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Pride month 2026

So, so sorry for the delay, I've been dealing with some tricky health issues... However, we finally have our mini pride event in store! Everyone did super awesome on their art for this year, so we hope you enjoy!

Pride prompt

Following our previous years, you can create a piece to win an exclusive award and pet, along with about double the usual Duckies! Minimum for prompt completion is a clean fullbody with scene elements. View the prompt here!

by dragon and slug

Pride cosmetics

We have a few new cosmetics you can obtain for Duckies for the rest of the month in the theme shop!

Two new borders by fennecbug and slug! These have all of the other flag variants of the default border, and you only have to buy the border once to get them all! After this event, these won't be available until next year!

And a new theme by... a lot of us! After this event, this theme will go back to being sold for Theme Tokens. As usual feel free to report any glaring theme issues in the comments here or on the error submission page!

To make up for being 3 days late, all of this will end on July 5th rather than July 1st! Have fun and enjoy! 🌈

Character of the Week Changes

Just for fun, COTW will return to how it was back in the Toyhou.se days and only roll from a pool of submitted characters! Everyone can only submit one character per month. I will set up a form at the start of each month to submit to! For now, here are submissions for the next three weeks.

June COTW submissions

Discord sever Changes

From now on, character appraisals will be handled with their own ticket system rather than in the help channel! You may, of course, continue to submit claims on site for this if you prefer, but if you're submitting them through Discord instead, use the ticket system instead of the help channel now! It's located right below the help category.

I'll also politely suggest (but not mandate) from here on out that users solely file claims on site to get characters from the Pound transferred to them rather than asking in Discord now, as none of our new staff have access to the admin account and they are much more likely to be handed to someone who cannot help with them and get missed than before!

June Newsletter

Hi everyone! The two of us that primarily handle updates have either been experiencing health issues or general business with school and travel, and we did go on a bit of an informal "hiatus" as a result, sorry about that! We have our June news and some leftover stuff from May!

Pound Rule Updates:

• Characters won from our monthly pound raffles will no longer be allowed to be resurrenedered to the pound. They may be traded and gifted per usual, but we don't want the pound raffles to be used as an easy way to get Bubbles when they're intended to get older characters out of the pound.
  • If the character is redesigned, an exception can be made, but extremely minor redesigns with the intent to get rid of them will not pass either!
    
    
• There are no pound raffles for this month, however, following large community approval, we would like to get a Discord game we planned out a while ago started soon. This game will involve using designs from the pound. If you do not want your designs used, you may opt-out privately via this form, or comment here! Previous opt-outs are still kept privately, so you do not need to do it again if you already have. Extra information is available beneath this dropdown:
  
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  A monthly server game where users can select an old pound design to redesign, then give up to be raffled off! Duckies will be rewarded as a prize.
  
  

  To assure people are comfortable with their designs being used and that the game doesn't aim to target any particular person, we have a few rules in place that are set!
  
  

  • The designs available to be redesigned will be chosen based on date (likely no less than 6 months old), and only characters within that pool will be eligible for the game
  • Eligable designs are randomly assigned, not chosen by the artist or staff
  • Original designers of the designs will be given priority to claim their own designs
  • Redesigns can't be extremely drastic and should be easily recognizable as the original character. They should aim only to refresh the design, not to overhaul or one-up!
  • Users will not receive Bubbles for submissions.
• While not a formal rule, and not something we can enforce at the moment, we would like to openly discourage extremely low effort designs being created for the pound. In the future, we would like to create our own base for pound usage to encourage a diverse usage of unique traits, but for now, please remember to create designs in good faith rather than making extremely quick designs for Bubbles! Submissions do not have to be detailed by any means, but should be created with intent. Thank you!!

Miscellaneous:

• Due to persistent issuses staff has had with being unable to access certain sites or certain sites posing security risks, we are now only allowing the following for images linked in submissions, as we know these are what will work for our team. In particular, we would like to request people to stop linking PostImages and Catbox files, as Postimages has a lot of dangerous adverts on its site, and Catbox rarely works for many of our staff members. This is for pound and MYO submissions, prompt submissions are still only allowed to be hosted on the on-site galleries.
  
  • IMGbb (You do not need an IMGbb account to use the site.)
  • Filegarden
  • Toyhou.se
  • Sta.sh
  • Google Drive
    

• Summer borders and pets are now in rotation.
  
