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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.

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Virtual worlds

Written February 2, 2009

User Reviews & Comments

01/19/2012 tia

foo pets gonna come back to being free i like the old version when it wasn't to pay for

12/27/2011 SparkleJoy

Foopets is a good site I only wish it was free. Numerous breeds of both cats and dogs to choose from, plus most members are nice and are willing to help. There are many items to decorate your pet's scene. You can have up to 50 pets or more if you breed them. I personally love foopets and have met many great friends on there.

12/10/2011 Angie

this is really fun for your chidr en. parents should allow kids to do this stuff.

12/09/2011 mady

i hate foo pets i used to have like 10 accounts but now you have to pay to play.my animals in that game they probably deleted.

11/30/2011 tiapi

buy a real pet then you guys are so stupid!

11/22/2011 ralahinn1

As of April 2011, you can't get anymore free pets at foo pets, you have to pay to join their" club foo" in order to play the game and use real money to buy" foo dollars".

11/04/2011 summer

i love thes pet games!!!!

10/22/2011 Amy

hi im nine and im dying for a dog but we hav two cats so we cant so i want a virtual free online one just like thhe real thing where it moves like on foo pets but not foopets cos i want it free. if u find a website plz email me at amy2zoe@gmail.com. thts right. a nine yr old with her own emai account. Im Amy davies plz reply.

10/18/2011 jordyn

there's a website i like its about horses.you can take care of your own horse its really neat i love it.the name of it is howrse.com if you want to go there.in real life i also have two cats one named Jessie(female)and one named Scamp(male).and no,they don't love each other.yet.

10/15/2011 vponce

Do NOT talk bout foopets like that. Yes you have to pay. But it's worth it. And the hate was maybe because they thought it was a spam

10/13/2011 Jessica

Foopets; I know its trolling but they said its changing back soon. I'll come back when it does go back to normal. :)

04/05/2011 gingerpuppy

i just love animals too! I have a game called: wolfquest.com its a downloaded game, but you wont be sorry you downloaded it! if you love to roleplay with others, or you love wolves and dogs, than this is the site for you! you can also help the bribe if your parents dont want to upload it, say its educational, and it really is! but it is still fun!

03/13/2011 adama

i love animal are so cute exept cat my friend had one and it scratched me realy hard that blood came out and im allergic to them

03/07/2011 Shelbi

OMG!!!! Foopets used to be free i had like 4 accounts. :O but i havent got on in like a year. so i got on today... and YOU HAVE TO PAY!!!!! they shouldnt have done that -.-

03/04/2011 rebecca

I LOVE CATS . I HAVE GOT A CAT CALLED LOUIE. HE IS VERY CLEVER HE KNOWS EVERYTHING YOU SAY HE IS A BOY .

02/25/2011 Cassie

OMG I M SSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOO angry!!!! my little cousin was on this website the other day and I was watching him. Then he got off and I was looking around on the website clicking different thing when a website came up where u cud adopt a virtual pet but I was in the middle of a game and now I FORGOT the name of the website!!!! UUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! plz if any1 has any ideas plz help! THANX

02/24/2011 hannah

ALL of these websites are rubbish, got an account on everyone one and it is rubbish!!! i will never do it again, you could just buy your own pets thats what my parents did for me and now i have 7 horses, 3 dogs, 1 cat (i hate cats) etc.....

02/18/2011 Christina

Well try Foopets. Haven't tried it yet because its not free! I wish it was free cause I love animals so much. I like dogs/puppies better.

02/08/2011 Clair

I love animals and i whant my own but my parints don't whant me to because we have two dogs one cat and sea monkeys and a ginypig ad every one but me and my dad don't have one but he had one befor.

02/05/2011 Jessica

You should try foopets they have REAL virtual pets on that site and you can adopt a pet from the adoption store if you want no one else to take that pet.

02/05/2011 What.

Foopets. Worst welcome I ever got there. I join, post a nice, friendly "hi" in the introductions, and I get slammed with hate. Don't ever try it. All the other places are quite reasonable, though.

02/05/2011 Hailey

hey oh I love bunnies so much please there are some lost in the woods that people did not like and killed them and eat them so if you were lost in the forest and someone found you and shot you with a gun and killed you and ate you and you were dead in their belly and never came alive again so sad eh :( BEAT THAT HUNTERS AND PEOPLE WHO HATE BUNNIES

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