Info-Gathering: Why do you keep puppies instead of chase them?

Chase Feel Mean, Am Sap,

But ok uhh, I basically breed for only two reasons: lore and/or stats, and a side breeding project. Keepers get pupsat immediately, pups I’m on the fence about I’ll have pupsat but also list on the TC/forums, and rejects either get to die unwatched for lore spice or (for the project) get yeeted immediately. Have had a surprisingly decent amount of luck selling pups (as in some have sold at all, when by the state of the market I expect a 0% return rate every single litter), but a majority get chased or are allowed to auto-leave before hitting adulthood because I don’t have space for that.

As for pricing, I don’t think I’ve ever gone higher than like… what, 35SC? I’m expecting a high-stat litter soon (400+ probably, which seems to be in decent demand) so I might kick it up to 50, but I always lower at adolescence. 10 minimum and if I feel the need to hit single-digits I’ll just go ahead and chase.

I do the thing where you keep any puppies for pup sitters. I keep any that I just like, but if I don’t have space, then I won’t keep any. Of course, puppies with desirable traits are usually sold. Assuming I didn’t choose to keep them. The vast majority of my pups are chased, or rather they die off. Once my keepers are weaned then the others I just let die off I guess. So it really depends on if the pup sitter needs the exp or not. 

Otherwise, the previous gen pups I have kept will eventually be replaced in their current roles and then sold. I’ve found it more productive to really only sell adults with some role proficiency. My first breeding male (been here since EA) was nearly 7yrs but had racked up a bunch of stats, and was fully customized. 100% scout. He sold almost right away. So have most of the adults I’ve sold lately, honestly makes me think I’m undercharging!

long story short - chase potatoes, keep any decent pups for personal use or pup sitter exp, and some pups I keep into adulthood will be sold once they can be replaced by a wolf I def want to keep. Instead of adding more unwanted puppies to the pool, I’m trying to add useful adults. 

In the past, I would keep any pups I thought people would like and sold them cheap. By cheap I mean 10-20 SC, nothing less. These would be T1 pups with 5+ markings, since I would chase anything under 4 markings. I'd let a couple pups slide if they had 4 marks that happened to look nice with each other, but that was pretty much it. I didn't really breed a lot back then so I'd sell entire litters just fine. If something made it to adolescence, they'd get chased. I don't keep teens around.

It wasn't until around December that I wasn't able to sell my pups anymore, so I just started chasing anything I didn't want to keep for myself. I couldn't even seem to sell T2 at that point, so those got the boot too. I've chased entire litters of T2 cause I didn't plan to keep any of them. I might give them a sitter for a week or so if I'm on the fence, but they seem to get kicked eventually.

Until recently, I'd been putting pups on the market just because I felt bad about chasing them - if other people buy to chase, that's fine, I just don't like doing it myself. Also, at the very beginning of my gameplay, I was optimistic about getting money for them ^^" Now I just kinda put them in there out of habit, and I keep them mostly for lore reasons.

That said, I recently decided I'd only breed my T2s, so that'll drop pup numbers for me immensely. And I know that as a new player, I liked seeing cheap T2s in the TC, so I'm planning to do the same for other new players interested in getting higher tiers. There's gotta be another person out there who's like me and wants to try to get one of every base lmao X'D

That said, by adulthood, I do chase wolves. Though that brings me to a few questions: Do chased pups ever show up while exploring (as adults)? Or do they just disappear? And do chased wolves keep their genetic background/family tree? That might determine how I do things moving forward.

Also, YES to the points about pupsitters! I try to keep my sitters in top form c:

The honest answer; pack lore/creating a story as a creative outlet and....because chasing them feels bad. 

But when you're like me and everything you breed has no value to anyone but you, chasing ends up being the only option you have. I also do try to keep pups to keep pupsitter proficiency up, but it's difficult knowing you only have so much space and eventually you have to make a decision. I do still generally end up keeping at least one pup per litter, occasionally more if it's a litter I really liked....but lately I find myself having to chase more and I'm not really thrilled about it. 

Occasionally I do wish there was more of a market for anything other that T3's, but it is what it is and the general consensus is that everything else doesn't really carry any kind of value anymore.  

I don't breed very much so generally I don't have a lot of excess pups but when it's time to start rotating my wolves around for better stat pups to train, I inevitably get more pups than I need but I don't chase them because I feel it's a waste. I have enough resources to house the extra pups so I do until they get to adulthood. Most pups I don't bother selling unless they're just absolutely AMAZING (Tier II, rare markings, high stats -- 500+) but they don't always sell because the market is sort of saturated.

For those that don't sell and most others, I'd just rather chase at adulthood so that others have a chance at finding them. For my duds (not Tier II and less than 4 markings) I chase at puphood so they DON'T go into the chase pool so as not to oversaturate the already potato saturated NBW pool. 

I love all the puppies I get too much to chase them. Even though quite a few have turned out ugly. I just can't bring myself to do it haha. I also frequently adopt puppies people don't want that are about 3 sc in the trading center because I feel bad. Silly, I know but, it's just what I like to do. I like that my pack feels like an actual pack of misfit wolves and pups that care about each other. So my reasons are mostly sentimental.

I’m a stats breeder. I don’t reproduce my females until they reach 700+ stats nowadays, unless there’s a special reason. There’s multiple months of work behind each girl. I don’t mind paying a lot in terms of studding fees in order to get high stats pups, too.

So when their birth their pups, and none are satisfying to me, well, they still have high stats (I’m talking 450+ on average), and many are tier II. So believed until recently that others could be interested.

But I also want to get some of the stud fee back, when selling. And I stubbornly refuse to sell a 450+ pup for 100sc or less. Not when there’s months of gameplay behind.

Suffise to say that I’m kinda pissed at people lowballing all wolves :)

I kinda hate the free market for that.

I don’t even want to breed my girls anymore, because it feels like a waste of sc that I will never get back, ever, if the pups didn’t get the markings I wanted them to have. At public access, I was able to sell pups between 200-750sc, even if sometimes I had to wait until their nearly reached adulthood, it’s true.

I’ve just started chasing most of my pups now, because why bother trying selling them when people sell high stats wolves for 50sc :/