Hiiii, I'm back after 17 years! ♡＾▽＾♡

[Bunni]

Hiiiii everyone! ♡

My name is Bunni and I'm a 30-something year old living in Canada.

I first played Petz 4 back in the year 2000. I have loads of wonderful childhood memories from that time thanks to the game, the petz community, and running my own website called Lily Water Kennelz & Cattery (LWKC). I made so many awesome online friends through the community who I became very close with via AIM and MSN Messenger! Sadly, I have lost all contact with them since.

It's incredible how a virtual pets game allowed me to make so many online friends (who were especially important to me at the time because I was experiencing a lot of bullying at school) and encouraged me to learn HTML, CSS, and Javascript! Big thanks to P.F Magic for creating this fantastic game. (Btw- I just learned what the P.F allegedly stands for, ahaha!)

After reading a nostalgic article last week on Medium, I decided to redownload the game to play again. I also did a few quick Google searches and found, to my surprise, that the online Petz Community is still alive and well! I'm really excited to join it again and hopefully open another petz website soon. I just registered the domain funfetti.net for this purpose last night! ^_^

Here is the article incase you'd like to go down memory lane as well:
medium.com/@melissamcewen/petz-a-lost-community-of-mostly-female-coders-gamers-2eb0e1a73f42

If you run a petz website, or know of any active ones, please drop the links below! I'd love to visit and possibly adopt a pet or two to add to my crew.

Thanks so much for reading!

xx
Bunni

[Rho]

Yaaaay Bunni you're here!!! Welcome! I'm so excited to see what you make!

[Bunni]

Nov 21, 2020 11:25:58 GMT -5 Rho said:

Yaaaay Bunni you're here!!! Welcome! I'm so excited to see what you make!

Hiii Rho! Thank you so much! ^^
I've been playing with Oberon all morning. I'm so happy to have adopted him from your site! ♡

[smonikkims]

Wow it's so exciting to have you back! We've not spoken before as I wasn't a part of the Petz community until 2017. But hearing your account of what it was like back in the day is so fascinating! I hope you'll find that it both has and hasn't changed a bit <3

[Bunni]

Nov 21, 2020 12:25:20 GMT -5 smonikkims said:

Wow it's so exciting to have you back! We've not spoken before as I wasn't a part of the Petz community until 2017. But hearing your account of what it was like back in the day is so fascinating! I hope you'll find that it both has and hasn't changed a bit <3

Ohh smonikkims, thank you so so much! I'm really happy to be back and to make new friends with you all ^^

[gingerade]

Welcome! I read that article too, definitely awesome to learn the impact that Petz had (and is still having!), I'm glad it led you back ^^ I look forward to seeing your website when it's up!

[Bunni]

Nov 21, 2020 14:50:41 GMT -5 gingerade said:

Welcome! I read that article too, definitely awesome to learn the impact that Petz had (and is still having!), I'm glad it led you back ^^ I look forward to seeing your website when it's up!

Hi Gingerade! Thank you so much ^^ I just went to check out your website and omigosh... HOW CUTE!! I absolutely love your layout and graphics... and of course, the SODAPUPS!! They're all so adorable! ♡

[gingerade]

Ahh thank you so much, I appreciate that a lot! ;.; I'd love to link you when your site is live, so please let me know when it is ^^

[leashykitty]

Hello! Welcome! Glad to see you back. I'm fairly new to the community but I've been having loads of fun! There's a link to my website in my signature (though it's kinda always under construction XD) you can take a look if you'd like. :3

[Kel]

Hello and welcome back! It’s not uncommon to hear about Petz dragging people back in.

I’ve been playing petz since 2000 and part of the community since 2001, but don’t think I remember you or your old site (but my memory is also crap so there’s that lol). Can’t wait to see your new one once it’s up and ready!

[Bec]

Hi welcome back! Good to see you back!
-Bec-

[Bunni]

Nov 21, 2020 23:17:21 GMT -5 leashykitty said:

Hello! Welcome! Glad to see you back. I'm fairly new to the community but I've been having loads of fun! There's a link to my website in my signature (though it's kinda always under construction XD) you can take a look if you'd like. :3

I just had a look! You have such a lovely site! I'm so excited to be seeing all these retro style websites. They make me so happy! ^^

[Bunni]

Nov 22, 2020 0:35:12 GMT -5 Kel said:

Hello and welcome back! It’s not uncommon to hear about Petz dragging people back in.

I’ve been playing petz since 2000 and part of the community since 2001, but don’t think I remember you or your old site (but my memory is also crap so there’s that lol). Can’t wait to see your new one once it’s up and ready!

Thanks so much Kel! PS. Love your avatar... whose line is it anyway? was such a great show ^^

[Bunni]

Nov 22, 2020 5:16:04 GMT -5 Bec said:

Hi welcome back! Good to see you back!
-Bec-

Thank you Bec! So happy to meet you :3

[Thor]

Hello! I found petz again too because I watched some video about it and discovered that someone had made a patch for it to work on newer operating systems O: I was so impressed!
I wish I had joined the community when I was a kid and played this game, but alas, I never did.
I learned about HTML/CSS from Neopets and Myspace! I wish I had gotten into the petz community tho ;o;

It's nice to meet you!