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Community Poll It’s recently become clear just how passionate the community is about this topic — most people either really love the idea or strongly dislike it.

So we want to ask: Would you like to see an “auto” option that handles basic daily dog care (feed, water, groom, clean, play) for FPD?

Please vote in the poll and feel free to share your thoughts in the comments!

FP Socials Our social media is getting a fresh start now that I’ve stepped in as community lead. I’ll be sharing more regular updates, breed spotlights, and community highlights over on our socials.


FP Discord Have you joined our discord yet? We host monthly rare item raffles, Dog of the Month competitions, and its a great community resource for knowledge and game help.

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choose your own dogs Your dog pages now have an option under "Breed" to "Set as Breeding Female" or "Set as Breeding Male". This causes them to show up as selected on the Breeding Center page. This change allows you to take advantage of breeding your own locked dogs (see last update).

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Bug Fix Male dogs no longer regain "Breedings Available" while locked. This was a bug for an embarrassingly long time. Dogs are not supposed to recover any resources while locked!

Breeding Request Tweak Breeding Requests can now be completed even if one or both of the dogs involved are locked.

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introducing our new community lead FP3 is a big deal, and I want to set it up for success not just on the development side but on the community side too. I want to make sure that going forward, the community stays engaged and informed even when I'm deep in development (or busy with real life) for long stretches. With that in mind, I've asked Snow (#900) to take on an official Community Lead role.

Many of you already know Snow as the person who has played a key role in running and building up our Discord server and has been a dedicated presence in the community. In her new role, she'll be:

* Posting regular community updates and check-ins here on the site
* Running polls and discussions to gather your input on topics that matter to you
* Keeping our Facebook page active and exploring some new social media options
* Serving as a point of contact for questions and concerns

I'll still be around and will continue posting FP3 updates directly, but Snow will be a more consistent community-facing presence going forward. My goal is to make sure you all feel heard and in the loop, even when I'm buried in code.

Please join me in welcoming Snow to her new role!



You axolotl questions... The new Axolotl and Blue Axolotl critters are now available in the FPP Shop for 5 FPP until the end of the month! These critters are at home both in the pool, or in more traditional critter pastures (they come with their own imaginary aquarium!)


Pixel Agility Contest Results Thank you to everyone who entered the contest! There were so many great entries, and every single one of those entries represents a dog that is truly special and deserves to be praised. I enjoyed reading all of your stories and some of them were truly moving, reminding me of my own experiences training Chili!

The dogs who will be represented in Pixel Agility are:

Lily - Boston Terrier (Owned By: :) (#1722857))
Conan - Pembroke Welsh Corgi (Owned By: Bixby (#1680692))
Sapphire - Australian Shepherd (Owned By: Kioo (#462864))
Zebedee - English Springer Spaniel (Owned By: Fern (#1685235))
Ranch - Doberman Pinscher (Owned By: Thranduil's Elk (#1717346))

Alongside Chili (Border Collie), these should give some nice color, size, and shape variety for the game.

All other entries have received 5 FPP as a thank you for sharing your dogs and your stories!


IB Reputations Everyone who has an image that is currently in the Image Bank has been given the "Image Bank Contributor" reputation (if they didn't have it already)!

Attic Cleanup Your attics should no longer be full of blank item entries that accumulate over time.

Inventory Sorting Thank you for answering the poll about Inventory sorting! I am very glad I asked. I added some small links underneath the "Filter" input that allow you to toggle Sort By Name and Group By Type options. Your browser will remember your most recent setting for these.

Forum Auto-delete The Suggestions and Breed Suggestions board topics have been excluded from auto-deletion. A lot of great ideas have sadly been lost to this over the past few years, but at least those remaining will be protected!

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New Grooming Item Images All grooming tools have received a rework, thanks to Snow! Check out the updated artwork for your favorite brushes and combs:

Image Bank Raters Users who helped rate images in the Image Bank now have a shiny new reputation badge on their profile.

Bug Fixes Fixed an issue where fully groomed dogs could still appear dirty in certain situations. Your fully groomed pups will now look their best!

Empty Containers and Chests now show as having unlimited uses, which really makes more sense for what they are.

