Virtual Pets & Pet Games

Online Virtual Pet Games, Download Virtual Pets, Free Virtual Pets, Adopt a Virtual Pet

Online Virtual Pets / Online Pet
- Dog Virtual Pet Games
- Cat Virtual Pet Games
- Dog AND Cat Virtual Pet Games
- Fish Virtual Pet Games
- Virtual Cattle, Cow, Steer, Bull virtual pet games
- Virtual Sheep pet game
- Camel virtual pet game
- Chicken and Bird virtual pet game
- Llama virtual pet games
- Hamster virtual pet games
- Guineea Pig virtual pet games
- Virtual Horses
- Virtual Ranch & Muliple Types of Animals
- Plant virtual pet games
- Virtual Children
- Virtual Communities of Virtual Pets, humans, avatars, and dolls
- Online Worlds Tied to a Plush (Stuffed) Pet
- Monster, Virtual Dragon, Alien, Creatures virtual pets
- Fighting , Battle Virtual Pets
- Virtual Pet Sites catering to young children
- More Sim platform virtual pet games
- Miscellaneous Online Virtual Pets
- Birthday Virtual Pets (they ask for your birthday)
- Online Virtual Pets NOT Recommended for Children
Desktop Virtual Pets
Virtual Pet Software Programs downloads
MacIntosh Virtual Pets
Palm Pilot Pets
Physical Virtual Pets
- Keychain Virtual Pets
- Robotic Virtual Pets
- Virtual Aquariums (robotic ones)
- Therapeutic Virtual Pets (robotic pets designed for sick, elderly or mentally ill people)
- "Live" Pets or Seemingly Live Pets You Grow
Interacting With "Real" Animals Online
Music Virtual Pets
- MP3 Virtual Pets
Mobile Phone Virtual Pets

Furdiburb virtual pet for Android phones

Virtual People

Pets and Other Animals Interacting With Robotic Virtual Pets and Other Robots

If you become aware of a new virtual
pet site or significant new links, please
send them to us.

Some of Our Other Coverage of the Best Known Virtual Pet Games, Free Virtual Pets, and Electronic Pets
- Virtual Pets Blog
- Tamagotchi Connection Information Center Page
- Tamagotchi
- Digimon
- NanoPets including Talking Nanos
- Giga Pets including Digital Doggie, Compu Kitty, Micro Chimp, Bit Critter, Baby T-Rex, Alien
- Fin Fin the teachable dolphin-bird pet from Fujitsu Interactive
- Our Virtual Pet Farm with pictures of hundreds of keychain pets
- Virtual Pet Reviews
- Password Puppies
- Linking Pets
- Pet Rock Page coverage of Pet Rocks
- Robotic Dogs including Tekno, Me & My Shadow, I-Cybie and Rocket
- Virtual Pet Instructions
- Store
- Virtual Pet Bibliography
- Virtual Pet Patents
- The Future of Virtual Pets
- Yu-Gi-Oh
- FAQ
- Contact Us

