Feral cats are in-game shedu imports that always come with a backstory prompt and most often with health conditions.

Often these cats are being caught, found in the wild, or are rescued from unfortunate places in life with irresponsible or cruel previous owners. Of course, there are exceptions to the rule from time to time.

How to get feral cats: 

You can order one during special sales or find one during explorations. 

Special Design Rules:

Feral shedu imports with visual health conditions both permanent and temporary allow for certain lineart edits that normally are not on the table. The main rule is: If it is listed in cat's health condition, you can depict it:

• • You can cut mane if it's part of the prompt. (or add twiggs, dreads, matted hair etc)

  • Dock tail, depict crooked jaw\legs]snaut and other deformities.

  • Add extra teeth if cat has shark mouth condition

  • Add extra toes if cat is polydactyl (polydactyl conditions can have an exact toe formula written up sometimes: fr: 6, fl: 6, hr: 7, hl; 7 = reads as front right - 6 toes, front left - 6 toes, hind right - 7 toes, hind left - 7 toes) If there is no formula - just add one extra toe to each paw.

  • You can shade the linearts if cat has malnourishment\lanky build\starved or overgrown muscles conditions

  • You can add scars and wounds if cat has them.

  • You can depict your cat chonky if it is overweight or obese.

  • You can depict matted fur, lesions and burns and so on as long as it is listed.

So basically anything and everything stated in the prompts can be depicted.
But, please, do not go way too graphic.

• • IMPORTANT! Do not depict open fractures, gouged eyes with eyeballs dangling from the eye socket. 

Do not go gore. If unsure about your idea - ask admins in the discord server or note the group.

FERAL IMPORT INFORMATION

The info provided will always contain your normal cub info (ID (will always start with letter “F” - for feral), Build, Geno, Pheno, Stats etc) and 3 additional categories:

• Permanent health condition

• Temporary health condition

• RP-Prompt

Your feral shedu import information will be posted for you in this LOG: [link]

Feral-Specific Info Categories

1. Permanent Health Conditions:

   • These health conditions will stay with your cat for life no matter what you do

   • Some conditions are genetic and inheritable (they can influence the cat’s cubs), These will be listed under permanent conditions as well as the “Health” section of your feral import initial info . 

   • Non-genetic permanent conditions will not influence cubs or breeding

   • If a condition is recurring or is not present\affecting cat’s life 24\7 and is manageable it will have a mark near it, stating “RP-prompt”. This won’t affect the cat’s performance in game, but should serve as a fun prompt to develop the cat’s story.

For example a cat that has PTSD from fire should not get a job as a firefighter sidekick cat. 

Recurring arthritis during cold weather due to trauma “RP-prompt” - Your cat still can take part in shows but you should reconsider the idea of taking them into snowy areas to compete. Etc.

• OLD AGE (SPECIAL CONDITION): A feral import might have “old or senior age” as it’s permanent condition. This indicates that the cat has entered your cattery at an advanced age. That however won’t stop from writing the backstory of the cat as flashbacks. Additionally, they can start at the ‘3 year old’ breeding age. 

BUT! If the feral get the old age condition, you can  request the cat’s age to be changed officially in the game if you’d like. That will consolidate cat’s age in-game.
If the prompt does not state the actual age - you can choose at which age you want your cat to start the game at. Cat is considered senior at age 12 and up.

If the cat has the actual age stated - that's the only age you can request the cat to be.
Remember, you can not cancel the aging request. Once done you won’t be able to make the cat young again.

If you would like to get the special age consolidated  request it with your design submission.

2. Temporary Health Conditions:

   • Temporary health conditions are those that can be treated via healing prompts (* info about these will come below).

   • IMPORTANT: You can not use your shedu (breed them or show them\compete with them) before you heal them from their temporary conditions.

   • You get your feral shedu with all of these present. The situation might be critical or mild. Gruesome or tame. It all depends on RNG and varies widely.
     However! None of the temporary prompts are actually urgent. They do not have a deadline to complete. It's all up to you. 

The only exception to this is the “pregnancy” condition.

2. • “THIS CAT IS PREGNANT”: means the cat is bearing cubs and you can get them. These mysterious litters will take up a slot in one of the breeding seasons of yours.

This is the only temporary prompt that has a “deadline”. The breeding should be requested for a roll within a year from the date of the closest breeding season available.

• If you fail to request the breeding to be rolled for you within this time, the pregnancy prompt will expire.

• No matter what type of pregnancy your queen has (surrogate or true one) it will take up one of her breeding slots (relevant for cats of sub-species with restricted slots) and will take up one year of their life (no matter the sub-species).

3 RP-prompt

• RP-prompt is a little backstory that tells you what happened with this cat before it got into your handler's hand.