Choosing a mate
If you've decided for your character to take a mate there are 3 ways you can do it. The first is to post a topic in the Mating and Young Adoption board saying that your character is open for a mate, if someone replies and you like their character for a mate then your characters will be considered mates. The second way is to pm people that you think their character is a good match for yours asking permission to be considered mates, in which case you need to both post on the Mating and Young Adoption bored(in same topic) saying that you agree to be mates. The third way is that after role-playing with another character your characters become close and you decided together to make them mates, again post in the Mating and Young Adoption board.
If you would like your own two characters to become mates simply post a topic saying that they are. This way it's easy for the staff to keep track of.
Mating
As said in the general rules this is a pg-13 site. So there will be no mating role-plays. If your characters want to have young simply post in the Mating and Young Adoption thread and have both character owners post saying they want to have offspring. The size of the litter and children's conditions are decided by the staff.