  
• The plastic eggs from the dailies can no longer be opened, and are now marked as collectables. They can be sold for a small amount of Duckies, or kept! We may introduce more collectables in the future.
• Transformation art of Dirtkitties now does -60% rather than -30%. This is because the previous number was too small for the site to calculate any difference on pieces without any bonuses due to the way calculations are rounded up.
  
  
• Trait adders have been reverted back to their original prices. Uncommon ones are 50 Duckies, and rare ones are 100.
  
  
• A new border by kitterbot is available to be used by all users! This can be chosen by default in your settings. It has variants for many different flags!
  
  
  • If a flag you want to see is unrepresented, you may make a comment here and it can be brought up to the artists of this + upcoming borders. Please be respectful, if I missed any in my list it was not out of malice!

Monthly Prompt:

This month's prompt is drinks! Sun's out, so it's time to cool down! Add a scene background to earn the bonus!

Upcoming:

• A small pride event will be held once again this year! This will include prompts, new collectables and a batch of adopts! This will start on the 15th.
• Breedings will open this month on the 20th!
• Summer...?

prz-3000 winner:

We got a staggering 27 entries for our raffle design, and had a blast hosting our contest! Thank you so very much to everyone who drew an entry, we really loved seeing all of your art! We're happy to announce the winner is....

Demon_Zory with one entry, how lucky!! Feel free to comment on this newsletter with your Toyhou.se username if you have one. Congratulations, and enjoy!!!

The end of easter 2026

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Welcome our new NPC, Connie! 

Accompanying Connie will be new art for the Daily Check-In and Pound, coming very soon!

We also have a dedicated page for our NPCs viewable under the World dropdown! We've been developing our world in private for a while and are interested in adding more worldbuilding lore and information in the future, so keep your eyes peeled if that's something you have interest in!

Easter Design reveals and winners

The designs for our Easter event are ready to be revealed, along with their new homes! Please remember to be respectful, do not offer trades for these if the owner hasn't stated to be okay with them. Please also remember to refrain from taking offers until the cooldown is up. Thank you!

The designs will be transferred very shortly, please hang tight!

Patchwork Lamb by sugarghosts was won by MAJESTEA!

Peachy Mint Rabbit by @v_ertabrae was won by dragoncafe!

Quilted Kitty by autumn was won by Mimixx!

Sunset Squirrel by Eobard was won by Wordsmyth!

Rainbow Plushie by @Khatoickoda was won by marred!

Watercolor Serval by gnosia was won by pawtopia!

Strawberry Jam by Sneavile was won by dropling!

Cherry Blossom by DekuJacealyFrost was won by autumn!

Early Bird by CosmiiCollie was won by bugdeer!

Lily of the Valley by doubleagent was won by kingscreek!

Painted Butterfly by dragon was won by vox!

Pastel Striped Fairy by cobain was won by skygummi!

Porcelain Pond by Cilantro was won by Demon_Zory!

Rainbow Streaked Rabbit by SweetNukeX was won by DannyRaptor!

Raffles for the three unfound eggs have been created, and can be entered via this link! The raffles are ordered as the eggs appear here. They will be rolled on Sunday, and the winners will be added to this newsletter and announced on Discord.

The final three have been rolled and revealed!

Chocolate Bunny by TorturedPoet was won by lottiesgarden!

Pastel Sweets by beez was won by Eternlty!

Friend of Nature by LillyanRiver was won by Poonie!

Thank you again to all of our wonderful artists that volunteered to make designs for this year! We had a wonderful time.

We'd like to offer a warm welcome to our new staff members, Sneavile, LillyanRiver, dragon, and kingscreek!!

Thank you all so much for all of your applications, we recieved so many!! Thank you as well to these four, we look forward to working with you!

Hello everyone! Our userbase has grown a tremendous amount over the past year, and we're extremely grateful to have such a supportive community! That being said, we're currently operating with a team with less people than we had back when our group was a quarter of the size it is now. While we're able to run decently fine, we'd like to free ourselves up and get more hands on board so we can provide events and fun stuff more frequently!

We're seeking new users in the roles of helpers and artists! We're not exactly sure the amount we'll hire, but we'll likely stick to one or two applicants from each area. You can apply for either (or even both!) positions by filling in the forms below!

