I'll help you advertise this just to help. ^^

I hope you don't think I'm being mean, but as someone who has raised multiple dogs and litters of puppies -- have you thought about the kind of regular, stable income you'd need to raise a puppy?

Puppies themselves, if you buy one, certainly cost money. So does their food, basic items, and all the shots. It costs a lot more than you think to get set up, but the real kicker is that it will cost a lot more than you think to keep one healthy.

If you don't have enough money to take care of your own health, what happens when the puppy gets sick or injured? It cost me nearly a thousand when my puppy got parvo (he was too young for the vaccination) and had to be hospitalized. My adult dog cost a few hundred for a single visit when he sliced open his elbow, and still costs me a lot of money in multiple return visits simply because his breed lends him to get recurring skin problems. If you are buying a puppy, especially a pure bred, you are probably going to run into chronic health problems at some point with them as well, so you need to be prepared for that. I'm still in debt over my older dog that I had a few years ago when he had kidney cysts. Treatment cost $4000K.

I'm telling you this not to be mean, but because a lot of people on here get pets that they can't afford in the long term, and then sooner or later you see them begging for emergency commissions when their pet gets sick. If you need commissions just to buy your pet outright, then it's not right for you to get an animal with the promise that it can depend on you for lifelong. Eventually it will be the community that takes care of it for you by patronizing you with more commission money to take it to the vet.

Before you get a puppy, think about getting a job that both you and your pet can depend on to take care of both of you. Get on your feet and take care of yourself first. That's important to master before you go on to take care of a very sentient life like a dog.

Basically it's we won't have the money for the puppy before Christmas due to just moving into the new trailer and her dental work plus Christmas gifts to which I can easily cover it's just to help buffer for the dental work and she has been wanting to have a puppy for Christmas for as long as she can remember and they will be ready Christmas week so that is why she will need the money by then and she will use the money towards the dental work if she doesn't come up with enough for the puppy by then.

We have the money for the dental work we just won't have the extra puppy fee before the deadline to get the pup. If it was another couple of weeks I'd have it easy peasy the timing just sucks.

I make great money on the hour and am weeks away from making permanent where I work so once that happens I will not only get a raise but will have profit sharing to boot. We take very good care of the animals we have and they get regular vet visits as needed. Even when she was running the rattery I spent around $1,000 on a few of the rats that got sick in one month's time and it didn't hurt our income.

She said if she didn't have the money by Christmas she isn't going to worry about the puppy she just wants to help with the money I'll be spending out the next few month's where she can cuz she feels bad about the amount of money I spend on her and wants to do her part because she cannot work outside the home for reasons I won't get into but she has a lot of plans now that we are in our new place with getting a sewing machine for quilts and such and various other money making projects such a making home made soaps, lip balms and such.

I appreciate your concern please don't get me wrong hon I just wanted to make sure you understood we were not going to jeopardize the health of a beloved pet just for the sake of getting one by a certain time frame. She's already been talking to the breeder and has made them fully aware of the money status and the breeder said no problem she could get one from the next litter if things fell through.

I'm sorry for not being clear. It's not an issue of not having the money at all it's more that I won't have all of the money in time for the deadline. If it was even two weeks after what it is I'd have all the money for the puppy and the follow up with my vet. We could get the puppy by the deadline without the extra boost in commissions but then we wouldn't have the money for the follow up visit at my vet and Xander would have some very pissed off family members who are expecting DVDs and video games for Christmas.

What I meant for my dental bills was if I didn't get enough to get a puppy from the Christmas litter I'd just give the money to Xander to help with the cost of my dental work. I hate having him spend tons of money on me but I can't go out and get a job with my issues. I want a job, it's not that I don't want to work. Since I can't get a conventional job I make money using things I can do at home like making soaps, lotions, lip balms, bath salts, scrubs, etc and once I get a sewing machine I'll also be making quilts, blankets, table runners, curtains, costumes, bags, etc. I have everything I need to start the sewing projects except the machine. I tried doing it by hand and my back hated me for a week. I'll also be sculpting again once I can get to the art supply shop and get more clay.

I've grown up with dogs, cats and almost any other pet you can think of from two legs, four legs, eight legs, no legs and fins. I absolutely never buy an animal until after I've done months of research into the particular care, health issues, temperament, etc and have the money for it. We also have a separate fund set aside at all times for vet costs and my vet is also a 24/7 emergency clinic so I can get my animals in any time I need.

