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Kacheek Day Roundup

Time to celebrate Kacheeks! Here's what's new for this flower-loving Neopet:


Polka Dot

If you plan on creating a Polka Dot Kacheek, check out our Modeling page, as we'll need your help!

Over at Unis Clothing, a new Cute Kacheek outfit is available:



And last but not least, Plushie Palace has a new plushie featuring the shopkeeper from the General Store:

There are 62 comments below. Add yours!

Anyone know what that, uh, Polka Dot Kacheek is based off of?
by dave on January 29, 2025 3:49 PM NST JN Staff
It looks a little like an African painted dog but wouldn't be 100% on that
Honestly thought it was spotted first not polka dot
by xing_darcie on January 29, 2025 3:54 PM NST
Wow, most disappointing pet day in a good while, especially for such a popular species.
Outfit is cute though.
by biediep on January 29, 2025 3:55 PM NST
@dave: I believe it's based on the African painted/wild dog.

I want to like it, but the way the white spots are just... to defined, I guess? It looks like little portals are opening up on the Kacheek's body.
by eleanorrigby on January 29, 2025 3:56 PM NST
we got robbed of an actual polka dot kacheek, this color could have been wearable tbh

I like the cute kacheek outfit tho
by galaxyeyes on January 29, 2025 3:58 PM NST
@xing_darcie @eleanorrigby: That sounds way more right than our staff guesses of "roasted marshmallow" or "mouldy cheese"!

Neat idea, but kinda disappointing if you were waiting for a Polka Dot Kacheek prior to this. It's not quite fitting the regular Polka Dot theme.
by dave on January 29, 2025 3:59 PM NST JN Staff
@eleanorrigby I know what u mean, it reminds me of the holes in burning paper or film reels
by galaxyeyes on January 29, 2025 4:00 PM NST
Pretty sure it's supposed to be an African Spotted Dog, especially given the similarity to the Spotted Lupe.

But like the Polka Dot Kau it's.... not actually polka dot. Innovation has its place, but it's a bit disappointing when it feels kind of shoehorned in. The Ruki is a good example of how Polka Dot can be done with a twist, IMO.
by suzuka on January 29, 2025 4:02 PM NST JN Staff
Help why does it look mouldy???
by kodiakbermun on January 29, 2025 4:02 PM NST
outfit is kinda cute, but polka dot to me looks like when a paper is burning slowly without flames? getting brown then black and the white "holes" already burned through? idk it's weird
by lucen on January 29, 2025 4:03 PM NST
Outfit is ADORBS! ❤️ Plushie is sweet! 😊

I don't have any displayable fan-designs of missing Kacheek colour combos.

The Polka Dot colour is halfway finished! 👏😄
by 1jediboy on January 29, 2025 4:11 PM NST
That outfit is the cutest thing ever!
by gumdrops on January 29, 2025 4:19 PM NST
Hello Kitty Kacheek! The reason is because of her being 51.
by kacheekfan96 on January 29, 2025 4:30 PM NST
I love the outfit, obviously inspired by Hello Kitty.

The color though. It’s definitely based on the African Wild Dog like the Spotted Lupe, but I don’t really think it suits the Kacheek or Polka Dot color theme.
by cat on January 29, 2025 4:46 PM NST
Oh no that poor diseased cat who let it out of the shelter
by portmaw on January 29, 2025 4:56 PM NST
they should revise this "polka dot" (lol) and make it a "bodypaint" wearable. and then y'know actually release a color that's.... polka dot...

i mean c'mon.... i guess this artist also refers to leopards and cheetahs as polka dotted. XD lmao. which sounds acceptable for a young grade-schooler maybe, but you should know the difference as an adult...
by inkpot on January 29, 2025 5:18 PM NST
Er, I think it would have been better if they did a traditional "Polka Dot". While a African Painted Dog makes sense for the Spotted color as seen on the Spotted Lupe, I don't think it quite works for Polka Dot. Also, we have the Spotted Lupe based on the African Painted Dog, we didn't need another one (infact I kind of thought at first it was based on a calico cat, but then I remembered the Striped Kacheek was one).

