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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

07/05/2010 Rachel Lynn H.

Go with http://www.dogdayzz.com and http://www.k9-game.com They are the best of the dog sims, Go Pets was a good online dog sim but apparently they are no longer available. Mutt-z will be coming soon too, that's a good one too.

06/30/2010 gabby

i have 19 animal accounts on diffrent sites

06/14/2010 Annie

Go to www.adoptme.com if your an animal lover, or foopets.com! My user name on foopets is number1dogfan, so become a friend! My little sisters is Pannieannie so become friends with her too! Have fun on adoptme!

06/13/2010 Katie

I am sooooooo tired of sites that let you get started and then make you BUY,BUY,BUY!I need a totaly FREE website with an interactive pet not some pet you can print out or doesn't move. PLEASE GIVE ME A SITE!!!!!!! :( ;^

06/10/2010 Montanna Luce

if u love pets get a foopet thier sooooooooooooooo much fun just go to www.foopets.com and start and youll love it

06/08/2010 hannah

as though i'm an animal freak, but sometimes i get a little scared in real life, so virtual pets are the best in lifr!! these help me to train my very own dog and how to care for it!! i just hope there are more virtual pets websites...anyone got??

05/09/2010 allison

i think playing adopting pet games are fun on foo pets it is like you are taking care of a real dog or cat

04/12/2010 tosca

yeah i like animals too that is exsactly why i made a foopet & plus 1 of my faviorite animals r hourses

04/02/2010 Mariya

Hi everyone i love animals but the only is to take care of them anyways if you have any realistic pet games please send it to mariya.james72@gmail.com

03/21/2010 Webkinz Forevea

Hello, I just go gaga for animals!I love animals!! hey I'm gonna tell you a bit about myself: Well first,I know PRACTICALLY everything about animals, *whispers* I've been doin' my research, like did you know beluga whales are born fuzzy and black? it's so weird. I'm a animal freak! I love ANIMALS!!!!!!!!!!!!! well,Bye! *Waves goodbye*

03/20/2010 coral

i loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee animals i think virtual animals are the best if u have got any websites please let me no thank you

03/06/2010 fiona

ive got a real horse dog cat rabbit and fishes and ferits but virtual animals are the best aswell ...x

02/27/2010 Abbie

Foopets looks radical! i LOVE pets.. i have my own virtual animals account book!!!

02/15/2010 audrianna

i love animals and i have a cat and his name is sookey! I LOVE ANIMALS!

01/16/2010 Katie

I love foopets my username is Huddie3445562 and the first 8 people who send me a friend request and buy from my sale will get a free gift! i have 4 pets on there I have a rottie named Buster,a black lab named Blacky,a aussie named Hailey,and a chihuahua named Cutie there so cute

01/06/2010 Nicki

Does anybody know any 3D virtual pet bunny games that are for kids under 13? I want a game like FooPets but only bunnies. GO YEAR OF THE BUNNY!!!

12/22/2009 Rane (Rain)

This is just a answer to Chloe's qwestion. Chole all the plush pet sites I have on my favrites are...
www.Rescue pets.com, www.Petzubi.com,
www.Ponystarz.com,
www.Littlestpetshop.com,
www.Horseland.com,
www.Shidonni.com,
www.BellaSara.com,
www.Howrse.com,
www.McDonald World.com,
www.ShiningStars.com,
www.Yoohoo.com,
www.Myepets.com,
www.BeanieBabies.com,and
www.ClubPenguin.com

12/20/2009 McKenzie

i tryed to get a foopet but it said at least 13 so thats bumpkes plus i got me a webkinz i got 9 of them

12/02/2009 Friede

Why don't you try www.virtualpetsworld.com.Or, if you're a dog friek, you could try www.furry-paws.com

11/20/2009 Dayna

I love animals with all my heart and all my soul.

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