FooPet
There's a new breed of virtual pet that is surprisingly life-like.
But these computer applications are more than a game. They'll also be used to promote responsible pet ownership, safety, and heath.
FooPets, is a 3-D virtual pet that's similar to those seen on Myspace and Facebook.
Other cartoon virtual pets make simple movements and they aren't very realistic.
But FooPets, billed as "the world's most realistic virtual puppies and kittens," may just live up to the hype.
The lineup features a golden lab puppy that wags its tail, grabs a metal dog dish in its mouth and runs excitedly in a circle when food is poured in the dish.
There are also kittens that purr, stretch and meow.
FooPets stresses responsible pet ownership by requiring flea treatments, immunizations, and scheduled medications.
The FooPets maker, FooMojo, is partnering with the ASPCA and The Humane Society of the United States. There will be some incentives to make donations to these groups, but the FooPets are free.
The new application will be available soon and can be seen at foopets.com.
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I lost interest when I found out that this is hooked up with the HSUS, which rewards terrorists with high-paying jobs, and the ASPCA, which terrorizes honest businesspeople.
I lost interest when I found out that this is hooked up with the HSUS, which rewards terrorists with high-paying jobs, and the ASPCA, which terrorizes honest businesspeople.
7 Things You Didn’t Know About HSUS
(the Humane Society of the United States)
1. The Humane Society of the United States(HSUS) is a “humane society” in name only, since it doesn’t operate a single pet shelter or pet adoption facility anywhere in the United States. During 2006, HSUS contributed only 4.2 percent of its budget to organizations that operate hands-on dog and cat shelters. In reality, HSUS is a wealthy animal-rights lobbying organization (the largest and richest on earth) that agitates for the same goals as PETA and other radical groups.
2. Beginning on the day of NFL quarterback Michael Vick’s2007 dog fighting indictment, HSUS raised money online with the false promise that it would “care for the dogs seized in the Michael Vick case.” The New York Times later reported that HSUS wasn’t caring for Vick’s dogs at all. And HSUS president Wayne Pacelle told the Times that his group recommended that government officials “put down” (that is, kill) the dogs rather than adopt them out to suitable homes. HSUS later quietly altered its Internet fundraising pitch.
3. HSUS’s senior management includes a former spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front(ALF), a criminal group designated as “terrorists” by the FBI. HSUS president Wayne Pacelle hired John “J.P.” Goodwin in 1997, the same year Goodwin described himself as “spokesperson for the ALF” while he fielded media calls in the wake of an ALF arson attack at a California veal processing plant. In 1997, when asked by reporters for a reaction to an ALF arson fire at a farmer’s feed co-op in Utah (which nearly killed a family sleeping on the premises), Goodwin replied, “We’re ecstatic.” That same year, Goodwin was arrested at a UC Davis protest celebrating the 10-year anniversary of an ALF arson at the university that caused $5 million in damage. And in 1998, Goodwin described himself publicly as a “former member of ALF.”
4.HSUS raised a reported $34 million in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, supposedly to help reunite lost pets with their owners. But comparatively little of that money was spent for its intended purpose. Louisiana’s Attorney General shuttered his 18-month-long investigation into where most of these millions went, shortly after HSUS announced its plan to contribute $600,000 toward the construction of an animal shelter on the grounds of a state prison. Public disclosures of the disposition of the $34 million in Katrina-related donations add up to less than $7 million.
5. After gathering undercover video footage of improper animal handling at a Chino, CA slaughterhouse during November of 2007, HSUS sat on its video evidence for three months, even refusing to share it with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. HSUS’s Dr. Michael Greger testified before Congress that the San Bernardino County (CA) District Attorney’s office asked the group “to hold on to the information while they completed their investigation.” But the District Attorney’s office quickly denied that account, even declaring that HSUS refused to make its undercover spy available to investigators if the USDA were present at those meetings. Ultimately, HSUS chose to release its video footage at a more politically opportune time, as it prepared to launch a livestock-related ballot campaign in California. Meanwhile, meat from the slaughterhouse continued to flow into the U.S. food supply for months.
6. According to a 2008 Los Angeles Times investigation, less than 12 percent of money raised for HSUS by California telemarketers actually ends up in HSUS’s bank account. The rest is kept by professional fundraisers. And if you exclude two campaigns run for HSUS by the “Build-a-Bear Workshop” retail chain, which consisted of the sale of surplus stuffed animals (not really “fundraising”), HSUS’s yield number shrinks to just 3 percent. Sadly, this appears typical. In 2004, HSUS ran a telemarketing campaign in Connecticut with fundraisers who promised to return a minimum of zero percent of the proceeds. The campaign raised over $1.4 million. Not only did absolutely none of that money go to HSUS, but the group paid $175,000 for the telemarketing work.
