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Cool! I signed up. I also added Dae and stooooooph to my friend's list. My username is iMeow66 on there in case someone wants to add me.

KittyJuan wrote:Cool! I signed up. I also added Dae and stooooooph to my friend's list. My username is iMeow66 on there in case someone wants to add me.

I sent you a friend request. My name and my pets name are both Changeling.

Andy, I've found some pets are harder to "pet" than others. My little gray kitty starts purring right away! But when I visit other people's pets, with some it just doesn't seem to "take" when I pet, although if I'm persistent I can usually get it eventually. This might vary depending on your computer.

i have a weimaraner puppy. i get "reactions" from her every time i put my mouse near her, whether i'm holding it down or not, she'll tilt her head and start panting and things like that. she gives me these reactions when i am holding down the mouse too, sometimes. i just can never tell when i actually pet her because i hardly ever get the "you petted her" message in the care history box, even though she does give me a reaction.
so, i guess that even if i do get a reaction and it looks like i pet her, it doesn't always show up in the box.

kitty, how did you add me? my username on foo is stephcon, not stooooooph. it doesn't show that i have any friends, or friend requests lol

well, i think i'm already done with foopets...
i cannot get the fooboutique to work, and it has really angered me
when i click on fooboutique, the page will load and then when click on my pet at the right it freezes up and even crashed my firefox once (something that has never happened to me before...) so i'm pretty much soured on the whole thing now
grrrrrrrrrrr!

None of the Fooniverse stuff is working for me either.. But I discovered a game I already know in the arcade section, so I've been earning FooGems playing Circle the Cat. Miti sent me a wallpaper, and I've started to figure out how to decorate.. So that should keep me busy for a while.

Asynjur wrote:

KittyJuan wrote:Cool! I signed up. I also added Dae and stooooooph to my friend's list. My username is iMeow66 on there in case someone wants to add me.

I sent you a friend request. My name and my pets name are both Changeling.

Andy, I've found some pets are harder to "pet" than others. My little gray kitty starts purring right away! But when I visit other people's pets, with some it just doesn't seem to "take" when I pet, although if I'm persistent I can usually get it eventually. This might vary depending on your computer.

Siamese and Bengals are very easy to pet. The older Pokey pets are terrible! Shortkat has one that is really hard to pet, too.

Stooooooph, the boutique takes a long time to load the first time. it freezes and jerks till loaded. It's pretty much a waste anyway, since they only wear the clothing in the boutique, itself

pandas07 wrote:Stupid question:
Is foopets a flash game or does it have to be downloaded?
Also I found out there is a site called marapets...

Marapets is a crusty ripoff of Neopets...or it used to be. For a similar feel of Gopets, Pet Society does a great job with letting you spoil an interactive pet

Miticante wrote:

Asynjur wrote:

KittyJuan wrote:Cool! I signed up. I also added Dae and stooooooph to my friend's list. My username is iMeow66 on there in case someone wants to add me.

I sent you a friend request. My name and my pets name are both Changeling.

Andy, I've found some pets are harder to "pet" than others. My little gray kitty starts purring right away! But when I visit other people's pets, with some it just doesn't seem to "take" when I pet, although if I'm persistent I can usually get it eventually. This might vary depending on your computer.

Siamese and Bengals are very easy to pet. The older Pokey pets are terrible! Shortkat has one that is really hard to pet, too.

Stooooooph, the boutique takes a long time to load the first time. it freezes and jerks till loaded. It's pretty much a waste anyway, since they only wear the clothing in the boutique, itself

I'll be sending friend requests to you all today, no need to accept if you don't want to of course but I just had a look and it seems as if there is a real core of Gopets people there now!

I find all the kitties easy to pet, they greet you at the screen (if they've already been fed) and just rubbing their foreheads gets you that wonderful purry kneading action.

The key to a good Foo experience is to make sure that all have been fed and watered within the last 11-12 hours. Any longer than that, and they will stand back and stare at you until you feed and water, and you cannot get anywhere with petting or playing before the feeding, which makes sense.

