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Virtual Pets - Adopt a Cat, Dog, Rabbit or Fish Online

Do your kids want a virtual pet, or "cyberpet"? The handheld digital pet Tamagotchi was invented in 1996 and became very popular, but now, the virtual pets can live in your computer instead!

There are several websites for children where they can adopt a pet.

Neopets.com is very popular. You can have up to four cyberpets per account, and you feed them and buy them toys, clothes and other accessories. In order to afford this, you need to earn Neopoints by trading or playing games.

Another vitual pet website is Marapets.com. Here, you can take care of a virtual pet that someone else has abandoned, or create your own, new pet. You can even send your pet to school! Marapet is a community where you can join forums or participate in contests. You can also play dress-up games with dolls.

Moshimonsters.com At Moshimonsters, you do not adopt and care for an ordinary pet like a cat, dog, fish, rabbit or monkey, but a monster! You can then get a home for your monster in Monstro City, and show it off to the world! To buy food and other stuff for you virtual monster, you need Rox, the currency of Monstro City. You can earn money by solving puzzles.

Foopets At Foopets.com, you adopt a very realistic looking abandoned cat or dog from a shelter. Some cats and dogs cost about 20 USD to adopt, but there are also a few you can adopt for free. You can play with balls or a frisbee, or feed your new pet.

At Furry Paws you adopt a virtual dog and then train, feed and show it. They have over 190 dog breeds to choose from.

In the virtual world Shidonni.com, children play with animals that they draw online - a combination of Windows Paint and a virtual pets world. You can also draw food and clothes for your pet. You can even play games with your friends.

Club Penguin is another kids community and virtual world website where you can adopt a pet or "puffle" for your penguin. Free memberships are available at Club Penguin, but in order to adopt a “puffle”, you need a subscribed membership. Read more about Club Penguin on Wikipedia.

Webkinz.com is also a virtual pet community, but in order to create an account here, you first need to buy a real, physical stuffed animal. You then get to adopt its virtual counterpart online by using the 8-character code that is included with the toy. To get money to care for your virtual Webkinz pet, you can get a job such as making hamburgers, painting fences etc. Read more about Webkinz on Cnet.com.

Webkinz stuffed toys can be purchased at Amazon.com. Below, you can see a selection of cute Webkinz:

Webkinz Valentine Monkey
Plush Stuffed Animal Emperor Dragon

Webkinz Chocolate Lab

Adopting an online pet is mostly for fun, but some people think that caring for an online animal can also be educational and help children prepare for the task and responsibility of caring for a real pet.

Another way to use online virtual worlds for kids in an educational fashion is to register for an account at Handipoints. On Handipoints, kids have to complete the chore charts that parents set up for them in order to buy cool stuff for their cyberpets.

Categories:
Virtual worlds

Written February 2, 2009

User Reviews & Comments

11/06/2009 celeste

try adoptme.com then it will take u to google then clik on adoptme.com if it dos not work please email me @ screwball1998@yahoo.com

10/18/2009 abby

i am part of foopets.com and my name is lillylover.check me out and be my friend!

10/09/2009 joshua

I am looking to buy a rabbit under the price of twenty dallars.If you have any rabbits for that price I would buy it!

08/17/2009 Emily

If you want an awsome game to play then go to www.creaturebreeder.com. If you do join visite my account *DreamDesigns* . Hope to see you there!

07/31/2009 jules

hey ppls i am 12 and am currently trying to set a record for the most virtual pets at once add my email and suggest some suggestions to me thnx :D

07/24/2009 Kevin

The idea to have virtual pets reminded me a movie "Artificial intelect", which I've recently found at torrents files search engine http://www.picktorrent.com . Maybe a child can take close to heart a virtual pet like a boy did a robot.

07/08/2009 skyler fraser

you need more games or i will tell my friends at school,daycare.and i will tell the kids i know and see and you proubly wont have much people to visit the website i love this website so much i am not going to tell maybe but my best friends will i may be able to stop them but it will be hard but remember i want you to get more games but if you dont i will join my friends losers for people who play

07/06/2009 Chloe

This isn't really a comment, it's a question. But here it is. Ahem. Is there any more websites you can put on here? That's my question. Have a good day!

06/10/2009 Alyssa

Yep!!! You just cant beat Webkinz!!!!!!!!!!!!

06/01/2009 CARRIE STEAKLEY

THE BEST THING EVER

05/31/2009 lulu

i luv animals so much aspecialy pups luv lulu

05/31/2009 lulu paraskeva from weare first school yr4

these animals r so cool dudes i luv the pups

05/23/2009 katarina

i am gooooooooooooddddddddddddd pet person i love pets i want to be a vetenarian when i grow up

05/21/2009 Mariah

i love animals ecpecialy horses and dogs and i always visit foopets.com