Too late now, but if it were up to me and it MUST be based on something, I would have done one of the following:

1. The Kacheek's general shape always leaned more feline to me than canine, and there's plenty of cat species with dotted fur.
2. I can also see the argument for a rodent like squirrel or chipmunk, which also has a good candidate: the Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel.
3. And entering the realms of fiction, I remember there being a few Dr. Seuss books which featured a character called "Spot the Leapord", most notably one called "Put Me In The Zoo". In that book Spot, a yellow leopard whose body is covered in many red spots, wants to be put in the zoo to show everyone all the neat tricks he can do with his spots; Spot is able to not only change the size and remove his spots but also change their colors. Infact most covers of "Put Me In The Zoo" shows Spot in his rainbow spotted form. Now, despite being a leopard, Spot's design is pretty streamlined that he could be any stylized quadruped mammal. Thus, I wouldn't suggest this for a Polka Dot Kougra... BUT Polka Dot Kacheek? Make it's base design yellow, have the Polka Dots be slightly bigger and multicolored (with maybe more reds as that is the default color of Spot's spots), and I think that would make for a decent Polka Dot Kacheek that both fits with the traditional style but also references a character (albeit an obscure one).
by pikachu315111 on January 29, 2025 5:35 PM NST
I am so sorry but that Kacheek is moldy I think we need a new one
by katie2510 on January 29, 2025 5:46 PM NST
What an interesting color. Now, I do like it because the fur color reminds me of another animal. I know people are saying African Painted Dog, but I feel like I've seen this color on a Mustelidae. However... I feel like this color should have been Spotted, not Polka-Dot, since Spotted has some of the unique colors. (I know Kacheek already has Spotted, though.)

The Hello Kitty outfit is cute, though.
by powerwingamber on January 29, 2025 6:08 PM NST
I absolutely LOVE the outfit - But the new paint is .. eek
by pinkgatmon on January 29, 2025 6:22 PM NST
I think we might have a tyrannian chomby situation on our hands
by xxhopexx on January 29, 2025 6:24 PM NST
Kacheek is my favorite pet. I have several. This is SUCH A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT. Wow. I have no words.
by neolodgeism on January 29, 2025 6:29 PM NST
Kacheek is my favorite neopet and polka dot is my favorite color, so I was looking forward to this moment but THIS being the result is a big disappointment for me it feels like I’m living in a horror movie
by sabrinatheecarpenter on January 29, 2025 6:47 PM NST
They did her so dirty
by cornflakes on January 29, 2025 7:04 PM NST
@sabrinatheecarpenter - I totally agree, polka dot is a color I love and was looking forward to. This is not it.
by neolodgeism on January 29, 2025 7:09 PM NST
I really don't like TNT's trend of releasing consistent looks for a colour, then randomly deciding to soil the bed with something entirely out of left field. Make these things wearables, for crying out loud. The polka dot Ruki is the only one that's bearable because it still actually has polka dots.
by sakaarson on January 29, 2025 7:14 PM NST
Oh no my shayla
by mousey321 on January 29, 2025 7:32 PM NST
Laughing about the general store plushie. TNT knows the chosen item we all buy from there for quest log
by nightshadeswiftswing on January 29, 2025 7:46 PM NST
Outfit is adorable. Colour would've been great if it had been part of a new pb called "Moldy Paint Brush". Awful for Polka Dot as is.
by thesign2 on January 29, 2025 8:05 PM NST
Seems like the artist confused spotted with polka dot?????? But there's already a spotted Kacheek......
by mooglequeen on January 29, 2025 9:10 PM NST
Like i already say, this kacheek is just using the spotted lupe skin
by marduk on January 29, 2025 9:29 PM NST
TNT hates Kacheeks and proves it again.
by cassiethepirate on January 29, 2025 10:38 PM NST
Oh Hello Kitty outfit! I wish the whiskers were universal. I have a Hello Kitty custom for my Wocky (Haroukiti), but without the whiskers.
by stormmonarch on January 29, 2025 10:57 PM NST
Yeah, that's not Polka Dot, as everyone seems to agree on. Not bad as a colour, but don't call it Polka Dot if it's not Polka Dot..

And that's a totally adorable Musti outfit! ... What? Hello Kitty? Never heard of that
by apophis324 on January 30, 2025 12:17 AM NST
...Meh.
by sinthr on January 30, 2025 12:28 AM NST
@nightshadeswiftswing ikr?! I love the plushie. The outfit is great too, I like the trend of outfits based on pop characters.

