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Shopping Cart Preview Here is a preview of the shopping cart on FP3! Look how nice it is! You can load up your cart in multiple shops. If you accidentally click out of the shops, that's ok, as soon as you come back your cart will be back as well and it will remember your choices. This lets you add a bunch of stuff in to see how much it might cost to get a matching set of items for your pup. In this example, I was selecting all the green things!

But sometimes you just want to buy something real quick, so that is what the green "Buy" button is underneath the items. The cart icon will add it to your cart instead.

You can see the side menu there, which is collapsible if you'd like to get it out of your way to see more items at once!

Just one of the many ways that FP3 is going to make FP better than ever before!

I will try to have another preview for you next week. Maybe the Item page, with the new mass assign feature?


Tag URLs? From the last update, restricting you to not be able to specify your own URL to your tags has been met with mixed reception. The reason for that change was to make sure that if you had a tag on FP, people could see it without any problems no matter where they are from, since some image hosting sites are blocked by different countries and it can be difficult to even realize that when you're setting your tag URL. But by doing so, those of you using "rotating tags" lost the ability to do that. So what do you think? I'd like to get a better idea of where the majority are at with this. Thanks!

Edited to add: I'm wondering how many of you think I should give the option to either upload your tag or provide a tag URL? Or is it better to leave it as now to avoid viewing issues?

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Tags Hosted On Site! Your user, kennel, and chat tags/avatars are now hosted on site! You can no longer provide a URL to your tag (although old URLs have been preserved). From now on to have a tag show up on Furry Paws, it will need to be hosted on here as well! Hopefully this will help eliminate some issues that players from different countries around the world have been experiencing as more restrictions on image hosting sites have been added. For our upgraded account players, I encourage you to upload your tag to our site as soon as you are able, for this reason. Upgraded accounts can do so from their Kennel Settings.

Puppy Shade Variations Did you know that there are different "shades" of dog fur colors on FP, and that these are tracked genetically? Well, previously the generated puppy images didn't take into account the puppy's shade variation, so the appearance would change (slightly) every time the puppy's image was loaded. This has now been fixed, and puppies will show their proper shade! In addition, dog and puppy pages now list what shade variant the dog has. And as a small teaser, in FP3 shade variant is going to be a measure of how rich the dog's color is within that color. So for a red dog, a shade variant of 1 will be a lighter red, and a shade variant of 5 will be a richer red. It isn't that way now, but I wanted to give you a heads up that if you're going to try to breed for specific shades, the appearance might be changing down the road.

Kennel Overview Kennel Overview has gotten a facelift! I suspect squinting at tiny 8x8 pixel images is bad for the eyes, so now the entire table cell is colored to reflect the status. If a dog is completely cared for, their row is grayed out. There is also a link at the top to allow you to hide completed dogs, and a counter to indicate how many dogs are completely cared for.

Past Advent Images The Advent Calendar now has a link to a gallery that shows off past advent calendar images! All of this beautiful art was done by Fez, our main site artist, and now you can enjoy the Advent art from years past! Throw her a cookie if you have enjoyed her advent calendar art over the years!

Random Event Tweaks The random event "Investigate" modal will now show up in the middle of your screen, even if you are scrolled down. In addition, it has been disabled on the kennel overview page.

Broken Return Link for FPP Purchases I've been informed that the page Paypal sends you to after buying FPP had a broken link. That should be fixed now, and I also made a nice "Thank you" page to send you to -- there wasn't anything like that before!

Best for last Snow (#900) has been working on revamping some of the old item art, and the ancient Interact and trophy/ribbon art! It is always a little sad to see the old things go because of nostalgia, but she has done a wonderful job and I'm thrilled with the new look! This is just the first round of updates, there will be more to come! Throw her a cookie if you're happy with her work!

Old Item Image Updates

Trophy and Ribbon Updates

Ok that was a lot! And that doesn't even begin to cover all the progress I've made on FP3! But since there was so much in today's update I'm going to wait a few days before updating you on FP3. Gotta spread it out, make it look like I'm working hard. :)

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Be Aware It was recently brought to the mod team's attention that some of the sites that users commonly use for image hosting often show inappropriate advertisements. This is not an issue if you are just linking to the image on the site, but it is an issue if you visit the image directly in your URL bar, or visit the hosting site itself. So this is a PSA, be very careful when going to sites outside of the Furry-Paws.com site! In particular, be wary of postimg.cc, imgbb, and imgur links, posting a link for someone to visit that image directly, or clicking on such a link yourself. Again, if you use use the image as a user avatar via your user settings, or just have it in an img tag that's shouldn't cause problems.