Dog virtual pet games - Virtual Dogs for Adoption - Free Virtual Pets
- ShowDog.com raise and show virtual dogs, great graphics!
- Furry-Paws raise, train and show virtual dogs- has some nice artwork
- Virtual Pups dog SIM game
- FooPets fairly realistic pets that breathe, pant, bark, meow, etc
- Dog Dayzz
- Sim Dog
- Dog Freak World
- Virtual Bark
- Fallen Through Time wolf game
- Rising Moon Wolves wolves
- Silver Fox
Cat virtual pet games - Virtual Cats for Adoption - Free Virtual Pets
- ShowCats virtual cat game from makers of ShowDog
- Felix a great virtual cat site from the U.K. sponsored by Purina
- Pure Felinity buy, sell, breed and show virtual cats. Genetic traits are passed on.
- FooPets fairly realistic pets that breathe, pant, bark, meow, etc. Flash site asks for your birthdate
- Dream FooPets cats
- Napoleon Show cats
- Feral Cat Alley previously Cat World, a companion to Napoleon Show
- Mweor fantasy cats
- Pocket Puma Pets small cat
- Virtual Pets and Adoptables previously My Warrior Cats. Now includes Scorpiox, a monster bug
Dog AND Cat virtual pet games
Fish virtual pet games
- Insaniquarium interesting virtual aquarium game where well tended fish drop coins you can use to buy more fish and stuff
Virtual Cattle, Cow, Steer, Bull virtual pet games
- Show Cattle raise and show cattle (from same company with ShowDogs.com)
Virtual Sheep pet game
Llama virtual pet games
Chicken virtual pet games And Other Bird Virtual Pet Games
Llama virtual pet games
- Woolly Hooves llama sim game
Hamster virtual pet games
- Hamster Academy hamsters
Guineea Pig virtual pet games
Virtual Horses - Adopt Virtual Horses - Free Virtual Pets
- There are dozens of online virtual horse SIM games. Here are a few:
  - My Dream Stable nice graphics, plus you can grow your own feed, plus a nice page for parents concerned about their kids online experinences.
  - Horse Isle nice graphics
  - Horseland train virtual horses, compete in horse shows
  - White Oak Stables nice horse sim site
  - Turf Horse
  - A Virtual Horse
  - Olympia
  - Virtual Horse Ranch
  - Pony Island a "fantasy" horse sim site - has iPhone, iPad versions
  - Club Pony Pals nice graphics
  - Pony Box
  - Arcadia directory of other horse sim sites
  - Equus Nation previously Down Under Horse, previously Poor Man's Horse
  - Equiverse
  - Howrse
  - Red Waters mystical horse sim
  - Blue Moon Herds
  - Shinari Isle
  - Horse Eden Eventing
  - My Stable UK
  - Dark Becomes Light
  - Dreams of the Wild
  - Hunt and Jump focuses on genetics
  - Canis-Equus horses and dogs
  - Star Stable horse sim very nice graphics from World of Horsecraft
  - Completely Horse Nuts
- Several virtual horse racing games are online, some cost real money to play
- - Sim Horse Racing from the makers of ShowDog.com
  - Equination.Net
  - SulkyLand
  - Virtual Reality Horse Racing this site provides links to and coverage of several of the play for "real money" virtual horse racing games and a few free games. Most are not for kids.
  - Virtual Horse Racing
  - Final Furlong horse racing game
  - Greyhound Racing free and for money

Virtual Ranch & Multiple Types of Animals

SimAgri virtual farming from France. A SimFarm, with nice graphics.
Farmville very popular farm game from Zynga on Facebook
Free Farm Game
Creature Breeder raise, breed, and trade pets on customized farms. Back online after being down a long time
Adopt Me several pets
Animal Acres horses, dogs, cats, unicorns, and more

Plant virtual pet games

Virtual Children

CyberInfants
Babyz was a well known virtual baby game from Petz

Virtual Communities of Virtual Pets, humans, avatars, and dolls

Second Life live your second / other life as an avatar (you are sort of a self controlled, virtual pet)

Precious Breedables Hippos and other animals for Second Life

Amaretto Breedables barnyard birds and other animals for Second Life

Many More Pets, Animals, and plants for Second Life

Sims

NeoPets

Farmville - very popular game by Zynga on Facebook

Moshi Monsters virtual world

Barbie Girls a virtual Barbie World from Mattel launched 26 April 2007

Florensia English version of a Japanese MMOG role playing game set in a seagoing environment. Excellent graphics, but some may be a bit racy for kids.

Furcadia you play an animal that walks around in a SIM world. Requires real money for some upgrade items

Club Penguin

Anatheria Virtual World

DizzyWood virtual world

Habbo Hotel virtual community

UbiWorld several games including some virtual pets

Goma Island

Gaia Online

Secret Builders virtual world for children, some versions require real money

Fantage virtual world for kids

Online Worlds With Tied to a Plush (Stuffed) Pet

WebKinz ties in with a plush toy
Rescue Pets was similar to Webkinz

Pixie Hollow was a Disney site that interacted with bracelet charms

Monster, Virtual Dragon, Alien, Creatures virtual pets

SPORE a long awaited game where you start and guide life on the planet and beyond.
Creatures / Norns by Creature Labs, formerly CyberLife were popular monster virtual pets
Wajas "Wolf like" creatures
Evo Dragon dragons
Dragon Cave dragons
Dragon Empire

Fighting , Battle Virtual Pets

Leviathan dragon game
ExhibitedSim dinosaur raptor Sim game
Flis Fire winged cats, genetics, battling, hunting