About the color, I have to agree on everyone, it's not polka dot. Also I don't think it's an african painted dog, why would they do it for a kacheek?? It's probably some kind of rodent or feline, but poorly done making it hard to identify. To me it looks like dirt, with some sand and white rocks scattered around.
by kirisame on January 30, 2025 1:09 AM NST
I'm sorry, but the color looks like a disease. It's just terrible.
by snoooopy445 on January 30, 2025 3:30 AM NST
I've been looking forward to getting a new Kacheek color for MONTHS now... oof I'm so disappointed, Kacheeks are so cute, it should be so hard to go wrong with a new color for them, what HAPPENED
by psychedahlia on January 30, 2025 5:45 AM NST
I like how literally nobody can agree what this thing is supposed to resemble so people are calling it moldy.
by problematicperiplum on January 30, 2025 5:59 AM NST
that kacheek looks like it went through a series of bombings!
by snudycaisu on January 30, 2025 6:01 AM NST
hmm well i don't think the new kacheek looks bad per se (it was immediately recognizable to me as a painted dog anyways) but yeah kind of a dubious choice for polka dot? especially when we already have the spotted lupe, which is executed much better and on far more appropriate species/color x_x
by baggy on January 30, 2025 6:06 AM NST
the body doesnt look so bad to me, its the face that I don't understand. put a few freckles/speckles on the face and call it a day. But instead it looks like it just came out of a fire
by snudycaisu on January 30, 2025 6:08 AM NST
Not Polka Dot.

Polka Dot uses round dots in a regular pattern. Period.

This is spotted not polka-dotted.
by faellie_ridiculous on January 30, 2025 7:14 AM NST
So all the other pets get super cute pastel and colorful patterns for Polka Dot and Kacheek gets ...... this?
by miss__lupey__ on January 30, 2025 7:14 AM NST
This is pretty terrible. I'd go so far as to say it warrants an entire redo like the Tyrannian Chomby.
by jchunli on January 30, 2025 7:25 AM NST
They should've left that color to the Lupe and only Lupe. This looks atrocious.
by hugsandtugsbear2 on January 30, 2025 8:18 AM NST
Gross. Like the outfit though. Definitely in no way is that polka dot.
by debgil on January 30, 2025 9:10 AM NST
The outfit is cute as is the shopkeeper plushie.

But that color is horrid. Looks more like film that has begun to melt or grow mold. I, too, was hoping for a nice pastel/colorful polka dot pattern rather than a color that definitely is better done as the Spotted Lupe.
by kirin on January 30, 2025 9:36 AM NST
This is like the opposite of the polkadot ruki (it’s very bad)
by mr_restocker on January 30, 2025 9:43 AM NST
The colour looks like molding swiss cheese
by rosemary2713 on January 30, 2025 10:22 AM NST
A Hello Kitty outfit AND a marbled polecat look for Kacheeks?! Hello am I dreaming?!!! I love this!!!!

I'm sorry to see so many people seem to hate the new colour. I'm very certain it's based on the marbled polecat, which is one of my favorite animals!
by teratoma on January 30, 2025 10:51 AM NST
Polka dot just looks dirty
by chocolatjellopudding on January 30, 2025 10:55 AM NST
Doesn’t look like a marbled polecat or African wild dog to me. All I see is mold. No matter what it’s supposed to be, it looks bad.
by nobolo on January 30, 2025 10:55 AM NST
bruh
by sophmcgoph on January 30, 2025 12:02 PM NST
African painted dog was my first thought. I think it's kind of cute! I'm not big into kacheeks anymore (I loved them in high school and still have a disco one on one of my side accounts) but it's cute.
by meepydom on January 30, 2025 5:21 PM NST
Sorry, but my first thought was leprosy.
by nobody on January 30, 2025 10:38 PM NST
polka dot looks cool
by freezy on January 31, 2025 2:17 PM NST


Kacheeks deserved better than this.
by keesa on February 1, 2025 5:52 PM NST
Not getting marbled polecat from this, pictures of those show them all with black bellies, and the spotting pattern doesn't match very well.
by abh_girl on February 2, 2025 7:53 PM NST
I love the Polka Dot Kacheek!! Can't wait to get one myself.
by rebecca on February 2, 2025 11:47 PM NST
Gross. Not a bad concept, but I wish a competent artist did it, like the spotted Lupe. Maybe if the colour they were going for was 'diseased' this would be passable but it's certainly not polka dot.
by baka on February 3, 2025 12:51 AM NST
mold kacheek............
by sentehisshou on February 3, 2025 9:01 AM NST

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