And to be clear, you only have to worry about that in areas of the game that other users can modify, like on the Forums, user messages, user kennels, etc. The main Furry-Paws.com content will never link to those sites.

The mods have suggested using Google Photos or toyhou.se as alternative image hosting services if you want a place to host your images that you can send people links to without running the risk of bad ads.

I'm making plans to update FP to allow upgraded users to upload an image for the three they are allowed (user tag, kennel tag, and chat tag) for FP to host to help avoid this issue entirely, but it could take some time to finish development so I wanted to go ahead and post this disclaimer right away.

On the topic of ads And on the topic of inappropriate advertisements, if you ever see an inappropriate ad pop up on FP through the Google Ads service we use, please don't hesitate to report it to the modbox! It is most helpful if you can figure out what the website url is so we can block it directly, but you can also take a screenshot or tell us the text on the ad and I can try to find it that way.

Thank you for your help in this area! We want to keep the content you see on FP as PG & clean as possible.

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Here's an update on some of the updated features in FP3!

Registration Flow Check out the video of our new registration flow on mobile! With a live preview of the dog you selected, options for oauth registration (creating an account with your google account directly), and a smooth three step registration flow, joining Furry Paws will be a nicer experience than ever.

View Registration Video Preview


Logged in view And here's some previews of the logged in view for desktop and mobile as well.




Maybe not too terribly exciting? But next time I'm going to show off something more interesting -- a shopping cart for the item shops!

Feel free to leave feedback below! I read everything, even if I don't reply, and I appreciate hearing your thoughts.

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Bug The handout for the 8th day of the advent calendar was broken, but it's fixed now! If you tried to collect it while it was broken, you can recollect it now.

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Containers and Chests Regular Food Containers and Toy Chests can now hold 500 servings at a time! This is a drastic increase for the regular toy chests and long overdue! In addition, all "rare" tier toy chests now have 3,000 max servings. Rare tier food chests already allow 3,000 servings and remain unchanged.

Who wants to clean anyway? The "Clean Container" action now has a confirmation page, so you can make sure you REALLY want to trash all the servings inside the container before you clean it. And also making it harder to do so on accident.

Duraplush Improvements Duraplushes are now EXTRA fun for your dog! They are a premium item and should have stats to match! As a result, they now give 50 happiness per play session.


Festive Pony The Festive Pony is available in the FPP Shop for 5 FPP until the end of December! _{And don't worry, you'll likely see a new duraplush released "soon"}

So many exciting things are in the works, I can't wait to share more with you! But this is it for now.

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Discord The (Un)official Furry Paws Discord has become the Official Furry Paws Discord! A link is now available to it from the main Chat page if you would like to join for Furry Paws discussion off site. If you are a newbie helper, there are also channels set aside for you to ask questions on how to handle tickets or chat with fellow newbie helpers.

Image Bank The image bank is currently scheduled to stop accepting entries on January 1st, 2026. Unfortunately, the image bank has become a rather broken system that does not get much participation, but adds a significant amount of moderating work. Only a handful of new entries have been added to the IB over the past few months and a large amount of submissions we receive have various copyright violations, or we suspect the use of AI. It has become quite a large burden to maintain compared to the value it brings to the site.

In 2026 and the foreseeable future, the artwork there will still be available for use and for your viewing pleasure, although at some point we may go through and prune what images are kept.

There is a chance I may re-open the image bank eventually, but I'm currently leaning toward showcasing the art talent of our players in a different way on FP3. With the help of our mods, I'd like to run semi-regular art contests with significant prizes instead. I think this would do a fairer job of rewarding artists, give better bragging rights, and involve the community better than the current image bank.

Entries will be accepted until January 1st, 2026, after which I ask that our image raters try to finish up rating the remaining submissions.

We are changing our rating policy slightly as well and will be disqualifying anything we suspect has a copyright violation or used AI without requiring proof. Part of the burden of the IB is that it has been so incredibly difficult to moderate fairly, especially in recent years with the rise of AI art. But even before that, copyright law is confusing, and many players have felt their submissions DQd unfairly, even when we felt we had very solid evidence of copyright violations. It's just messy. So please forgive us if your submission is DQd unfairly. We invite everyone to post any work that is truly your own on the Art Nook if you wish to share it with FP. We simply can't take the risk of accepting artwork to become part of the main site if there's even a shred of doubt about copyright.

In 2026, once the final submissions are rated, any player who managed to get a submission into the image bank will receive the Image Bank Contributor reputation, and all image bank raters will receive the Image Bank Rater reputation.

