Shops around town

Pet Society has a thriving in-game economy and launches new purchasable items to each of the stores every week. The application attracts new users through its long continued efforts to stay updated, bringing new features such as "Recycling", "Garden", the Pet Society Photo Album feature and the Pet Society Fishing Pond. As of March 2010, Pet Society offers the following stores and places in its standard village:

• Market - A new store in which you can find here all kinds of exciting things like toys, party gear, musical items, cool gadgets and more.

• Stadium -

• Food - Here pets can find typical fruits, vegetables, meat products, drinks, etc. The Food Shop oftern offers weekly special items which sometimes reflect specific holidays or events. For example, Zongzi was sold for one week in the 2009 May 28 Dragon Boat Festival. Other holiday food items have also been offered for holidays including Halloween and Christmas.

• Furniture - This shop supplies various tables, chairs, couches, beds, shelves, cabinets and other furniture items.

• Gadget - Sells electronic items, such as TVs, radios, telephones, clocks, and laptops.

• Mystery - The Mystery Shop sells Snow White,Stone Age,Food Booth,Fairy, Fairytale and Toy "Mystery" Eggs and Mystery boxes. The Fairy eggs contain one of a selection of items that can be used for a themed room (such as fairy lamps, leaf carpets, fairy bed, etc.) as well as different elements of a fairy's wardrobe. Items which come out of Fairy "eggs" can be gifted to friends that play Pet Society. Both the Fairytale and Toy Mystery eggs contain either backdrop scenes (for example, a yellow brick road backdrop) or elements to place into that scene (such as the cowardly lion). While the Fairytale and Toy eggs can be gifted to Pet Society Friends, the items which come from the eggs cannot. The Mystery boxes can contain items currently in the other stores in Pet Society as well as special mystery items which are indicated by a "?". Mystery boxes come in three sizes, a small red box or "RMB" (Regular Mystery box), a medium blue box or "BMB" (Blue Mystery Box), and a gold large box or "GMB" (Gold Mystery Box). The value of the items inside of the mystery boxes can vary greatly, with a maximum resale value from the GMB being 999 coins. The "RMB" cost 50 yellow coins and the "BMB" cost 200 yellow coins and mostly, the "GMB" cost 500 yellow coins. All items which come out of a Mystery Box can be gifted to Pet Society Friends. Also there are 3 other new egg sets like the Faerie eggs, Food Booth eggs, Autumn Faerie eggs and Fortune eggs which give the player furniture and clothes to the theme which the egg is.

• Café - A more recent feature, the Café is a social bonding service where the player can visit random players' houses, meeting their pets. The player can also buy typical coffee-shop food and tea sets here.

• D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) - This place is where players can shop for wallpapers, floors, doors, Bathroom sets, Cabinets and windows.

• Clothes - Here players can buy clothes, shoes, hats and accessories for their pet to wear.

• Art - A relatively new update, the Art store allows players to shop for wall art, sculptures, and art related items.

• Stylist - Players can change the name, color and features (e.g. eyes, nose, ears and such) of their pet.

• Bank - Allows the player to buy more yellow coins and cash here using Paypal to spend in the other shops. There are also offers which can be completed to earn coins. These may include surveys, credit card offers, or club offers (such as movie clubs or coffee clubs). The amount of coins (yellow) which can be earned varies with the offer. Reimbursement periods also vary, with some offers being instantaneous, while other offers can take a week or longer. The yellow coins can be used in all shops except for the Cash Coin Shop.

• Cash Shop - This is one of the newest shops. Players can only get Playfish Cash with a credit card or by premium text message. Playfish Cash cannot be earned by normal game play but players can exchange 500 or 1000 coins for 5 or 10 Playfish Cash. This in-game currency is used to buy special items found only here.

• Garden - The latest addition to the stores in the game, the player can buy plants and different seeds for his or her pet's garden here. The vegetable seeds yield vegetables that grow in size as time passes, but these can rot if not watched carefully (or ignored for too long). It has a variety of 3 seeds. Vegetables, flowers and trees. There are different variety of each. The trees bear food like cupcakes and bananas and many more kind of food every few days. Since fishing has started in the game, the player can find aquariums here. They can also buy Scarecrows, Shelters, Plants, and even Flower cases and Plant Fertilisers used to grow instant plants.

• Pond - Players can catch and collect fish (and various other items) by using any food they have as bait. Fish can be shown to friends by placing them in an aquarium. They can also be recycled or sold, but not gifted. If the Bait is bought from the Cash shops, they can collect Glow-in-the-dark fishes, Halloween Fishes, and the Holiday-season Fishes. Collecting 3 of the Pro-Fishing Clothings will be elligible for getting an ancient fish.

There are also basic tools provided in Pet Society. These tools are upgraded when the player's level gets higher.