7. Research shows that HSUS’s heavily promoted U.S. “boycott” of Canadian seafood—announced in 2005 as a protest against Canada’s annual seal hunt—is a phony exercise in media manipulation. A 2006 investigation found that 78 percent of the restaurants and seafood distributors described by HSUS as “boycotters” weren’t participating at all. Nearly two-thirds of them told surveyors they were completely unaware HSUS was using their names in connection with an international boycott campaign. Canada’s federal government is on record about this deception, saying: “Some animal rights groups have been misleading the public for years … it’s no surprise at all that the richest of them would mislead the public with a phony seafood boycott.”
Want evidence? Visit www.AnimalScam.com • www.ActivistCash.com • www.consumerfreedom.com
Revised October 2008. Complete sources and documentation available upon request.
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Teri
FOOPETS SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Join the FOOPETS SUCKS GROUP!
im with ya it sucks why do they want us to pay anyway
What a way to wake up right before Christmas. FooPets stole our Pokey puppies from us and expects us to register and pay to play. Sorry. I have real life pets to spend my hard earned money on. RIP my Sparky. I miss you.
FooPets is garbage and MOST Pokey facebook users want the old game back just the way it was.
hi
What are you guys talking about! ive had no problems, my only problem is that i cant figure out how to give them a flea treatment!
really cool and emo says it to couse we r emo?
Foopets Is A Wonderful Game In Which I Am A Regular User. I Myself Have Many Foopets And For The Person Who Complained About Foopets Taking Ur Pokeys Away I Know Several People Who Still Have Their Pokeys From The Old Pokey Days... Such As Eva Magkou. My User Name Is Wakwe U Can Also See That I Have Pokeys... I Have 4 Pokey Huskies And Puppies To Be Weened Shortly And I Also Have 2 Pokey Rotties! Oh Yeah And A Nutered Pokey Lab! Their Still There U Just Got To Look For Them!
hey billy your the one who sucks
Well, I'm writing this on 13 May 2010, I don't know if many people are going to see it but if you haven't seen foopets.com recently perhaps it's time to take a look. Many changes have occurred & it would appear to most players (& paying members) that they're NOT all for the best. Right now there is uproar over FooMojo introducing a new "Beta" play version that was full of problems & glitches yet still released onto the public despite many weeks of feedback from those chosen to test it warning foopets of the many, many problems. In their arrogance they went ahead, making it the only option to play in..& oh boy are there some very unhappy players out there in Fooland...there have been a great number of people quitting the game altogether & there are several efforts to raise awareness with the (so far) silent Fooadmins. Check it out. FooMojo are not above treating their paying customers like doggy-doo, sad to say....and to quote the great people themselves, "No publicity is bad" LOL!
It is December 17, 2010, and FooMojo/FooPets is on their way down. They have tripled the price of joining ClubFoo, raised the amount of FooDollars one must have to purchase items to decorate the pets' scenes, and begun to systematically ban all of the adult users that dare to speak out about Foo's checkered past. For instance, did you know that the founder, Dr. Ron Hornbaker, no longer practices veterinary medicine due to being a CONVICTED FELON? That's right, good ol' Dr. Ron was found guilty of posing as a women in AOL chatrooms to have cybersex with men, then blackmailing those men into paying him money! The FBI got involved when he sent a threatening letter across state lines to a 13 YEAR OLD. Dr. Ron and FooMojo know one thing and that is how to swindle money out of people. Recently it came to light that many items in the FooPets shop were copyrighted images. How did Foo respond? By banning the members that spoke out about this. Those left behind are now having to shell out 35-115 FooDollars (FooDollars, by the way, are bought with REAL DOLLARS at a rate of $0.10 US per 1FD so 115 FooDollars costs $11.50 of REAL MONEY. Does this sound like a website you want to let your children play on?
I agree! FooPets has gone down the drain... Now it is pay to sign up! I have been suspended once for speaking out against the ClubFoo prices, I think Dr. Ron needs to..... Put a sock in it! To put it lightly. And let me make this clear.... If they knew my Username on FooPets and ever saw this, I would be banned for sure. So STOP their money craze!!!! DO NOT JOIN FOOPETS it has become TERRIBLE in the eyes of what it used to be, as for a recommendation, you'd probably rather have a dead fish!
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