I'd like to invite all users with a PRA to join us as image bank raters to get through the pending submissions. There are quite a few and we could use your help! If you have a PRA and would like to help, submit a modbox ticket to volunteer.

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ADVENT The Advent Calendar is now open! Check back every day to receive that day's prize and uncover the mystery image. Happy Howlidays to all!

Last day of the sale! Today is the last day of the Black Friday sale!

For those of you who initiate a purchase through Paypal, but Paypal has you wait several days before the payment clears, don't worry! If for some reason you don't receive your bonus FPP or reputation even though you started your purchase during the promotional period, please submit a ModBox ticket once you receive your FPP and the mods will escalate your situation to me, and I'll manually give you the extras.

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BLACK FRIDAY SALE! From now until December 1, buy 10 FPP and get 1 free! You can also earn a special reputation for making a single purchase at certain tiers:


IMPORTANT: Only one of these reputations can be obtained, and a higher tier reputation will replace a lower tier reputation.

FPP can be purchased here: Purchase FPP


Elite Price Increase Announcement The price of elite account upgrades will be increasing to 60 FPP for a year and 7 FPP for a month starting in 2026. So if you are planning to purchase an elite, it might be good to do so before then!


As always, I very much appreciate your support as it allows me to continue spending time working on this site, especially all the extra time I've been spending on the rework! I am very excited about the progress being made on FP3 and am looking forward to sharing more with you soon!

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Ideas Welcome You might like to know that I've asked some volunteer mods to look through the Suggestions Board to find ideas for popular improvements to make to FP's website. For the most part I'm looking at ways to improve the experience for the game that already exists as opposed to new features. But I wanted to let you all know that this is going on, because maybe you have some ideas in your head that you think would really improve FP, but haven't bothered to post, and this might be the best time to do so!

I can't guarantee that every idea will be implemented but I will definitely be taking a serious look at the most popular suggestions and I work my way through the rework.

Thank you!

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Gift Extension The 2025 Birthday Gift has been updated so that it can be collected until the end of the year. If you haven't yet, be sure to collect yours before then! Click Here

FP3 Sneak Peek FP3 is my working title for the updated version of FP! I've been hard at work behind the scenes on putting it together and I wanted to share something I'm very excited about that will be part of the updated site: Dark Mode and Fluid Design!



The updated layout is designed with multiple screen widths and touch devices in mind. The layout scales with your screen size (up to a certain maximum) and also provides an altered nav menu experience for touch devices.

Dark mode will be automatically be set based on your system preferences, but can be changed with the click of a button.

I'll be sharing more updates as more progress is made!

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The Cloudflare changes initially helped quite a bit, but the bots eventually learned how to bypass those protections, so I've been working on some changes to prevent them from being able to do so. You may notice the site stop working for a few seconds here and there as I apply different changes. Thanks for your patience!

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Happy 22nd Birthday! Today is Furry Paws' 22nd birthday! Click Here to receive a special birthday gift to celebrate!

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Trick or Treat? The Trick or Treat event has begun! To participate, look over at the column on the right and click "Turn On" next to "Lights OFF"! Then, visit kennels of other players, choose a dog, and ring their doorbell. If your doorbell gets rung, you get the chance to trick or treat your visitor! Tricks will do weird things to dogs. And you never know what someone might give you as a treat, maybe it will be something really awesome!

Duration The event begins today, will last until end of day on November 7th, and you will be able to cash in rewards until November 14th!

Earn Rewards! Check out the Trick or Treat Rewards page to collect rewards for your trick or treating adventures!

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AHHH POODLES The Miniature Poodle has been added to Furry Paws! This is a long time suggestion with over 400 supporters. Miniature Poodles are part of the Versatile dog group and have access to the all breed sports.


New Wolf Critter A new wolf critter, the Fierce Dark Wolf, is available in the FPP Shop for 5 FPP until the end of October. Will you chance befriending this fierce creature?

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I am moving forward with a FP rewrite, basically option #1 from the previous news post. The focus will be:

• Keep the overall look the same, but give myself flexibility to change components within the layout to speed up development time and add some more modern options


• Modify the main layout to be fluid so that it displays well no matter what screen you are on (mobile, tablet, or browser)


• Maintain accessibility for screen reader users as much as possible


• Maintain as much backwards browser compatibility as possible without sacrificing the ability to bring the tech up to date for the next decade or so


• Keep the site light weight and quick to navigate and load


• Update the entire tech stack so that the core game will be functional for (hopefully) another decade or so

I am very excited for this! Programming is one of my favorite hobbies, and I'm looking forward to jumping back in and learning some new tech!

