1. What is Pet Society?

2. Beginning Guide

3. Mini-Game Hints

4. Paw Points

5. Coins

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1. What is Pet Society?

“Pet Society is a Facebook application that allows people to create pets (I’m one!), plunk them down in a house and interact with them. Not only can you play ball, feed your pet and buy things, but you can also give gifts and leave messages for your Facebook friends’ pets! Its a big world, and its only just begun.” ~Jello and Lauren, owners of this Blog and only people with permission to use my guide.

2. Beginning Guide

When you first enter this game, you will be greeted by the Mayor of Pet Society. After a few words from him, you make your pet! Be sure to make this pet how you want it, because it costs coins to change how they look, their gender, name, and colour. (NOTE: There are some styles that are not available right away that are only available in the Stylist.)

After creating your pet, you will be brought to your house. Once inside, the mayor will ask you to open your chest. It is in the lower left-hand corner of the screen. Inside it, you should find a comfortable armchair and a television. After clicking and dragging those into your house, the mayor will show you the three gauges of your pet’s status. Health, happiness, and cleanliness.

Health is restored by eating food, and a low health pet will move slower.

Happiness is recovered by brushing, or rubbing, your pet, playing games, visiting friends, or certain furniture items will increase it as well. I have not let my pet’s happiness fall to low levels, so I do not know what a low-happiness pet does. (Jello’s note: A pet with low-level happiness will become depressed! He or she will hunch over and walk more slowly than usual. Don’t let your pet become unhappy!)

Cleanliness is recovered by washing your pet with soap. A pet who is not clean will have flies flying around it, and it may leave a little gift for you on the floor… You can clean that gift up by clicking on it. You also gain a coin for that.

You can practice brushing, feeding, washing, and rubbing at this point. The new items should be in your item box. To brush, simply click and drag the brush over your pet until it shows a happiness symbol float up—the same goes for washing. Rubbing, you just simply click on your pet and move the mouse on them. For feeding, you simply drop the food near your pet, they will walk to it and eat it if they are hungry.

Sometime while practicing those, you will get a letter at your door! This contains 50 coins from the “Lottery.” Once a day, you will gain 50-500 coins from the lottery. (Jello’s note: I got 1,000 coins once! woo hoo!) After receiving this, you will be promoted to Rank Two and receive 100 coins and a ball to play with!

Before you play with your ball, check out that shirt icon on the lower left screen. In it will be a retro green polo and either a baseball cap or a ten gallon stetson (which is worth much more).

Now, I highly recommend getting your gold trophies in the sports ASAP. Oh! You can get trophies in this game. You will see a trophy button on the lower left side of the screen. It will tell you what you have to do to get trophies. All bronze trophies give 50 coins, silver gives 100 coins, and gold gives 150 coins.

Anyway, about getting your sport trophies. The ball and frisbee are easiest at lower levels since your house is smaller, which allows them to bounce off walls more easily. For the ball, simply drop it on your pet, and you will toss it back and forth just don’t let it hit the floor! When you get a silver trophy, you should reach the next rank, 100 coins, and receive a frisbee!

The frisbee is a tad more difficult to play with, as it is more difficult to click on, but it goes further and can bounce many times before landing on the ground. After getting at least a silver trophy in this, you should rank up, get 100 coins, and get your jump rope!

The jump rope does not need to be done now. Since you stay in one place, a bigger house won’t hurt you. Now let’s say you already have a large house, and you want to bounce the ball/frisbee off the walls. Just go to a friend’s house that is small! You can play and get a score there, just make sure you’re playing with your pet. Scores on your friend’s pet will not help you. But you might as well do some jump roping, since you should be all pumped up from the other two games!

With the jump rope, you will click your pet when the rope gets into range. As time passes, the rope will speed up‚ thus you need to click more often.

After all of that, you are well ready to explore the world of Pet Society and with about 1,500 coins in your pocket! I’ll give a brief tour of the town.

When you first leave your house, go left. The first “shop” you come across is the Stylist. Here you can pay to change the look, gender and name of your pet. It will costs coins to change the name and colour each time, but styles of the face, forehead, eyes, eyebrows, ears, nose, mouth, and head shape will cost coins just once, then you can switch between them as often as you like!