Helper Applications: https://forms.gle/Eg4eV4MaMjvuTyTCA

Artist Applications: https://forms.gle/s49mG1J9KmDhk1kW7

Applications will close on May 10th. We'll need some time after that to discuss, so the new helpers will be contacted on May 13th, and publicly announced on the 15th once everyone gets situated!

P.S. Sorry this wasn't in the May Newsletter! We'll stop bombarding you with notifications soon, promise!

Hi everyone! Our news from last month was pretty late on, so we don't have a ton of updates for everyone right now. Regardless, we hope you enjoy what we have in store for this month!

DTE: PRZ-3000

We now have over 3000 Soapuppies and Dirtkitties on the masterlist!! To celebrate, a design by tfb and slug is up for a special draw-to-enter contest! Check out the information and rules on the dedicated sales post for this artistic little buddy!

Events:

Our Easter Event is still ongoing until the 5th of this month! Additionally, the second wave of Field Research is now up for plays! The rewards for the first wave can be seen on the game's page.

If you're stuck on the scavenger hunt, here's a second set of hints!

Misc.:

• kitterbot has been promoted to a helper!
  
  
• This month's prompt is Style Challenge! Try your hand at drawing your Soapuppy or Dirtkitty in the art style of a show, book, game, or anything you can think of! A bonus can be given if your piece is a fullbody!
  • To note, we are slightly changing the way we set up monthly prompts to an older way we processed them. Criteria is now included within the prompts themselves, so you will only have to make one submission to get your pet and currency, just fill in the criteria on the prompt submission as you would with Art Redemption! Please do not duplciately submit your art to Art Redemption anymore.
    
    
• A new page has been created on site to report minor site issues (such as typos, broken links, and old data). This can be found under the "Quick Links" dropdown. Please do not report these in the Discord server anymore! Thank you!
  
  
• The pound's front page has been edited for outdated and unclear information.
  
  
• The Duckies to Theme Token converter was errorneously kept in the shop after the event it was designated for, and has been removed.
  
  
• The Rusted Chest, Repaied Chest, PRZ-1000 Raffle Ticket, Cookies and Milk, PRZ-2000 Raffle Ticket, Plushie Heart, and Rainbow Heart items will be removed from the site shortly. Anything that can be sold will be sold on the user's behalf, and raffle tickets will been added into the on-site gallery of the characters they coorelate to. I would like to remove the following items soon, so please open them if you have them so as to not lose them!
  • New Year's Gift
  • Starlight Gift
  • Art Fight 2025 Choice Box
    • The Team Fossils and Team Crystals boxes will remain on site. You do not have to open those if you don't want.
  • Golden Ticket to Duckies Converter

Easter 2026

April 28th - May 5th

Hi everyone! Sorry that our event this year is a little smaller and shorter, but we hope you enjoy regardless! Many talented guest artists have created Soapuppy and Dirtkitty designs to be won by our users. Obtaining a design egg will allow you to either open it into a raffle ticket for that design and a small amount of Duckies, or sell it for the same amount of Duckies without opening it if you do not want to enter.

We also recieved reports of eggs being able to be found in the Dailies basket... That's certainly not something we were up to, but we harvested any remaining ones and put them in the prize pool for this event too! (Just how did they get there, though...?)

Onto how you can win prizes this time around!

scavenger hunt

Find some eggs around the site and open them to recieve a few Duckies and a raffle ticket to the cooresponding design! 

Eggs can be found anywhere on the site, from characters, to item entries, to settings pages! Make sure to search high and low, as there may be one where you least expect it!

The following eggs are in the roster for the hunt. (...Wait, there's only 9 eggs, but it says 10 targets! What could the 10th be?)

Start the hunt here!

Note on hints: You may provide vague hints to other members, but you cannot publicly give away locations or super specific hints (e.g. telling people exactly what/where to search)! Please do not share where eggs aren't either (e.g. "I serached xyz and it wasn't there). If you're still stuck after a few days, a second set of hints will be added to this newsletter!

Field Research

We've decided to slightly alter our guess the number format from last year! Further information is available on the game's page! However, the general premise remains of guessing for winning a mystery prize coorelating to a certain spot!

The following eggs are in the roster for this game.

