Alright so it’s been two days and I haven’t gotten a response so I’m making this public I guess.

I was notified by someone on deviantArt that my Catkin species was being ripped off as “Katkins” on a site called verpets. basically verpets is a less known site mimicking neopets from what i can tell.

The offending images are linked below

http://www.verpets.com/iteminfo/tassel-katkin-4352
http://www.verpets.com/iteminfo/runic-katkin-4351
http://www.verpets.com/iteminfo/pat.....rk-katkin-4350

and these are some of my catkins/kittykins which I created. Keep in mind these are a closed species adoptables that I created last year.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14314695/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14696262/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14860945/

So it’s pretty obvious I’ve been ripped off, in turn I made a user and sent a ticket to the admins in hopes of getting a reply, so far I haven’t gotten word back.

All I can really do about this is wait. Someone has already benefited and made money off my idea which is really disheartening. I’ve seen this stuff happen to other people and I’ve had to deal with art theft myself in the past but this is different. My artwork itself hasn’t been pasted somewhere, someone has just created a knockoff work and named it their own which is not cool. This is still stealing intellectual property, and I hope it can be resolved soon. Thanks for reading.