Next on the tour, further to the left, is the bank. No, you can’t store coins here and gain interest. You can, however, purchase coins using REAL LIFE currency and you can get 3000 coins for “free” although many require a credit card and some sort of subscription and/or shipping and handling fees. In my experience, do not sign up for this stuff… (Jello’s note: I did! It is a very secure website. I highly recommend it if you have a credit card, but just read the fine print and don’t sign up for a recurring cost if you don’t want the product)

Head back to your house area. Head to the right. You will see the food shop. Here you can buy feed to keep your pet healthy! Then comes the furniture shop. The most well-known object in there is the mystery box! They come in three sizes: cheap (RMB), regular (BMB), and expensive (GMB)! Each one holds a RANDOM piece of clothing, door, carpet, wallpaper, or furniture, and you don’t always get a good deal out of it (since it is RANDOM) However, many players are willing to trade items for mystery boxes. Check the Pet Society forums. But promise to be careful, there are some mean people out there that will scam you of your hard-earned coins. (Jello’s note: We are going to have a “Trusted Traders” section where kind-hearted and good Pet Society traders will be listed, keep your eyes peeled!)

Next is the clothes store. Well, I think you know what this one is. You can buy shirts, hats, pants, shoes, and wrist gear. You can have two wrists equipped at a time, one on each wrist.

Head straight down, past the closed housing (unless you already have friends here!). You can click on these houses if you wish to invite friends to play this with you. (Recommended!) You can visit your friends once a day (or sometimes more often) for paw points and coins!

Anywho, here you will see a closed down Café. It will open sometime in the future. Next to that is the D.I.Y. Depot. In here you will find carpets and wallpapers, as well as windows and doors.

Go to the upper left until you run into a HUGE building. This is the Stadium. More information can be found on this blog, here: The Scoop on The Stadium. It will open very soon!

Well, that’s all for the beginner’s guide. This is by no means THE way you should play, but this is what I find to be the best when I help my friends who are just starting to play.

3. Mini-Game Hints

Ball: Make sure you have the sound effects on, upon hearing a “plop!” Your pet will have hit the ball and you can then hit it. You can have your mouse right over their head and click as soon as you hear that sound. You may have to move further away once the ball is being thrown with more force. This will speed up your game.

Frisbee: No hints really, except play this in the smallest house you can find! You will want a few chances to hit the dang, skinny thing!

Jump Rope: Now, you notice how the rope turns red? That’s when it is safe to jump. However, since most people’s reflexes are not 0.00 seconds, I tend to click when I see the rope pass the eyebrows. (The rope will still be black.) Doing it this way gives a bit more time to jump once the rope starts going super-fast.

(Jello’s note: One super-observant commenter, inFabula, noticed that you get 1 Paw Point for every 5 Jumps/Catches/Bounces. Thanks!)

4. Paw Points

Paw points are needed to rank up in this game. Each rank will upgrade an item of yours, or your house, and give you 100 coins. (Each one comes with a spiffy title as well!) You sometimes gain 2-7 paw points when washing or brushing pets, you gain 16-17 when feeding pets. More expensive food simply feeds them faster, it does not give more paw points (That I have seen, anyway). Sending items to friends can get a lot of points! The number of points gained depends on the item’s price. I got 100 points for sending a 10,000 coin item! (Jello’s note: wow…you’re generous! 10,000 coins!!!) Visiting friends will give you 5 paw points each visit. Playing with the mini-game items will give you paw points if you score high enough.

5. Coins

Everyone wants more coins. One of the best ways is to buy mystery boxes and trade the items away on the forums for more boxes or items you want. Generally an item is worth about 3x the selling price. But don’t ask for the full price, since most people give discounts! As I said before, be careful while doing this, there are scammers out there!

Other, less risky, ways of obtaining coins are… Walking through trees. Some of them will drop one coin. Washing, brushing, or feeding your pet, sometimes these activities will give you two coins. Playing the mini-games with your pet will conclude in some coins being dropped. Visiting your friends will result in 20 coins per friend per day. (Sometimes you can do this more than once with newer friends, not sure of the exact time between getting coins for newer friends.)

Some people swear by the small mystery boxes, that they can make you a small fortune. But I’ve never had luck doing this, I always lost coins. Anyway, you buy small mystery boxes and open them, then selling the contents in game. (which range from 16 coins to 66 coins selling value. Sometimes it will contain another mystery box! (Maybe a different size!)) If your willing to wait awhile, trading these items away would definitely make a profit, but some of the items are not highly wanted.

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Well, that is it for my basic Beginner’s Guide! Hope it helped!

This is copyrighted by Daniel Haring, so do not copy this without his permission. If you do, he will smack you with a folding fan. Just e-mail him at shirei.oborejinu@gmail.com if you want to use this on your site, he will most likely say yes. So far, only the Pet Society Chatter blog has permission to use this guide.

And a big thanks to Lauren and Jello for putting up this guide! (Jello’s note: Thanks to you, Daniel, for writing it!! :D)

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