I have my full quota of pets there, that's 20 after you've reached your green star which doesn't take long if you're enthusiastic about feeding and petting any pet you see I got my 20th one yesterday. When you have a lot of pets, it's not pleasant in the morning to see each one looking hungry, but you can feed and water quickly without even waiting for the pet to load fully. The trick is to click on the pet's graphic, wait for "loading" to start, and then click on the feed and water buttons -- if they "take", they will turn pale blue. You can run through the full 20 like that in just a couple of minutes, then you can have a leisurely and enjoyable play with the pets. Start again with the first one and it will greet you and enjoy petting etc. You can of course feed and water again then, the animations are cute and Foopets don't get fat

Pokeys are terrible to deal with until you know the tricks. When you know how to pet them and feed them etc, they are totally enchanting. First off, they don't greet you at the screen. A happy Pokey will be sitting in a relaxed position when you first see it if it's been fed and watered within the last 11-12 hours. You can deal with Pokey-feeding in the same way as I mention above, it works for all types of pet. So, when you get the pokey looking at you from its seated position, you can pet it -- if it freezes or disappears, just click on the camera icon and then click cancel. The pet will be back with you and ready for action, all waggy and huffy and woofy LOL. There are no pokey cats. There are 6 Pokey breeds -- three different Labs, plus a Rottie, Husky and GSD. There are Foo equivalents of all 6, but they are very different from the Pokeys.

Two types of Pokey will come to the screen if you double-click. The Pokey Husky and the Pokey GSD. That is very cute and you can pet their foreheads.

The Marley lab is rather a special type of pet, halfway between Pokey and Foo in some ways. It has the marvellous rocket-powered chase for the ball which foo removed from the original chihuahua -- if you read what older players have to say about what happened when Pokey changed to Foo, and how they changed the two small breeds forever into Foo, you will understand that there is a lot of bitterness tucked away in the Foo world, much like the GUI change in Go caused outrage, only worse because pets were actually removed at the time of the change. This is one of the reasons why I never recommend Foo to anyone who has been upset by Go.

Anyway, the Marley doesn't greet you at the screen, but it comes to the screen if you double-click just like all the foo pets do and two of the Pokeys do. It can be hard to pet effectively but always responds eventually to the forehead-rub.

As for the boutique, I never use it. I did try it at one point, but the pets are too realistic for me to enjoy dressing them. It is rather nice to be able to have several pets together and take photos of them in cute poses, but they really don't look right, not quite like the pets in the actual game. I am hopeless at the grooming game, in which anyway the pet also doesn't look right, so if anyone has problems with that I can't help alas. I don't play any of the arcade games, I know they are popular but it's just not my thing. I get my foogems, enough for my needs, by playing with pets.

If you want to build up your karma, by the way, feeding and watering other people's pets as well as your own is a very good way to go, and it doesn't deplete your gems -- each time you feed a pet, the gems go up but I haven't paid attention to how much. I just know that I feed a lot and yet I've never been out of foogems!

I jsut noticed that stoooooph is running the game in Firefox. I tried that, and from what I can tell Firefox doesn't like the game much, not sure why. It will run, but then randomly freeze, especially if you are trying any of the fooniverse stuff. Google Chrome will run it rather better, and I use that browser for some things such as sending gifts, the interface for which doesn't work quite right in my version of IE (version 7). The actual game works best, sad to say, in IE.

Sorry if that was too rambling, I need more coffee...

Andy

stooooooph wrote:
kitty, how did you add me? my username on foo is stephcon, not stooooooph. it doesn't show that i have any friends, or friend requests lol

Oh, oops! I will add you again. XD

Asynjur wrote:Miti sent me a wallpaper, and I've started to figure out how to decorate.. So that should keep me busy for a while.

I bought myself a wallpaper and it looks a lot better than the default grassy hills but most of the interior and exterior items in the store can only be bought with FooDollars. Also, what is the Purina Kitten Chow? Can you buy more toys for your pets?

KittyJuan wrote:

Asynjur wrote:Miti sent me a wallpaper, and I've started to figure out how to decorate.. So that should keep me busy for a while.

I bought myself a wallpaper and it looks a lot better than the default grassy hills but most of the interior and exterior items in the store can only be bought with FooDollars. Also, what is the Purina Kitten Chow? Can you buy more toys for your pets?

The Purina Kitten Chow is what you need to buy to feed cats. There is a dog version of chow which you would need to buy to feed the dogs. There is no choice of food. Water also needs to be kept stocked up in your game, bought from the Foomart, but it costs zero gems, just as the default background can also be bought in the foomart for zero.

