Almost two decades ago I was still in possession of my original neopets account. On it I had a halloween ixi that I loved soo dearly. She was my first painted pet after I got my first paint brush at the fruit machine. Unfortunately, I was a bad kid on the neoboards and that account ultimately got frozen. Some time later I find that another account is in possession of my halloween ixi! I assume my pets were just sent off to the pound when my account was frozen. Being a dumb kid I neomailed the user and begged for my neopet back, to no reply of course.
To this day that user still has my ixi. I would check on her from time to time, and eventually found that her new owner's account is now frozen too. However, she remains chained to that account. Why wasn't she sent to the pound when their account became frozen? Do I have to wait for their account to be wiped, and when it is, will she be sent to the pound or simply deleted?
In the mean time I have a new halloween ixi that shares her name (with some vowels switched around), and I occasionally search again for my original ixi and lament.