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petz4fun is a community for petloving kids (and others). It is a place where you can buy and care for virtual pets and meet new and
old friends. You can learn about animals and participate in competitions. If you take care of your pets they can get kids.
The kids may inherit characteristics from their parents, so you can, for example, try to breed a specific kind of animal,
e.g. white rabbit, etc
How is petz4fun run? (to parents)
Getting started
Money
The pets
Mating and kids
Private room
GoldMember
Expos
Messages
SuperFriend
The Petz League
Forum
Guestbook
Auctions
Diary
RealPets
Login problems
Member Levels
Clubs
Who has created petz4fun
Answer:
How is petz4fun run? (to parents)
To accomplish this we scan for bad language. Those who do not behave are suspended from all message handling.
Personal images are always checked before they can be seen by other members.
Feel free to contact us with your opinions about petz4fun on e-mail: info@petz4fun.com.
Getting started
Begin by registering as a member. Make sure you choose a good password and that you verify your e-mail address.
Then you may go to the PetStore and buy a pet, some food and maybe a toy. Then you may start sending messages to other members.
When the pets get older you may allow them to mate with other pets and get children to take care of.
1 day in real life is approx. 10 days at petz4fun
Money
It is free to use petz4fun. Money (in the game) can be gained in different ways.
When you signup you get 130 euro.
Every week you get 20 euro in allowance (on Sunday morning) if you have visited your pets during the week.
If you take good care of them you get an extra 20 euro, and if you are GM you get 5 euro extra. You can also sell pets to get money.
They are worth the same value as their score. You may also win money in our expos.
An expo winner gets 100 euro, the runner up gets 50 euro and 3rd place gets 25 euro
You need to make a budget to be sure you can afford food for your pets. You cannot buy too many at once!
The pets
You get points if you take care of your pet. That means you should visit your pet, make sure it's got food and play/hug your pet sometimes.
You can only get (or loose) 1 point per day (2 for hamsters). An exception is pets with negative score - they get 10 points a day until they reach zero again
'Company' increases every day you play/hug the pet (max 10) and decreases when you have not visited the pet for 3 days.
As long as Company is above zero your pet never loses points
The different animals have special properties:
Cats have their tail upwards if they are happy. That is, if it has a score above zero, you have visited it and it has got food.
Dogs have different species that may be crossbred.
Rabbits eat different kinds of food and have different types of ears and tails.
Hamsters have 2 types of toys (that will not break). A hamster may get 2 points a day
All animals may have different colours and patterns that may be inherited by their kids.
Pets with 2 colours on their body count as '2-coloured' (not if they have a second colour only at the tip of their tail or on their paws).
When you buy a pet you may rename it one time!
If a pet gets below -30 points it is automatically sent to the PetStore
The pets die when they get old. Cats and dogs at approx. 15 years, rabbits at 10 years and hamsters at 4 years.
Well-kept pets live a little longer.
Some symbols may be shown with the pets:
| ♀ | Girl |
| ♂ | Boy |
| ☺ | Pet has points, food and has played/been hugged today |
| A | Mating allowed |
| M | Mated - kids on the way |
| N | Not kept - the kids have not been chosen yet |
 | Have won a cup in an expo |
 | Have prize in expo |
Mating and kids
When a cat/dog is 10 months old (after 1 month in real life) it may mate.
Rabbits may breed at around 6-7 months and hamsters at approx. 5 months.
Mating is done by allowing the pet to mate (a button in the pet's room). The first 2 times you cannot choose the partner.
The pet must have at least 10 points to mate. It may mate 4 times total (3 for hamsters).
It may take one day or several weeks before mating is done. You never know...
If the pet has 60 points and has mated 2 times before you may enter it in the Mating room and choose the partner.
After mating it takes approx. 2 months before the kids are born, for cats/dogs.
Rabbits are born after 5 days and hamsters after 2 days.
After the kids are born it takes 20 days (in the game), i.e. the kids are older than 6 1/2 months, before their parents may mate again.
Can I keep the kids?
When you get kids you can choose which ones you want to keep.
The first day you may only choose 1 kid. The owners of the mother and father can keep at least 1 kid each.
Day 2-3 you may keep 1 more and after 3 days both players can keep the rest of the kids (if there are any left).
The owner of the mother may choose to sell unkept kids to other members after 5 days.
After 2-3 months (10 days in the game) unkept kids are sold automatically to the PetStore.
Private room
At 'Personal profile' (found in your 'Home') you can add information about yourself. You may choose to add a picture of yourself, your favourite pet or something else.
All pictures are pre-viewed by us before they can be seen by others. You may only use pictures
NOT protected by copyright.
You may add HTML-tags in your room to make it look nice, for example to get a background or music. NB! this is up to you. We do not assist in this.