You cannot buy any more interactive toys for your pet, only decorative items, I don't know if that will change.

Cats always have just a mouse, Pokeys always have just a frisbee, the other pets have different toys -- some have a ball and a frisbee, some just a ball, and most of the dogs get a chew stick or kong which doesn't register as a play item but seems to be enjoyed by the pet.

As regards the items in the foomart costing FD only, that's one of the things which is causing a stushie in the feedback at the moment. Foo have taken to releasing new items priced, often highly, in FD only. If you browse back through the Foomart though, you'll find a lot of things you can buy for foogems.

The ability to buy from other players has only been in place for a few weeks, but everyone wants foodollars so mostly you'll find that user sales are in FD, but mostly cheaper than the official Foomart.

Andy

AndyShaeff wrote:

KittyJuan wrote:

Asynjur wrote:Miti sent me a wallpaper, and I've started to figure out how to decorate.. So that should keep me busy for a while.

I bought myself a wallpaper and it looks a lot better than the default grassy hills but most of the interior and exterior items in the store can only be bought with FooDollars. Also, what is the Purina Kitten Chow? Can you buy more toys for your pets?

The Purina Kitten Chow is what you need to buy to feed cats. There is a dog version of chow which you would need to buy to feed the dogs. There is no choice of food. Water also needs to be kept stocked up in your game, bought from the Foomart, but it costs zero gems, just as the default background can also be bought in the foomart for zero.

You cannot buy any more interactive toys for your pet, only decorative items, I don't know if that will change.

Cats always have just a mouse, Pokeys always have just a frisbee, the other pets have different toys -- some have a ball and a frisbee, some just a ball, and most of the dogs get a chew stick or kong which doesn't register as a play item but seems to be enjoyed by the pet.

As regards the items in the foomart costing FD only, that's one of the things which is causing a stushie in the feedback at the moment. Foo have taken to releasing new items priced, often highly, in FD only. If you browse back through the Foomart though, you'll find a lot of things you can buy for foogems.

The ability to buy from other players has only been in place for a few weeks, but everyone wants foodollars so mostly you'll find that user sales are in FD, but mostly cheaper than the official Foomart.

Andy

Oh, I see. Thanks for typing all that information. All that you've written is really helpful! Just one more question - how do I know how much Kitten Chow and water is left?

I'm glad it helped You can tell how much chow you have by looking at the bar at the top under the Foopets banner. The water, alas, isn't shown there, but you can tell how much you have of that if you go to the Foomart, scroll down to water, it'll show how many servings you have under the price of 0 gems or dollars.

Andy

Ah, now I see it! Thanks!

Thanks for all the tips, Andy! That will make things easier.

I use Firefox and I've only had trouble with the Fooniverse so far, and it doesn't sound like it would interest me, anyway.

KittyJuan, the first several pages of the shops have lots of FooDollar items, but having looked completely through some of the shops I was eventually able to find some nice items that cost only FooGems, as Andy noted. Andy--the prices of other users seemed awfully unrealistic to me, but it only being in place a few weeks explains it--eventually people will realize no one will buy at those prices. I did find a couple bargains, though!

I think I'm going to get that expensive new tortoise shell cat--using the excuse that it's my birthday this month, LOL. I'm hoping that's the only thing I buy. Planning to keep myself in check with the notion that if I start dropping money regularly on these pet games, I'll have to deactivate my WoW for a couple months to make up for it. I prefer pay to play to the money grabbing of these pet games, though, for one thing it's easier to budget. (Although WoW just added a couple vanity pets you buy with real money, to mixed reactions--I bought one of them, couldn't pass up the cute Panda Monk, and 1/2 goes to charity if you buy it before the end of the year.) But with these pet games it's particularly alarming since they're such cute things, that kids would like to play. I found it disturbing when I went to the little cartoon bank building in Pet Society, and they wanted real money! As my husband joked, "Go to mommy's purse.."

I think i added evryone so far.Now i need to donload the desktop thingy.

It was so funny that i chose a cat and i also have a real life one.And i played with sound and they kitty wouldn't stop meowing and my rl kitty went all crazy trying to figure out where the other kitty is