bentley II is my favorite pet who has become somewhat of a mascot for funfetti.

he was the first pet that i decided to naturally raise since rejoining the pc. i have a whole thread documenting my raising of him over on duke's group, and you can check it out here if you're interested.

he has quite the interesting backstory! his ancestor, bentley I, was very popular for a couple of reasons. the first being how handsome he was! a fuzzy dali with icy blue eyes, half-cream fur, and a perfectly matched cream chest patch. i gasped the day i bred him because i thought he looked absolutely stunning! i got a ton of breeding requests for him on my ww breeding service and lots of fellow pc members ended up adopting his pups.

the second reason ended up being referred to as the bentley curse. one day, on petzcord, we were talking about an odd phenomena that a bunch of us were experiencing all of a sudden. some of our new dogz would not pose for us! as we began to look further into it, we realized that all of these non-posing dogz had near 100 independence and had bentley in their family tree. i quickly checked bentley's independence value to see that it was 97. yikes! his genetics were so beautiful, yet so frustrating, and caused a plethora of terrible show dogz - haha!

bentley I was one of my favorite petz, but unfortunately, i ended up losing him in a computer crash in early 2021. this was quite heartbreaking for me, however, the incredible breeder salem came to my rescue! she surprised me and bred an almost identical second bentley! he even has the old bentley in his lineage. this was such a kind and thoughtful gift that i'll always be thankful for. i can only imagine how much time she spent breeding him for me! salem is truly such a wonderful friend ♡





one of the great things about bentley II is that he has very low independence. he loves to pose whenever i snap the camera, and has gone on to become my very first world champion (wch) with over 100 pose show points!





bentley also became my very first pet to earn his frisbee dog of excellence (fdx) and trick dog of excellence (tdx) titles! these are quite new to the community, and i absolutely love the gorgeous trophies that mouse made for them! you can learn more about these shows over on mos eisley.





bentley's favorite toy to play with is the yellow star ball. he has loved it since he was a pup! i have a fun theory that his favorite color is yellow. he seems to love all yellow toyz and clothing pieces. because of this, i ending up recoloring a bundle of toyz to yellow especially for him. they even have their internal color value changed so he can see that they are yellow!





if you head over to the downloads page here on funfetti you can snag this toy bundle for your own petz game!

finally, i'd like to share some very special pieces of art of bentley. the first one is an adorable little pixel piece done by penny. she surprised me with it when i initially lost bentley I. it was very sweet and thoughtful of her!





update: another gorgeous surprise from her on valentine's day 2022:





i also cherish this amazing illustration done by akodara. i actually have a 5x7 of it printed out and displayed on the wall above my computer.

© bunni 2022