber 	1000 	ZC
Grizzly Bear 	600 	ZC
Indian Gharial 	unknown 	ZP
Japanese Spitz 	unknown 	
Japanese Tiger 	unknown 	ZP
Labyrinth Dragon 	1000 	ZC
Lakotka 	2500 	ZC
Leopard Gecko 	50 	ZC
Llama 	1500 	ZC
Maned Wolf 	2000 	ZC
Medusa Lion 	4000 	ZC
Nebula Cat 	300 	ZC
Norwegian Forest Cat 	1000 	ZC
Norwegian Sphynx Cat 	10 	ZP
Oasis Dragon 	1000 	ZC
Oncilla 	2000 	ZC
Panther Chameleon 	500 	ZC
Pembroke Welsh Corgi 	100 	ZC
Pile Perch 	300 	ZC
Poison Dart Frog 	400 	ZC
Puptauros 	2000 	ZC
Red Kangaroo 	2000 	ZC
Red Panda 	10 	ZP
Rottweiler Dog 	500 	ZC
Samoyed Dog 	1000 	ZC
Scottish Fold Cat 	2000 	ZC
Serpentine Slitherhoof 	500 	ZC
Skincrawler 	500 	ZC
Snowkit 	1000 	ZC
Southern Flying Squirrel 	1000 	ZC
Speckled Flitty 	600 	ZC
Sphynx Cat 	1500 	ZC
Squossum 	unknown 	ZP
Standard Poodle Dog 	1000 	ZC
Tibetan Fox 	1500 	ZC
Tiger Flitty 	6 	ZP
Veiled Chameleon 	100 	ZC
Virginia Big-Eared Bat 	1000 	ZC
Witchwing 	3000 	ZC
Zvanaga 	500 	ZC
==Hybrid List==
The following hybrids can be obtained by breeding the associated pets. Parent animals can be bred in any combination, as long as one of each required animal is present. Total cost is calculated as the sum of both parents' breeding fees.
It is suspected that you may need a level 3 breeding center before you can get hybrid pets as a breeding result. Not all breedings will result in a hybrid.
Some hybrids are themselves breed-able, as indicated in the last column.
Hybrid 	Parent 1 	Parent 2 	Total Cost	Breedable
Alpama 	Alpaca 	Llama 	1250 	No
Aroma Dragon 	Labyrinth Dragon 	Oasis Dragon 	1000 ZC 	No
Blossomcluster Dragon	Labyrinth Dragon 	Oasis Dragon 	1000 ZC 	No
Fairy Corgipom 	Fairy Pompom 	Pembroke Welsh Corgi	1750 ZC 	No
Frostfur 	Gift Grabber 	Snowkit 	1000 ZC 	No
Lacilla 	Oncilla 	Lakotka 	2250 ZC 	No
Norwegian Sphynx Cat 	Norwegian Forest Cat 	Sphynx Cat 	1250 ZC 	Yes
Paradise Dragon 	Labyrinth Dragon 	Oasis Dragon 	1000 ZC 	No
Pookita 	Standard Poodle Dog 	Akita Dog 	unknown 	No
Squossum 	Southern Flying Squirrel	Eastern Pygmy Possum	unknown 	Yes
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