You may always try to get help from other members.
If you add a member as a SuperFriend, this member may change your information.
GoldMember
GoldMember is often written as GM on petz4fun.
To become a GM costs USD 3 (approx. GPB 1,50 or 2,30 Euro) in REAL money. It is payed thru PayPal or (for some countries) by sending a premium SMS message.
See more info
here
Expos
There are 2 types of expos: Voting and exhibition ('regular' expo).
At voting the members decide who will win by casting votes.
At an exhibition the score is set based on random AND how well you have tended the pet.
If 2 pets get the same score the computer randomly decides the position.
The winner in an expo gets 100 euro, 2nd gets 50 and 3rd place gets 25 (in the game).
You enter an expo by chosing an 'open' expo and then click on the animal that you want to enter. It is free to enter expos.
Messages
You can have an unlimited number of messages for a month. After 1 month they get deleted automatically.
Messages you want to keep longer than 1 month, you may choose to 'keep'. You may keep a total of 30 messages.
SuperFriend
A SuperFriend is someone you have chosen to trust. This member may change info on your personal profile.
He/she may also feed your pets.
He/she may NOT buy/sell pets and cannot see your password.
You make someone your SuperFriend by clicking 'Super' on someone in your list of Friends (He/she must be your friend first).
The Petz League
This is our quiz competition in cooperation with quiz4fun.
Prove your knowledge in the world of nature in quiz-matches with others!
Forum
The forum is an important place. This is where you may ask about how things at petz4fun work.
This is also an excellent place to get to know some new friends...
Guestbook
If you want you can have a guestbook. Messages written here may be seen by everybody.
Messages in the guestbook are saved for 3 weeks.
Auctions
Our Gold Members (GM) may sell animals in the Auction House.
The member that sells the animal chooses the length of the auction (1 hour, 1 day and 1 week) and a minimum price.
Once an auction is started the pet will be sold to the member that places the highest bid for the pet.
All members may buy pets in the Auction House. When a member places the highest bid for a pet the money is taken from the account (at once).
If another member later puts in a higher bid the money is returned.
When a GM pet is forced to the Petstore (when it is not treated well) it will also be sold to the highest bidder in an auction.
Diary
You may write a Diary at petz4fun. For each day you may write 1 'page'. For every page you can decide if it will be seen by everybody
or only by those you have selected as Friends (or SuperFriends).
If you are a GM you may also save a picture each day.
Messages in the Diary are saved for 1 year
RealPets
What is RealPets?
RealPets is a function where you may enter information about your REAL pets (IRL). It has nothing to do with the virtual pets in the game. If you have pets that you want to show to other members this is where you may do it. You can add a number of pets and for each pet a number of photos and comments.
The images you upload must be of your own pets and the images must NOT be copyright protected.
As a non-GM member you may add 4 pets with 3 images for each pet. As GM you may add 20 pets and 20 images per pet.
Login problems
If you have made 3 failed login attempts the computer is automatically blocked for 1 hour.
If your password does not work you can fetch it through 'Forgot?' on the startpage.
Member levels
Every member gets a member level between 0-5 depending on how active the member is and how long time the member has been on petz4fun.
The value '0' indicates a brand new member and the value '5' a very experienced one.
This level is sometimes used to decide what a member may do. As an example you must have at least level 4 to apply to become a CREW at petz4fun (to help us run the site)
Exactly HOW the level is calculated is our little secret... ;-)
Clubs
A Club is a special place for members that have a common interest. Members may start clubs about anything they like (as long as it follows our rules).
Every member have a
clubsaldo that is the number of clubs that the member may start. The saldo is added by one when:
- A members gains a
member level above 1. In other words; when a member reaches a new level and the new level is 2 or higher.
- When a GM period is paid.
A Club may be "open" or "private".
An OPEN club everybody may join and you may not stop members to join your club.
In a PRIVATE club members must apply to join the club.
If you want to build an active and big Club you should select an OPEN Club. If you want a private place for your friends chose a PRIVATE Club.
Note that you CANNOT change the type of the Club or the name once you have started it!
You can only delete a Club with no members. If there are members you may always resign as Club owner. Then another member may take over as owner of the Club.
A new expo is held once a week where the club members may enter one pet each in an expo where the pet represents the Club and it will give the Club a prize if the pet do well in the expo.
A member may join 10 Clubs at the most.
Who has created petz4fun
petz4fun is an english version of the popular Swedish site djur.nu.
It was outlined by 2 twin girls (10 years old at the time). Their father created the site and now helps run it through the company PeoplePath AB (prev. 121reach AB).
You can reach us through e-mail at info (at) petz4fun (dot) com or by telephone +46(8)556 717 50