Thank you for all of the thoughtful replies to my previous news post. Reading everyone's feedback was very helpful and encouraging! Hearing of the dedication so many of you have for the game has made me feel like my time and efforts to update FP won't be wasted. I feel the way forward is much clearer than before.

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The current version of Furry Paws was released in 2012. In the 13 years since, technology has moved on, and pretty much the entire tech stack that FP is built on is very outdated and out of support. We are doing ok, and the site isn't under any risk of collapsing any time soon, but I have been aware for some time now that the "technical debt" that is stacking up in the background will need to be paid at some point if FP is to continue into its third decade.

This technical debt has made it difficult for me to want to add any new features to the game, because I know that anything I add now will have to be re-written in the near future.

In some ways it seems absurd to me that a little game like this would be talking about trying to make it to its third decade! FP is nothing fancy. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the newer modern games on your PCs, phones, and tablets. By any logic it shouldn't still be here! But the community here is incredible, and the community response to the recent struggles with the server and DDOS attacks have emphasized that to me in a major way.

That said, I want to be thoughtful and considerate as I work on planning FP's future and take into consideration your thoughts and opinions.

To help FP continue, the first steps for me are simple, but labor intensive. I need to update all the code in the game to be compatible with newer versions of our tech stack (PHP and CodeIgniter being the major two that will be intensive). With me combing over the code anyway, there's also the opportunity to completely update the front end, which is the interface you interact with. So here are some options I'd love your feedback on:


OPTION 1 I could keep everything looking (mostly) the same, but update the underlying CSS/Javascript to be more future proof technically. With this option, there would be some changes, but it would mostly still look and function the same as it does now.

OPTION 2 I could completely update the look and feel of the game, modernizing the look and feel of it to be more in line with today's standards. This option would be the best segway into creating a *true* mobile friendly interface for FP, with a look which is more in line with what all of us are used to seeing on our phones when we go to a modern website.

OPTION 3 I could leave the front-end as is. I'm not as worried about the front end breaking or becoming so out of date that it doesn't work. It should be *mostly* fine. The main benefit of this is it would reduce my work load to bring FP up to date in the back end by half. It would also help patch up some security vulnerabilities from out of support tech libraries and provide better protection from various kinds of attacks, including the one we just experienced. The other options would do this as well but choosing this option would help that be done sooner.


To be clear, what we are talking about here is not about changing any gameplay. It's only talking about changing how the game looks, and maybe some of how you interact with the game.

Regardless, this is going to be a lot of work for me, so whatever I do I want to make sure it's for the benefit of FP, and not something that will alienate a bunch of people in our community (as much as is possible, anyway!)

Also to set expectations, my life right now is pretty busy with family and kids, so the rewrite will be done in stolen hours of early mornings and late nights. So we could be talking about changes that take a year or more to implement.

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

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As far as I can tell FP has been running well today! As a result, I've re-enabled the dog and litter nightly scripts, so dogs and litters will age tonight as normal.

In addition, I've added 7 days to any current elite account upgrades to help make up for the game time lost from FP's issues lately.

If anyone is missing FPP from purchases made while we were under attack please open a modbox ticket and include your transaction ID and the mods will escalate it to me so I can take a look and make sure you get what you purchased.

Thank you for playing and supporting FP!
-Kah

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We got hit with another DDOS attack today. Unfortunately, just tweaking the server variables wasn't enough to mitigate the attack so I went ahead and added Cloudflare's protection to FP. It took it a little while to kick in properly but it does seem like it was successful in limiting/stopping the attack. However, as the site was down for a lot of the day dogs and litters will again not age tonight.

I'll continue to use Cloudflare for FP for the time being so that the game remains accessible despite future attacks, but my goal is to get it configured to where it is as unobtrusive as possible. So please let me know via this post if it is negatively impacting your experience on FP in a major way.

Sorry for not updating sooner but I had some other commitments today that made it difficult for me to access my computer for more than a few minutes here and there! Thank you for your patience as I work on dealing with these issues! I really appreciate the support from all of you and your kind words, and I do often read the comments you leave on the news posts! It makes a stressful situation much easier to deal with when I have your support and understanding. So thank you!

-Kah

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Furry Paws was hit with a DoS attack for the majority of the day today. I've been working on adjusting some server settings to try to help mitigate the attack, but unfortunately wasn't able to prevent the site from being down for most of the day. As a result, I've disabled the dog and litter portion of the nightly script, which means that dogs/litters won't age tonight. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience!

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