I had no intention of skipping my dental care in favor of getting a puppy even if I wasn't in excruciating pain. I already figured I wouldn't make enough for the puppy this run and has arranged to get a puppy from the next litter which isn't due until summer but I wanted to try since that's all I wanted this Christmas.

I'm glad you guys seem to have a plan. :)

Advertised, but there's no need for any drawing of any kind. I'm just glad to help out, and I sincerely hope it works out for y'all. We also need to start talking again, I miss talking to you and Alex all the time :\

I miss you too. I'll be online more now that we're moved and the computer is where I can work on drawings again.

That's awesome to hear, we need to catch up soon.

Yush!

Maybe this is a sign for me. I have often thought about getting my ponies commisioned. I took a quick look at your gallery and was rather pleased with your work. It would be cool to see more professional images of them, rather than those I created from the pony creator (I can't draw). This way I could get cool pictures and help someone out. I have no problem with the price, my only issue is in form of payment. I have never had a commision done before and to be honest my biggest issue is that I have tried to keep as much personal information out of my account as possible. I am serious about this commision though, so if you could reply with information on how I can pay you, that would be great. Perhaps I will have to sacrifice some secrecy for this. I only check in late at night, so don't expect any responses from me until then.

If you have a paypal account that would only show me your real name and in all honesty I never really pay attention. I think the only time I did was when I was commissioned by a guy and his name showed up as Ashley.....I hadn't known that could be a guy's name too XD

Any other form of payment I can think of would show me your name an address so that's not so good.

I figured that might be the answer. Ive heard of Paypal before, but never really looked into it. Thanks for the answer. I'll have to create an account on that soon. So onto my next set of questions. How does this work? I'm guessing that a character sheet is just like a general drawing of what the pony looks like, and that is probably all I'm looking for. But then what? Do I just give you a general description? Give you rough versions from the creator (or does that ruin the artist vision)? Sorry for all the questions but I'm new at this.

The character sheet can be one or multiple ponies, I pick the poses and it varies from sketches all the way up to full color. I can probably fit 5 - 6 drawings on one digital page, less on real paper since I can't move and resize the images. You're generally guaranteed at least one sketch, one flat or ink and one full color. There may be more full color if I have more than one picture I really want to color up completely.

As for ref you can give me a written description or a picture. I prefer pictures, especially if unusual colors are used like "Catalina blue" as opposed to more common shades of blue like slate, sky, blue and cyan. The picture usually gives me more confidence in what I'm doing because I can see exactly what is wanted. I've done written description pictures before and it's varied from "OMG that's EXACTLY what I wanted!!!" to "That looks nothing like what I asked for." while I'm left scratching my head at the latter wondering what I did that didn't match the description XD

This is my best example of a drawing done on a word description: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9291319/

Thanks again. That's good to hear, about the picture thing since my ability to decribe characters is poor. Also, yeah I would think that color thing would hold especially true for ponies since they come in almost every shade of color in existence. Luckily I do have rough versions from the pony creator that should help a lot, however I may point out some things I want changed. As for the number of ponies, I have 3 total. After reading your description I'm not sure if I should try to stick all three of them on one page or have one page for each of them. I'm not trying to be a cheap skate, I actually want whatever looks best, so that when viewing you can see each of them nicely. I hope you don't mind doing full color, because that what I want. I will try to have my paypal account set up Wednessday night. From now on I will try to communicate by private message so that I stop cluttering your journal space will all of my questions. One last one though, where do I send said pictures of my ponies? E-mail? That way I can get you what you need as soon as possible.

Listing changes is welcome. I've had people who asked me for a special cutie mark instead of the one they had from the pony creator so that's pretty routine.

On the character sheets you're guaranteed at least one full color but I won't do every drawing in full color. My individual full color commissions cost $10 if that's an easier route if you want all three characters in full color (That would be $30 total instead of $60 for three character sheets. You're welcome to either option though). If someone came in for a character sheet and wanted every drawing done in full color that would take a lot of time and if they got 5 drawings on that sheet I'd make $20 for $50 worth of work. I'm estimating that 5 pictures is the minimum I can fit on one sheet.

As an idea of price my full color commissions are $10 and flats are $5. I never offer line art or sketches as commissions on their own anymore but when I did the inks were also $5. With the character sheet you are pretty much guaranteed on full color, one flat, one ink and possibly one sketch and then whatever else I can fit on the page from those selections. It's my best price if you want multiple commissions. They would probably make pretty good reference sheets too.

Yeah email will work or if they're posted online you can just link me to them. I also have msn and skype if you have one of those you can just send me the pictures that way too.