How to Help Pound Pets

by goldensaluki (w/ help from NeoPets River__, _Sand_, Feralgatr, and fghgfhfc)

There are many ways to help pound pets. The best way is to adopt one as your NeoPet! Don't create, adopt! But you can only have four pets, and many of you already have three or four NeoPets. Another good way is to promote NeoPet adoption when you can. I don't know how many NeoPets are in the pound, but in the pound it says there are over 100. I suspect the number is far more! The best way to help them, I think, involves painting them. If you have four pets you will need to create another account to do this.

To start, buy a bunch of Christmas Paintbrushes. These are very affordable, well under 1000 NP. Buy as many as you can afford, keeping in mind that you will need to pay to adopt and abandon the pets you will help. Why Christmas Paintbrushes instead of codestones or PetPets? All of these help the pets, but out of them the paintbrushes are best. Codestones are very pricey, and although they can raise the skills of pets, there are many level 2 pets and strong pets in the pound already! If you find a codestone it is best to sell it and use the NP to buy four or so Christmas paintbrushes! PetPets do not show up when someone is searching for pets in the pound, and if someone finds out a NeoPet has a PetPet, they may adopt it, take away its PetPet, and abandon it again.

Next, go to the pound to adopt needy pets you will paint. You have to adopt pets that can be painted with the Christmas Paintbrush. Luckily, many pets that are less likely to be adopted can be painted with Christmas paintbrushes, such as Nimmos, Eyries, and Buzzes. Try to adopt the more common species, and only adopt pets that have low levels. Other good pets to adopt are ones with very bad names. A Nimmo named Butterfly_Wings is more likely to be adopted than one named dummmmbbb or dfdfdd74383.

Now to take care of the pets. Many pets in the pound were neglected by their former owners, and many need to be fed. If a pet is dying you will need to feed it a food item, such as Neocola or a red apple. Then go to the soup kitchen and feed all the pets until they're bloated. Buy some toys and maybe some books and play or read to these pets. Remember, this is the only human they've had much contact with since they were abandoned, and they haven't had much fun in their lives either. When you've done this, it's time to start painting! Go to the Rainbow Pool and paint all the pets.

Now it's time to say good-bye to the pets. You will have to put them in the pound, but they will not stay there for long. Go to the pound and go to the abandon desk. Although the pets will be very sad that you are abandoning, they will soon find it did them more good than bad! I've painted and returned 16 pound pets so far (On my other account). All of them were adopted in a few minutes! If a pet is not adopted quickly, then post a message or two on the chat boards. It will soon find a home! (You can find out if a pet has been adopted by typing its name into the search box. A profile of the pet will be shown, and it will say whether the pet is in the pound or has an owner. If it has an owner it will show who the owner is! You could even write the adopter a thank-you Neomail.)

If a lot of Neopians start doing this, the pound will have many Christmas-painted pets! That will actually be good. People who are just starting NeoPets will choose to adopt a pet from the pound rather than create one, because they will know they can find a cool painted one instead of the normal colours! Hopefully, many of you will try painting some pets and help the homeless NeoPets in the pound find new homes!