That's all we have for this year. Hope you enjoy!! Please remember to be respectful. Remember these activties are not at all required and do not grant substantial enough rewards to mandate participation, they're simply here for those who would like to have fun with them!

Thank you, everyone. Enjoy, and have fun!!

Misc. April News

• Suspicous Soap bars and Pitiful Pudding cups have been reduced from 50 Bubbles to 30 Bubbles!
• The raffle winners for Ruby and Carys have been rolled!
  
  Ruby has been won by doubleagent!
  
  Carys has been won by Whisper!
• A new trait, Sculpted Gummy, is available for Dirtkitties!
  
• No pound raffles or monthly prompt this month, sorry! We hope to get back on track soon.
  • The winners of last month's pound raffles have been rolled and transferred!
• A Toyhou.se profile code for Soapuppies and Dirtkitties by @slug is currently available for free usage on the Toyhou.se admin account! Check it out here!
  

Upcoming

• Our annual charity auction batch is finished and ready to go! Keep your eyes peeled!
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Guess what! Everyone's (or at least mine) favorite time of the year is soon - Guess the Egg! The game will start in our Discord server tomorrow, April 4th, at 10:00 AM PST.

The rules are the same as our previous design guessing games, in which you will be guessing the attributes of a mystery design based on a preview item (in this case, eggs), and all the correct guessers will be thrown into a list of people to randomly draw the winner of said design from. Some of the eggs being used for this game can be seen above!

 The openings will be every two hours, and begin at 10:00 AM PST,  lasting 30 minutes each. (e.g. 10:00 - 10:30, 12:00 - 12:30, etc.) If you want to be notified of openings, grab the Server Games ping in the server!

See you there!

Hi! Staff has decided to change up art redemption criteria a bit.

For one, animation now has its own separate category! This scales per frame, or per unique layer for tweened animation. This aims to score animation more fairly. This should be used instead of the Character Art category, rather than alongside it! Just select the category and fill out your criteria as normal, then fill in the animated criteria! You also should only fill in one of these categories, not all three!

It's a bit hard to properly calculate the rates because the math has a few more layers, but you can see what falls under what on the updated Art Redemption guide.

Also, a small deduction has been added for any art of Dirtkitty transformations, this is because transformations are generally simpler in shape and color! Just be sure to mark "Is this a transformation?" on any pieces of transformations!

Feel free to let us know if anything works oddly or feels unbalanced. Thanks!

Hello everyone! We have a TON of updates for you today!

Monthly prompt

This month's prompt is caretaking. More information can be found here!

New soapuppy trait

Introducing the Foam Substance trait! This substance is thick and goopy, similar to a lather. This is  typically a solid color!

Dirtkitty overhaul

Dirtkitties have been changed to now resemble the trait system of Soapuppies! All modifier traits have become body type traits, and Chocolate Dirt has been converted into Dirt Body. Similar to Soapuppies, Dirt Body will only need to be added to trait lists if it is being used without any body types besides Material Body. 

We understand that this is a big change! Dirtkitties originally had the Chocolate Dirt and Flavored Dirt traits as indicators of their anatomy, which is being made of crushed chocolate cookies. We encountered several issues with this system and have received  a lot of feedback from our users regarding these traits. Our solution to the problems of traiting colors was ultimatley to detrait them, while still keeping the theme of the species by adding an additional feature. 

introducing flavors!

A "flavor" of a Dirtkitty is a small indicator on their masterlist entries that communicates what the dirt part of their bodies are made of. A full guide for how flavors work can be found here and on the species guide.

Areas of the site will be updated soon to include these changes.

User customs update

Monetary value of user customs can now be added to masterlist entries! Proof of transaction (screenshots of messages, a user's commission prices, etc.) needs to be provided when submitting the MYO. Past entries can be updated through our regular appraisal process. Value can only be added if the design was created as a Soapuppy/Dirtkitty custom.  

User customs will still not have the "OFC" prefix, as they are not made by our staff members.

Users are also now permitted to publicly put out advertisements for Soapuppy customs, however, we two rules surrounding this.

• The fact that the custom is not official must be disclosed in the ad.
• Which party will be providing the items neccesary for submission must be disclosed in the ad.

Have fun everyone!

misc.

• Spring pets are now in rotation.
• A new theme is purchasable in the Theme Shop!
• Our easter event is coming up soon! Be on the lookout!