Virtual Pet Sites catering to young children

Shidonni flash world where you draw your own animal

More Sim Platform virtual pet games
Many of these games are quite similar and run on the same type of platform/software

Excellent Emperors penguins
Sand Box Farm exotic animals
Marsari wolves, wild dog, jackals, and big cats sim
Chicken Smoothie spiders, butterflies, horses, dogs, cats, rats
Rescreatu mystical pets game
ChibiPaws fantasy pets - site down in late 2016
Aluriya create and collect fantasy pets. Pay to play.
Pet Adoptables

Miscellaneous Online Virtual Pets - More Free Virtual Pets

Froggyville virtual frogs
Woltar adopt alien looking creature. Also available in French
Small Critters with Attitude virtual rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, mice, hamsters, ferrets, gerbils, chinchillas. Basic game is free, upgrades cost real money.
Grophland raise Grophs, mystical creatures
MisticPets
Pet RPG
Littlest Pet Shop game
Gryffs fantasy pets, formerly Virtual Gryphons. You must be invited to play.
Bunny Race rabbit breeding game

Jump Start Virtual Games several vp games

Kawaii Petsu now on Facebook

International Virtual Pet Games

Saibaa no Tomodachi interesting Asian virtual game with a young girl and a chicken, graphics are great, sounds are unusual.

Adopt Virtual Pets and Adopt Computer Pets Safely

Many cyberpet game sites ask for personal information! Use caution in providing personal information. Children should get their parents involved, before supplying family information. Install a good virus protection program and use it when downloading software. Virtual Pet Adoption can be a lot of fun, just be careful.

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Birthday sites - The sites below ask for your specific birthday information. We strongly suggest not providing that information online to them or other similar sites. You can just make up a birthday a year or more after yours and put that in if it forces you to supply your birthday. Some sites ask for your birthday to provide different content to different groups, others use it to direct specific advertising to you or to sell your name to advertisers. Whatever the intended purpose, it could one day be used for bad purposes. We encourage these sites to just ask you if you are over a given age or not.

PowerPets
Marapets
Bunny Hero Labs create your own vp that can be reached from a bookmark or web page.
Subeta previously at subeta.org
Blizzard Pets
Aywas fantasy pets
Ichumon
Verpets
Ice Pets
Daylight Pets
Poke Farm nice graphics but it wants your birthday
Somge - Create a Virtual Pet, link removed at their request

Online Virtual Pets not recommended for children

Jbum previously Charles Manson Tamagotchi

Desktop Virtual Pets

These virtual desktop pets reside on you computer desktop so you can interact with them at any time.

Screenmates provides several desktop virtual pets "screen mates"
Real PC Pets lifelike desktop virtual pets that cost real money - was being updated in Sept 2011 and Jan 2012

Keychain Virtual Pets

Tamagotchi
- Tamagotchi Connection Information Center Page one of our sites
- Tamagotchi one of our sites
- Tamagotchi Planet on Mystic Fortress (a great site)
- Tamagotchi ID - launched in Japan in late 2009, not available in a U.S. version
Giga Pets including Digital Doggie, Compu Kitty, Micro Chimp, Bit Critter, Baby T-Rex, Alien - one of our sites
Nano Pets
- NanoPets including Talking Nanos- one of our sites
- Cyber Zoo good Nano information
Digimon
- Digimon one of our sites
- History of Digimon
Octagochi 8 in 1 Virtual key chain pet
Our Virtual Pet Farm our coverage with pictures of hundreds of keychain pets

