Pound surfing

[*princess*]

Ok, pound surfing. Wut do you think? Worth it?

[Izzy ♥]

It can be... personally, I find it a little boring but I know others who do it constantly so its up to you really :)

 

Generally the only time I really bother is to find well-named pets to lab lol The only time I've been successful in finding already painted pets in the board was when someone made a board in Charter with a list of them :P I did get three nicely named painted pets to add to my guild's adoption agency then!

[Anime]

Well, if you're after a pet it's good to pound surf a bit. I've gotten several well named pets that way before, one of them being my Purple Jetsam!

[~*MidnightMoonFiretail*~]

I barely even have time for neopets right now, doing the dailies, so for me it's out of question. :crying:

[onime_no_kai]

I never do it. I mean, I don't criticize people who do, whatever makes you happy I guess; and I know some people really enjoy adopting poor abandoned pets and taking care of them, which is cool. But I just sort of feel like it would take away a lot of what I personally find fun about the site. My own pets are special to me, I've never seen the appeal in sitting at the pound for hours trying to find a random pet just because it's painted or "rare" or something -- I'd rather create pets myself, give them names I made up for them, and put the work into painting/training/whatever so I end up with my own dream pet that I earned everything for and whose "personality" I invented from the ground up. And I really don't like the idea of putting a value on pets or treating them like a status symbol. I realize that sounds a little hypocritical given that three of the pets on my main are LE, but I honestly don't have them because I care that they're "rare", I just really like their species -- I think Hissis and Draiks are awesome-looking, the fact that they happen to be harder to get is utterly irrelevant to me. Same with color -- my goal is to paint my pets Pirate because I love the look of the Pirate pets and I want to have a pirate crew on my main, and I would still want to do it even if Pirate PB's were being handed out like Omelettes and everyone and their mother had Pirate pets. It makes me sad whenever I go to the Neoboards and see one asking how much a particular pet is "worth". Yeah, I know they're "just pixels", but they're *intended* to be treated like real pets, and that's how I feel about mine -- I'm in college and can't have pets in my apartment, so my Neopets are my pets right now. Haha...sorry, this response sorta turned into a rant, but anyway, that's my two cents and then some on the subject. :P

[m3l3ana]

I surfed the pound to get a Tonu and looked into getting a Jetsam, but it took too long and is really boring. I know people who surf the pound to get a lab rat and then put it back in the pound once it is a cool species or colour. I only wanted to get a Tonu so I can paint it Darigan for the avvie and for the same reason I wanted a Jetsam, but that is the only reasons. I like my pets and I don't like having heaps of them!!

[Anime]

When I pound surfed, I didn't do it for hours on end- In fact, I think it was all of 20 minutes and I adopted 3 pets that I really liked. Finding my Jetsam was nothing more than being at the right place at the right time. I wouldn't even suggest doing it for hours on end- That'd get boring and you could miss something.

[antiaircraft]

Well as far as the question "Is it worth it?" goes, it really depends on what you want and how good your eye is. :yes: Personally I don't pound surf as I'm pretty happy with my own pet, although it is a kind act to adopt an abandoned pet.