Just to let everyone on pet society chatter know that our neighbourhood has changed, we have our very own shop owners who all have an introduction of themselves, not forgetting the Mayor and the Bank manager. For more information on competitions, to buy merchandise or other Pet Society info, please go to The Pet Society Official Site.
The Mayor
Asked about his wife the mayor will chuckle that she makes the little decisions while he makes the big decisions, however to date, no big decisions have needed to be made. Nevertheless, it’s certainly true that in all the mayor’s years in office, the trains have never failed to run on time. In fact they’ve never run. The mayor comes from a proud line of Pet Society mayors. His father was mayor. His father’s father was a mayor. His father before that was a hotdog vendor, but he was reportedly good friends with the mayor at the time. We’re pretty certain HIS father was mayor too, but records were lost when someone spilt fruit juice on them. We can confirm however that each generation of mayor has shared not only their office, but a fine and well trimmed moustache. The mayor has never taken his top hat off in public and rumour has it that he keeps a mystery item under it, although popular opinion is that it’s simply a meatball, his favourite food.
Your Home
This beautifully constructed and cosy home is all yours when you first start playing Pet Society. Make every room of the house your own personal masterpiece!
Friend’s Homes
Invite your friends to join your village! You can have a look around their home, give those messages and gifts, or just drop by to give them a big hug!
The Stadium
Compete against your friends
Despite pets not being eminently athletic types, the stadium is nonetheless a popular venue for pets young and old to meet, race, cheer on their friends and slip over on unfortunately placed banana skins. Even the mayor has been known to enter himself for occasional hurdle races, although his track record is poor.
Perry our cafe owner
Perry considers himself the Picasso of the barista world, taking pride in his ability to create the most exquisite blends with the finest ingredients. Unfortunately the clientele of the Pet Society Café don’t always share that opinion, and his dark roasted cream Truffles cake latte with a dash of soy sauce was less than a success. As a rule of thumb if Perry offers a coffee with a “special secret ingredient” it’s best to decline unless you’re really like the idea of tomato soup in your coffee. More closely guarded even than his secret ingredients is Perry’s first name, which he has so far been able to keep secret from the entire village. Popular opinions that it is Shirley are unconfirmed. Perry is open however about his ambition though — to create ‘Perrybucks’, his own chain of coffee shops.
Grumble our home store owner
Ask Grumble to fetch an item stacked high on a shelf and you’ll notice two things — Grumble never uses a ladder, and he possesses an uncharacteristic grace which you’d never expect from first glance. Grumble will talk at length of his passion for dancing to anyone who’d care to listen as he prices up their wallpaper and floor tiling. To some, the idea of such an ungainly looking character treading the boards in a ballet or theatre seems too funny for words and yet, Grumble is entirely serious. You see, Grumble never wanted to run a DIY store. Grumble’s dream was always to become a dancer. And if you’re ever passing through the main street in the village late at night, after Grumble’s store is closed, and you happen to peer into the DIY shop’s window; don’t be surprised if you see Grumble waltz with a mop, or pirouette with a broom. And be less surprised still if you feel an urge to give him a standing ovation.
Preston our Furniture store owner
The popular Preston is the first to admit that it was entirely an accident that he displayed three items on the shelves of the village furniture store in the wrong boxes. In his own words, he only realised his mistake after all three boxes had been sold. So when all three customers returned that afternoon, each with a box under their arm, Preston braced himself for their complaints. But the customers hadn’t come to complain. They’d come to buy more of these ‘mystery boxes’. See, when they each opened up their boxes and found something completely unexpected, they were so pleased with what they found they just had to come back and try again to see what they might find next. Even though Preston tried to protest that it had all been a huge mistake, word soon got out about the amazing new Mystery Boxes and before long pets were queuing around the village to try one for them.
Mr Shuttleworth our bank manager
Little is known about the mysterious Mr. Shuttleworth, who has largely kept himself to himself since setting up the Pet Society Bank in the middle of the village. He’ll rarely be drawn into conversation and he keeps his cards very close to his chest. He’s the only pet who doesn’t seem to live in the village, although because nobody ever sees him come or go nobody really knows where he lives, and while he has been sighted outside his bank before, something is never quite right. For instance he might be wearing a slightly wonky fake moustache, or walking briskly from a troublesome situation, like a cat stuck up a tree. Felicity in particular insists that Mr. Shuttleworth enjoys causing mischief during his spare time, but the rest of the village reserve their opinion. Think you know what Mr. Shuttleworth is up to? Maybe the clues are there, or perhaps we’ll have to wait and see? One thing’s for certain, there’s more to Mr. Shuttleworth than his umbrella and bowler hat!
Lily our clothes store owner
Felicity’s long suffering best friend Lily’s passion for knitting far outweighs her talent, but that has never stopped her from attempting the most spectacular feats of craft the village has ever seen. For instance her recent attempt to create the world’s largest knitted Mystery Box ended catastrophically when she tragically forgot to give the box any corners. In a moment of rare inspiration the Mayor suggested that the failed Mystery Box be put forward as the world’s largest scarf instead.
After a lengthy launch ceremony the Mayor invited press and photographers to record the historic occasion of the village becoming the proud owner of the world’s largest scarf. Unfortunately a thread from the scarf became attached to the mayor’s shirt button and by the time he realized his mistake he’d been driven home and the scarf had been entirely unravelled. Undeterred Lily has pledged to knit an even longer scarf, on the condition that the Mayor keeps a safe distance from it at all times.
Truffles our Food store owner
The saying goes that people who work in chocolate factories quickly find themselves sick of the sight of it, but that doesn’t seem to apply to Truffles. Truffles lives, breathes, dreams and, well, eats food, so starting a food shop in the village seemed like a great way to make sure he could surround himself with it at all times. There’s only one issue. Truffles is also a notorious hoarder, which can pose a problem when people want to actually buy food from him. Commonly a conversation might go:
“Have you got any apples today, Truffles?” “Nope, none, sorry! Come back tomo-”
“Truffles, I can see the apples over there. “Oh THOSE apples.
No, sorry those apples are, ah, broken. Yes, they’re broken.”
Felicity our luxury store owner
If your pet finds that they can’t walk down the street without other pets exchanging knowing glances or snickering, the chances are Felicity might have something to do with it. Felicity is the town gossip, and she can’t resist a juicy rumour — indeed most of them can be traced back to her in the first place. And yet the hottest rumour of the moment in the village is that Felicity herself has a secret crush on one of the other shopkeepers. Uncharacteristically for Pet Society’s self titled “it girl”, who she has a crush on is one secret she’s actually been able to keep, but it’s only be a matter of time before the queen of gossip finds her own secrets the talk of the town!
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