Robotic Virtual Pets

Wowee Robotic Pets
- Chip wheeled robotic dog from Wowwee
- Raptor blue a dinosaur raptor from Wowwee
- Miposaur a wheeled dinosaur from WowWee
- Raptor-X a dinosaur you can interact with from your phone from WowWee
- RoboPanda was a robotic panda from Wowwee
- Perfect Puppy
- Wrex the Dawg was a robotic dog from WowWee
- BugBots were robotic bugs from WowWee
- Alive Minis were miniature plus animal pets from WowWee
- Alive Baby Animals were small baby aninimal plush pets from WowWee
- Alive Sleeping Cuties were plush pets that sleep and slumber from WowWee
- Previouos Flying Wowwee Virtual Pets
  - Ladybug and Squirrel, Fairly Fly, Butterfly, Bat, Dragon, SkyHopper
Hasbro Robotic Pets
- Butterscotch My Furreal Friends Pony lifesize pony from Hasbro
- Hasbro Furreal robotic pets - Snuggimals Pax my Poopin Pup, Lil' Paws Snappy the Gator, Big Paws Giddy Banaan Monkey, Big Paws Patootied Piggy, Zambi the Baby Elephant, Teacup Pup, Lil' Patter Pup, Newborns. Kitty Cat, S'mores Pony, Biscuit My Lovin' Pup, Tumbles My Roll Over Pup, Newborn Polar Bear, Newborn Bunny, Kneading Kitten, Newborn Brown Bear, Newborn Guinea Pig, Newborn Chipmunk, Newborn Honey Bear, Baby Bird, Newborn Tiger Cub, Newborn Panda Bear Cub, Newborn Piglet, Baby Duckling, Lulu's Walkin' Kitty, Luv Cub Panda, Cuddle Chimp. Some of them are no longer in production.
Sega Toy's Dream Pet Series
- Yumepet from Sega was on a Japanese site
- Brain Activated Yumepet was an experiment comparing virtual and real pets on your brain
- Yume Risu - Yumepet squirrel
- Yume-Hiyoko - young chick (chicken) plush pet
- Owl, Parrot, & Cat
- Yume Kotori - Yumepet Parrot
- Yume Oumu - another Parrot
- Yume Fukurou - Yumepet Owl - a bit odd as owls are seen as a symbol of death in Japan.
- Yume Usagi - Yumepet rabbit
- Yume Hamster
- Yume-Neko Smile, the robotic cat on Engadget
- Dog
- Peko-Ppa virtual plant
- ZhuZhu pets resemble gerbils or mice and have parts to create a playworld sliperslide for them, plus some nice beds.
Sony Aibo robotic dog - discontinued in 2006
Primopeace was talking plush pet from Bandai

Chou Chou butterfly in a jar, flys when tap the lid

Furby

Furby Store historical info only, store is closed
Furby News and Technical Information our Furby page
Furby Autopsy

Hexbug Micro Robotic Creatures at Radio Shack from Bandai including mice, fish, sea horse, jellyfish, beetles. ants, crabs, inchworms, spiders, scarab, and larve

Yuruppy Touchscreen Virtual Pet small handheld device with large screen that comes in 3 versions (bird, dog, cat). Each version has 14 games to play with your pet.

Choken-Bako robotic dog bank. He eats coins from his dogdish (he actually licks them into a whole the side of his bowl and they fall into the box he stands on.

Virtual Aquariums (robotic ones)

Aquapict jellyfish

Therapeutic Virtual Pets (robotic pets designed for sick, elderly or mentally ill people)

Healing Partner Dacky
PARO Seal Type Mental Commit Robot a therapeutic robot seal

"Live" Pets or Seemingly Live Pets You Grow

Chia plants grow over a shape
Self Contained "real" Worlds
- EcoSphere a water based ecosystem enclosed in a glass ball
- Uncle Milton Ant Farm "real" ants life in a closed world

Interacting With "Real" Animals Online - Remotely Adopt a Horse

Horse of Mine at horseofmine.com used to let you watch real horses you owned a fraction of

Music Virtual Pets: MP3 Virtual Pets

Otoizm ate music from your MP3 player, doubles as a Yo-Yo, an grows up according to the type of music you listen to.

Mobile Phone Virtual Pets

Hatchis a retro Tamagotchi like game for the iPhone
Pocket Frongs pet farming on the iPhone
My Horse from Natural Motion Games - very realistic motion for iPhone and iPad
Several Android phone pets available from Google Play
Choro Mode Pet series of small mechanical, robotic pets that can be controlled with a cell phone

Virtual People

Cube World several small screens that can be linked together. Small stick people live, work, and play in each block, and can interact with one another. From Bandai.
Human Player small pet represents you and takes on your personality. Uses only a few pixels. Is from Bandai.
Frepar Networks POD 3D virtual human interaction device announced as coming soon (2007) but now (2011) hard too find.
Little Computer People from Activision was one of the early "virtual pets". You watched a man walking around a three story house on your Commodore 64. Was also one of the early games to use "digital DNA" (your man had a distinct personality). This review is from Unsung Heroes.
Kari Virtual Girlfriend
Love Plus - Japanese game. Date and make plans with your virtual girlfriend. Just like real women, they require quite a bit of attention. described by wikipedia

Virtual Pet Ant Farms

Ants Life Studio virtual ant farm from Bandai
Sim Ant developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts in 1991. One of the many great Sim games

Virtual Pets Software Programs downloads

This download category used to have a lot of pets in it, but most have since gone online. It is refreshing to see some new entries here. They can be played without tying up your phone line.

