Happy Pets

I joined another soul sucking pet game, because I'm not wasting enough of my time.

It's frustrating because Happy Pets has been very buggy this week. I wasted a bunch of coins on breeding requests, I don't think my friends even got the requests. And adding friends only works half the time (why don't they automatically give you ever player on your friends list like Pet Society does?) Adding them is set up in a very tedious way, you have to do them one at a time, not check them off a list. So having to do it over and over is just loads of fun.

The game isn't just buggy, it's disjointed. You'll be visiting someone's house, and a box will pop up asking if you want to go another friend's house to get a cat out of a tree or something. I don't know how much xp or coins you get when you do that. I'm starting to just ignore those pop ups, and do visits more systematically like I do in Pet Society. There other things that pop up, too many of them, like reminders to send free gifts to your friends. And it has too many items for real cash, like every pet game now. I did one of the offers to earn Facebook credits, bought some shoes (I needed shoes anyway). Of course I never got the credits. I don't think it's meant to be a ripoff, just inevitable bugs since you are interfacing 3 different systems, namely Facebook, the game, and the third party company making the offer.

There's something about the tone of the game that I'm not comfortable with. Pets are treated like, well, collectible items rather than pets. I like that GoPets had a lot fewer pets per person, but you were very invested with your pets. Here you pick your starter pets from a very small selection of looks, so it's not like your starter pet is a really unique pet that will be the foundation for your little family. One of my first days playing Happy Pets, a pop up box said the police department wanted to buy my dog Raven for six hundred or so coins, and the prompt made it sound like I should be happy about this. But I found it appalling since she still had a young puppy to care for.

I do like some things about Happy Pets. They have many cute pet species, and you can adopt out pets you don't want to other players for free. You can make in game coins fairly quickly (Glovanna gave me a tip to use the laser pen to play with pets rather than the hand icon, much faster). They have some cute animations. I love how my bunny eats a carrot, and cats use the scratching post and sing. The sound of the dinos is really amusing.

I don't want a huge number of pets that will feel like a burden, but I'll stick with it for a while and see how it goes.

And then Asynjur disappeared into the world of Happy Pets, never to be seen again.............................................

Really? Did you read my review? XD

I still play Pet Society and World of Warcraft just as much, even though you'd think I'd play Happy Pets more because it's new to me. But it's so laggy, I can only stand it for so long. Even when I tell myself I want to keep at it until I get enough coins to buy a dino, I get frustrated and stop when I'm only like 1/10 of the way there.

Do you play? There are a lot of people who do not show up in the list of people I can add at all, not with the players or the non-players. I thought these people must have it blocked, but then I noticed one was posting about Happy Pets so they must play. And that friend was able to add me, even though I wasn't able to add them. Kathy, you are one of the people the game just isn't acknowledging for me one way or another. So if you play and you can add me, please do.

And the same to anyone else reading along! Those I could send friend requests to, I did. But when some of them tried to accept, the game didn't load and it didn't work. So it hasn't been easy for me to find friends!

Nope, haven't been sucked into that game yet. And after reading your review I will try not to be!

Yeah, I can't say I'd recommend it in the current state. It's hard not to invite people though, because of all the stuff you need friends for in these damn social games, LOL.

Not as laggy today, yah! But it's still losing some in game notes and breeding requests, apparently. Last week I sent people notes complimenting their pets and such, and wasted coins on some breeding requests that didn't go through.

Well, I have gotten too sucked into this after all, LOL, although I haven't quite disappeared. I'm trying not to get into every new species they add. But recently starting picking up some monkeys and butterflies from the trader, even though I'd been trying to avoid it, oh well! Currently looking for a white rabbit, and a blue and/or white female butterfly, preferably morpho.

I've been sucked in!!! I started to play recently, and now I'm into these parrots. The kitties are nice, but the parrots are so cheerful and make me happy. Asynjur's helping me get started with some of her trade parrots. I also like the chickens. Let's see how it goes.

It's fun to look for new pets to adopt, and to think about how the babies of bred pets will turn out. I'm still really new at that but it's fun for now.

Oh why oh why did I get back into Facebook games?!

Okay, I joined too... How do I make you guys neighbours??

It is pretty cute.

I'd love to help, but I don't know your name on Facebook. Are we friends? I sent you a PM here on the forum.

Yeah I need your id too so I can add you. You can pm me here if you don't want to post it.

LittleDende is on my friends list, yeah! And she's adopting one of my kitties already. =^..^=

I'm looking for a dark natural looking reindeer without a red nose, like the chestnut or gray reindeer in the store. Let me know!

I have an album of pics of pets I'm giving away on my Facebook profile, please stop by and take a look if you're playing, I add new ones all the time. Also, let me know if you want a penguin, panda, jackalope, candy cane kitty, I have or can breed those. I also raise some several other pets, too, doesn't hurt to ask!

OMG - I couldn't withstand the pics of all your cute pets - so I joined! I have no idea what I'm doing, lol. Sent out a bunch of friend requests and some food. Now what? Why is there a big hunk of ice in my house?

Anyone who wants to add me, go ahead - I'm Kathy Momtomaeghan on Facebook.

OK - the first of many questions, lol.

Will my baby grow up on it's own after the time it says (3 days) or does it need other people to "bless" it? If so, how do I get people to do that?

What's the deal with the ladder and caulk in my stuff - what do I do with those?