Inventory Item Order Lastly, I have a poll for you. I almost added this without asking, but it's arguably a large change to your inventory, so I thought I'd get votes first. Should the inventory be changed to show items in alphabetical order?

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Working on FP3 has made me want to know more about why you play FP.

What is it about it that attracts you to the game and that keeps you coming back?

How would you describe FP to a friend who's never played?

What's the moment you got hooked?

What makes FP different from other pet sims?

Your words might help me figure out how to introduce FP to new players, and also guide some of my decisions about FP3. Thank you!

Edited 1/27/26: All of your responses have been incredibly helpful in allowing me to identify the strengths (and even some weaknesses!) of FP. I'm going to do my best to preserve all the things you love about FP in FP3 and will use your feedback to establish some "guiding principles" for myself to guide development. Feel free to keep feedback coming, I'll check back from time to time. Thank you!

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It's been a few weeks since the last FP3 update, but I have been working! Here's another sneak peek...

Kennel Preview Your kennel page should look very familiar here! However, there are a whole lot of added features, including a very flexible search field that lets you filter by breed, age, level, gender, as well as by keywords, columns which support multi-sort, and bulk retire. There are some minor quality of life tweaks visible here, like showing how many dogs are in each property, how many dogs are in each kennel, and being able to minimize the kennel map if desired. Also, your non-kennel, non-litter structures are neatly grouped under an "Other" dropdown.



I've also completely reworked how your kennel is customized. Clicking on a structure (like a kennel or meadow) will cause a little settings cog to appear in the corner of of the structure image, and you can click that to open up the modify pane.



From this pane (which has been designed to work well on mobile as well!) you can choose which customizations you want for your kennel (along with previews!), you can move the structure to a different slot (even cross-property!), or the structure can be renamed/upgraded/deleted.

I really like moving this functionality onto the main kennel view page because it's here that you usually realize you want to change something about one of your structures, so instead of having to click to the manage page and re-find that structure, you can just change whatever you want to in place, and see it update immediately.

I'll have more to share soon!

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Our Privacy Policy has Changed! Just trying to keep up with the times and have a more "proper" privacy policy. Nothing has changed about how FP operates regarding privacy, this just more information now! You can review it here: Privacy Policy

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In my "Spare Time" So FP3 is taking up every spare moment I have during the week, but to keep myself sane and help avoid burnout, I've been letting myself work on little fun projects on the weekend. One of these has morphed into something more than I meant it to be, but I'm loving it.



The project is an app called Pixel Agility. It will be available in the app store for Android and iOS once finished. While it won't be available on FP until FP3 is launched, you'll be able to link your account to it and earn rewards daily in FP for playing on the app. It will be almost like an off-site minigame for FP until FP3 launches.

Pixel Agility features Chili, who you adopt and train in agility, and progress through harder and harder titles. You'll earn coins to adopt more dogs to train.

I could just randomly choose some popular agility dog breeds, but I thought it might be fun to invite the players here to post a photo of a dog they have trained in agility (current or past, either way, but it should be your dog, not someone else's!) and tell their story and what made them special to you. Bonus points if they were adopted from a shelter/rescue, but they don't have to have been.

To enter, reply to this news post. To qualify, your entry must contain:
1. A photo of the dog
2. The dog's name, breed if known, where you got them (generic is fine, don't need specific details), how old they were when you brought them home
3. Some details about their agility training, if you competed, if they liked it or any funny quirks about how they performed, etc!
4. (Optional) Any fond memories of them, their personality, things that made you laugh, or interesting anecdotes.

The deadline to submit is: January 18, 2026

Number of Winners: 3-5
Winners will receive: Plushie Chili, A-frame (a completely useless but nostalgic item from FP Beta), and 60 FPP

I'll specifically be looking for a tiny dog, a large dog, and maybe another medium sized breed, and looking for entries that I think would translate well into a little pixel version!

I am doing all the art for this myself, so don't expect anything amazing.

By posting, you grant Mythic Multimedia, LLC (Furry Paws' parent LLC) a perpetual, royalty-free license to create and use pixel art inspired by your dog in Pixel Agility and related promotional materials, including using the dog's name and incorporating details from your story. You confirm you own the photo or have permission to share it.

Looking forward to reading your stories!