Happy Hamster, a cute game, was one of the early virtual pets
Wolf Quest downloadable realistic wolf game developed by grant from the National Science Foundation
Some more complex downloadable virtual pets
- Cy Pet basic round faces smiley type pet - while this game appears harmless, another game being advertised on the same page is a bit racey for young kids.
- Darwin Pond artificial life game.
  It constructs life from a gene pool
- Create Your Own Virtual Pet
  Requires some programming skills. From Stager.Org

MacIntosh Virtual Pets

Chi Pet a Dashboard widget version of the popular Chia plant pet
visit the Mac App store and search for "virtual pet" to find several more

Palm Pilot Pets

Little Palm Pet cute dogs for your Palm Pilot. Sleepy one is free, one that stays awake a lot costs money.
Fish Tycoon, Plant Tycoon, and Village Sim were Palm Pilot or Pocket PC virtual pets

Pages by Others About Virtual Pets and Related Interactive Toys

Littlest Pet Shop Digital Pets was a large line of virtual pets from Hasbro
ReX-10 / Robo-Dog Barking Dog Alarm was a security alarm using x-10 technology
Tama Robo Cat by Omron
Pokemon
- Nintendo Pokemon site

Virtual Pet Cemeteries

Digital Pet Funeral Parlor was a popular virtual cemetery for virtual pets
Virtual Pet Cemetery virtual place to remember your REAL pets

Virtual Pet Social Research

Virtual Pet Newsgroups

Note - some of these groups are not monitored and the language or topics may not be fit for children at times. (Maybe not fit for adults either). You can usually tell by the message's subject line, if it is "fit to read" or not.

alt.toys.virtual-pets
alt.toys.hi-tech
alt.pets.tamagotchi
TamaTalk
Virtual Pets ML Yahoo Groups
Tamagotchi - Yahoo Groups has been overran by spam June 2012
Digital Pets Discussion Yahoo Groups, no longer active
Virtual Pet List

Miscellaneous

Reality Works Baby Think it Over, RealCare Baby II and BeginnnerCare Baby high tech dolls for teaching teens and adults about the responsibilities of caring for a baby. Click on Parenting Education to view info on them.

Virtual Pet Manufacturers

Near Life developed virtual life entertainment in many media forms
Bandai - Japan - Japanese site has info on Tamagotchi in Japanese
Bandai - Japan - English site
Bandai American Inc.
Silverlit
Tiger Electronics - part of Hasbro since 1998
Takara Tomy Japanese site
EcoSphere
Maxis, creator of Sims and El-Fish, now owned by Electronic Arts
Playmates Toys Nano Pets

Virtual Pet Technical Research

Bibliography of Virtual Pet Research
InteractiveStory.Net Andrew Stern, includes an excellent bibliography of interactive stories and several links
Virtual Babyz: Believable Agents with Narrative Intelligence by Andrew Stern
MIT request stories about virtual pets
Project OZ was an arfical intelligence research project studying virtual worlds at Carnegie Mellon Univ.
LIG Virtual Humans in a Swiss lab
Biota.org New life in digital space
Synthetic ecosystems for learning about the living world Biota.org
Irobot

Polson Enterprises

We have been covering the virtual pet industry since mid 1996. Some of our coverage is child oriented, while other areas range from entertaining to instructional to very technical. We also provide technical and market research assistance to firms developing virtual pets in all formats and frequently assist the media in covering the virtual pet industry.

A few other examples of our work are:

The Sun Never Sets on Virtual Pets Polson Enterprises

polsong@virtualpet.com

Virtual Pet Sites No Longer Online and related sites NO Longer Available

We moved the List of Virtual Pet Sites and Related sites No Longer Online to its own page in August 2005. It provides nice list of many virtual pets no longer available online along with their original URLs. and the approximate dates they were removed from service. Sometimes we list a few recent removals below that have not yet been moved to that page.

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