Interacting with your Neopets

To have a happy and healthy Neopet you must: Feed it Keep it healthy Play with it Take it on trips Give it lots of attention If you don't take good care of your pets, they will become unhappy and may become sick.

1. If you have less than 3,000 neopoints, a warm bowl of soup.
   


2. Lots of eggy varieties.
   


3. Located in the non-existant Jelly World.
   


4. Free food for fast fingers.
   

1. Ice cold colas and more.
   


2. A tasty variety of Rice Balls.
   


3. Every pet loves NeoPet cereal.
   


4. A selection of drinks.
   

1. Other players’ shops found throughout Neopia
2. Main Neopian shops found on all the worlds and Neopia Central

To feed your pets, go to Your Items and click on the food you want to feed your pet.  A window will pop up with a drop down menu where you select the pet you want to feed. Once your pet is bloated, it cannot eat anymore. Note: A starving or sick pet may not be pretty, but it will not die. Keep in mind if your pets are hungry, they cannot fight in the Battledome.



Another option to feed your pets is to go to the Neolodge where you pay a fee to let your pet stay at the hotel of your choice for however long you decide they should stay. During their stay they are fed and looked after.


Entertaining / Grooming your Pet

What keeps your pet at its happiest is playing with it and grooming it. The highest level of happiness for a pet is delighted! Items that raise your pet’s happiness level can be purchased from Neopian shops, other player’s shops, won while playing Games or Quests, and through Random Events.

To play with one of your pets, you need to have a toy or other item in Your Items. A toy comes also with the newbie pack you received when you created your very first pet. Once you have purchased a toy, go to Your Items and click on the toy. A window will pop up with a drop down menu where you select Play with ‘Pet’s Name’. Once you click submitYou are the best owner ever! or All my friends will be jealous. 

Other items not considered toys but keep your pets happy when they play with them can be purchased in other player’s shops and various Neopian shops:

1. Musical instruments
   


2. Books, which also increase your pet’s intelligence when you read the books to them.
   


3. Items to groom your pet and make them look pretty.
   

1. The Mystery Island Tiki Tours is a good place to go. Cost of tour: 50 Neopoints
   


2. The Roo Island Merry-Go-Round is also a good place to take your pet. Cost of tour; 50 Neopoints
   


3. The Kiko Lake Glass Bottom Boat Tours
   


4. The Maraqua Kelp Restaurant is another place, but it is extremely expensive.
   

Your pet's happiness level will drop if they stay sick for a long time. Diseases can be caught from certain events such as: wheels, Random Events and certain foods for certain species. If your Neopet is sick, they will look sad and beaten on your user lookup and on their pet lookup. You will not be able to battle in the Battledome. To cure them, you have to go to the Neopian Hospital
 
to see what kind of disease your pet has.

Once you know what disease your pet has you can find the medicine needed to cure your pet at the Pharmacy
 
or in other player’s shops. Once you have purchased the cure, go to Your Items; click the item and select Cure “pet name”, and your pet will be cured.

You can also cure your pet by taking them to the Healing Springs.
 
Note: Your pet will not die from any of the diseases he can catch in Neopia.
Be sure to read our guide on pet Illnesses and Cures.


Bad Random Events

Three random events may occur if you don’t take care of your pets properly, although they are rare.

Red random event: Your pet’s color changes to red. This happens when your pet is not happy, instead (s)he is angry. It can be bad if your pet is a rare color like royal.
 
Blue random event: Your pet’s color changes to blue. This is just like the red event except for the fact that the color is different, and it happens when your pet is sad. NOTE: Your pet doesn’t turn gray.

Invisible random event: Your pet’s color changes to invisible. While this may be cool for some people, for others it is not. This happens if your pet feels ignored, unwanted and unnoticed.