The Interface

Let's start in the top left corner of your game page.

The Virtual Pups Logo

will take you to the welcome page, where any updates or important information for all players will be listed, as well as advice on how to not be scammed. This is also where you can select your imported dog breeds and see how many imports you have left. Imports are dogs that have no parents and are used to start your own line of a dog breed.

To the right is a section that says:

Turns Available: Turns are granted one per hour, so if you are a novice and run out of turns, you'll need to wait until they build back up.
PlayCash Available: is how much money you have
Fame: is how much fame you've earned by eventing dogs or, as a sponsor, hosting events.
Available Fame Points: is how much fame you have not used
Click to Contact Support is a link to game support.

You can find out more about Fame Points in Additional Features .
If you need help or are having trouble with the game or with another player, support is where you want to go to get help. Please give as much information as you can to help support help you.

Buy Goodies and Upgrade

In the top right corner, are links to buy special colors for your dogs, import new dogs or even buy your own breed of dog. The upgrade link is how you can turn your novice account to a sponsor account.

The next line starts with your player name, kennel name and how many weeks you've had your account.

Each time you take a turn, it ages your account by a week. If you are a sponsor account, it will also tell you that here.


Take next turn is just that, it will take a turn.

My Kennel Tab
This is where you visit your 'dog houses' and dogs. An overview of all your dogs is displayed here and training options are displayed so you can quickly go through and train your dogs at your convenience. If you click the dog's name or the icon image next to its name, you will then zoom in and receive more details on your dog. Visit the Canine Section of the Help Files for more information.

Puppy Plaza
Here you will see a search option menu.


Kennel brand : Your dogs only get branded if you are a sponsor player, so if you are not looking for a dog from your kennel, leave this unchecked.
Player/kennel number : Only use this if you are looking for dog on a certain account, such as within a rescue.
K9 Name : Only important if you are looking for a specific dog, otherwise, leave this blank.
Breed: There are hundreds of breeds on the game, some are private breeds, which may not have any dogs for sale.
S ex : Gender of the dog. Neutered dogs are not able to breed.
Color : Unless you are looking for a specific color, you'd do best to leave this blank.
*All * Not For Sale * For sale Only * For Stud Only : Are you wanting a dog to buy or looking for a dog to stud or just looking at dogs in general?
Sort By : How do you want the dogs listed: Can be by name, age or price
Ascending means from lowest (1, A, 1 week) to highest (1billion, Z, 75 years) and descending the other way around.
Search retired dogs (only): Will only show the dog that have been retired to K9 Heaven. Those dogs cannot be brought back into the game
Search rescued dogs (only): Will only show the dogs that have been rescued.

Once you click search, a list will appear, click on the dog's name to look more closely at the dog and to buy or use it as stud.
If there are too many dogs that meet the criteria you selected, the game may tell you to narrow your search, so you may need to select only search females or males to narrow down the number.

Bark Park Tab
There are links here to search for other players, either by kennel name, kennel # or player name. Or just look at the list of players here. You can also search for kennels by sponsor type (breeding, training, etc). There are also links for top dogs, top kennels and club list. You can find out more in Additional Features .

You will see the bulletin board below. Posting on the Bark Park is a sponsor only perk. If you are a sponsor and you scroll all the way to the bottom, you will see the boxes used to post here, make sure you fill out the first box, or else it will be hard for people to see your advertisement. There is a time limit on how often you can post. Make sure to follow all the rules when posting.

You can also click here to check your private messages, jump to the forums, or view the updated top dogs & kennels.

Messages Tab
When the yellow 'flag' on your dog house is up, it means you have a new message.
After clicking on the tab, you will see:


In the From column, is the sender's player name, a link to view their kennel and beneath that, an ignore user link.
Clicking on the player's name will open the message.
Clicking on view kennel will take you to their kennel's public page.
Clicking on ignore user will make it so that player can no longer send you messages.
**Tip** Use ignore user when a player is harassing you or you are starting to lose your cool, so you aren't tempted to break the rules and then report them through the support link.

In the last column are actions you can do with the post. Reply, View or Delete the message.

If you scroll to the bottom of the page, there is a delete all button in case you wish to get rid of all your messages. Be careful though to not delete messages if you need to report them for breaking the rules.

Events Tab

Here is where you see a list of the new events open to everyone. You can view a list of completed events here zoom in and look at an event by clicking on the event name, and also create an event (sponsors only) from this panel. For more information on events, please visit the Events Help Files

Management Tab

From this panel, you can edit your kennel's public view pages. You can find out more in Additional Features . You can also change your email and password. **Tip** If you change your e-mail, you will need to reactivate the account, so always be sure the e-mail is valid and you can access it. You can also read the activity involving your dogs/kennel and many more options. If you are a sponsor, this is where you will also be able to choose your kennel specialty ( Additional Features ) and see the kennel type, expiration date and link your novice accounts to sponsor.

The My finances link will give you a rough overview of how much your kennel has made and spent and how it was made and spent.
My Bookmarks show the bookmarks you've made on dogs and/or players within the game and any bets you've placed/won. You can find out more in Additional Features
My Skills take you to the player skills page where you can spend fame points to improve specific dogs and also spend fame on different skills and choose what you wish to be known as "Breeder, Handler" etc.
**Tip** You earn fame points by eventing dogs or if you are a sponsor, hosting events.
Outstanding Contracts takes you to the contracts page (there is also a shortcut from any page in the game ). This is where you can lease your dog to someone else for training, breeding or eventing or accept leases from other players. Visit Additional Features to learn more about contracts.

While you were away is simply a list of things that may have happened when you weren't looking such as bids placed on your dogs, events that run that your dogs were in or bids accepted by other players.
Near the bottom of the management page is a search field for dogs in your own kennel.

Log Out/Privacy Policy/Terms of Service

It is always important to log out of Virtual Pups when you leave your computer, if someone gets on, we won't be responsible for their actions, however, if they break rules, you will be held responsible.
The Privacy Policy and Terms of Service should be reviewed from time to time to make certain you are aware of any changes.