Edited to add: Your dog doesn't have to have actually competed in agility, just trained some! Chili and I never competed, but we had a lot of fun going to classes and practicing together.

Edited to add on 1/19/26: Entries are now closed. I will spend the next week or so reviewing the entries. Thank you everyone!

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Tag URLs are back Upgraded accounts now have the option to choose if they want to specify a url for their tag or upload it to the site. Tag uploads have been improved as well by adding cache busting -- which means they should load properly now when you change them instead of appearing to be the old image.

Lots of Little Things In the overview, litters no longer count as not complete if you only picked one pup and could have picked more. An "All" filter has been added to the Inventory. The Renew listings button has been moved to the top of the Your Listings page. And Forum rules are once again shown prominently on the main forum page.

Edited to add: The site will warn you before you navigate away by clicking a link on the forums, user pages, or other user supplied content that you are leaving the site. Also, litter pups can now be aptitude tested at 0 days, to help avoid issues with people forgetting to pick pups because they were waiting for the aptitude test before they made their selections.


By Duraplush! The Snow Leopard Duraplush is now available in the FPP shop until the end of January for 8 FPP! Duraplushes can be assigned to one dog, never run out of uses, and increase happiness by up to 50 each time used. By DURAPLUSH!

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As previously announced, Elite account upgrade prices are increasing to 7 FPP for a month and 60 FPP for a year. I will be putting this change into place tomorrow, so today is your last chance to get an Elite upgrade for the discounted prices at the FPP Shop!

Thanks to everyone being understanding about the increase in prices. With the increased development I've been doing, and with some of the very major changes I have in the works that are keeping our main site artist very busy, you are all helping fund what I hope will be a wonderful continued future for Furry Paws.

Happy New Year Furry Paws! Exciting times ahead for us in 2026!

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Here's a preview of how the inventory and item pages are shaping up on FP3!

Inventory Stacks In FP3, your item stacks are all consolidated in your inventory. So even if you have a bunch of items with different uses, they all stack together.



Want to use a specific stack? In FP3, that's handled from the item page itself, with a nice little item instance selector. Look on the left of this page here and you'll see buttons to select which stack you are interacting with:




Improved Play Playing from the item page is better than ever in FP3! Clicking the "Play" button shows a little inline result. If you're in a hurry, you can rapidly click Play and queue multiple dogs to play one right after another. In addition, the dog list is more usable than ever with its interactive filtering options, and smart context aware sorting that lists dogs of matching personality and that need play before the others!



In FP3, I'm taking the approach of paginating dogs based on what kennels they are in. On our current version of FP, some people with ten thousand dogs or more can have trouble loading pages and sometimes strain the server, so adding pagination will help everyone out! Basically this means that you choose which kennel you want to see dogs from in the dog list. If you look at the screenshot above, you can see the Kennel dropdown near the top of the page. The site will remember what kennel you were interacting with most recently on your device, so as you navigate from page to page or item to item, you won't have to keep re-selecting the same kennel.


Mass Assign I've been implementing a lot of popular suggestions from over the years as I work through each page. One of those suggestions is being able to mass assign items to dogs with checkboxes. There are also buttons that allow you to select all, or select unassigned! You can even filter a dog based on some text, then click select all to select the dogs that match that filter. This should save you a lot of time when starting up a new line of dogs!



You can also see if the dog has an item assigned already, and, like the play page, dogs that are a good fit for the toy are listed first!


Shopping Cart Concerns I saw some concerns about the last fp3 preview regarding the shopping cart. And yes, there are some design considerations that will need to be addressed regarding shop restocking, price changes, and quantities. And while I haven't addressed everything there yet, I am very aware that it will need to be done and am planning on it! I do appreciate the constructive critiques as it did make me consider a few things I hadn't thought of, so for those of you who posted your thoughts, thank you for that.


These screenshots are such a tiny window into all the work that is being done! You might be interested to know that once FP3 is much closer to done (maybe in a year or so if all goes according to plan) I plan to open it up to testing to any current FP member. You'll be able to try all these changes out for yourself and give feedback after getting to experience it personally. Together, we can make sure there is nothing in FP3 that will be a major pain point prior to launching it for real, or at least as much as is possible! This includes things like screenreader accessibility and mobile device compatibility.

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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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