So, I have a full set of Pokemon Hellhound-themed hybrids planned, and four out of ten of them are already done as of this moment... buuuuut it's already Halloween, and there's no way I'm getting the other six finished in one day. I had planned on working on these a lot more in the past couple weeks, but holyshit, my daily job took another sharp turn that ate up all my free time.

I'm sure I've complained about it in the past, but my stupid little retail job is in a perpetual cycle of chaos. My boss was fired, so now we have a new boss, and the poor guy got the whole store literally dumped in his lap overnight because he wasn't given any warning that this would be happening. That was a couple weeks ago now, but the point is, a couple weeks out is how far out our schedules are all made in advance, so our already skeleton-bare team had to pick up ALL his extra shifts, and because he was our boss, he had the most hours and the longest shifts to pick up. SO, naturally, as the person who's been at my store the longest and therefore knows how to run everything in his absence... I got stuck with the second-largest bulk of his shifts, our new boss getting the majority, but still. I typically can only handle so many hours, so many days (I have a disability that makes it very difficult for me to work consistently), but working is all I've been doing day in, and day out. So while I'd planned to have these adopts out by today, if not before, that just didn't happen because I was called in or requested for almost all of my days off, and the rest I had to dedicate to getting errands done because when else am I gonna be able to do them? Jeeze, we're on... lemme think... store leader number five now? I think that's about right... The position is fucking cursed, they all either get fired, driven out, or demoted because the job's insufferable or impossible. You'd think a small store wouldn't be this hard to run, but it's a small corporate-owned store, so the poor store leads all get several layers of management looming over them and breathing down their necks. And even if they work 40+ hours, they can't get everything done that they're tasked with on top of being in trouble for going into overtime without permission, so they end up having to try and leave it to their keyholders (since the company basically got rid of all assistant manager positions), but the keyholders aren't paid enough to be doing the tasks of a store leader, not with how many other responsibilities they already have on their shoulders that they're never properly trained for, either! It's insane. It's all kinds of nuts. Never before have I worked retail while also having all the responsibilities of an assistant manager on my shoulders the way I do. And frankly, my current, new store leader is fighting and making a case for our store to be granted an assistant store leader position like it used to have because he wants to actually promote me to that position. And if he does, great, I'll actually start getting paid for all the extra crap I do, but our district manager definitely doesn't like me, so fat chance anything'll come of it. If I eventually get the position, I'll stick with the job, but otherwise, I'm gonna start seeking new employment because even partly working for myself like I used to as a massage therapist was fucking easier and had less responsibilities than this.

Ah well, anyway, this was mostly just for me to explain that I will absolutely be releasing some cool, spoopy doggos to adopt eventually, but I got ran over twenty times by my job workload, so I ran out of time to get these done before/by Halloween. ;; So I'm sorry they won't be ready on time. My apologies to the winter holidays, too, that I'll be encroaching on when posting them so late. But hey, at least horror designs are usually accepted all year 'round :'D Hopefully I'll have something new to feed you all sooner rather than later, so keep your eyes peeled, and thank you all for your patience <3