Let me just begin saying thank you to karenuk, as it was after reading her intriguing opinion on neopets.com that I decided to check it out. Little did I know that these neopets were capable of brainwashing me into thinking that I was some kind of god, controlling there hunger and fun and wisdom etc, which has made me sit up night after night, caring for and training my neopets in order to reach there full potential. I have neglected my home, my work and my family; I have been more interested in my Ixi, Zafara, Elephante and Pteri! I’ve built them a shop so I can buy and sell to their advantage, I’ve built them a home which I can decorate just to their liking, I have in fact spent the last two and half months being completely obsessed with four man-made technological graphics and I have been dumb enough to think of them as actual pets. So, as I was saying THANKYOU VERY MUCH INDEED karenuk!

After you’ve registered on the neopets website you will be presented with the option of creating a pet, you have lots of different species to choose from, then what sex it is and then give it a colour and a name – there are very few names to choose from and many people end up having numbers at the end of there names. There characteristics are generated randomly and its just pot luck I’m afraid, these things include health, mood, hunger, strength, defence, move, intelligence, all of these can be improved in one way or another, but I like those ways are for you to find out by yourself. My neopets are Jazmex the red Ixi, Zafardous the blue Zafara, Kaitecor the yellow Elephante and Wockyaspinall the red Pteri. You may think I was lucky with the names, well I was actually, except for the obvious, however Wockyaspinall was originally a red Wocky (It wasn’t a very inventive name I know) and one day she played with a toy that she shouldn’t have and it turned her into a Pteri…but that’s another story. Anyway where was I, oh yes, if the name thing really niggles you – it did me too – then you can always check out the neopian pound and have a look at all the pets that have been abandoned, there are a great number of those that have pretty decent names, they do cost money however, so I suppose it just depends on how badly you get sucked into the whole thing – I simply could not cope with the pets crying in front of me, and combined with my desire for names without numbers on the end I adopted all three! So those are the ways to obtain your pets to begin with.

The 'create a pet' page is obvious actually, this is where you either create or adopt a pet – You can have a maximum of four pets at any one time.

From the world link you are taken to a page where you can access statistics of the neopets site, a how-to-draw your neopet section, warnings about neopet hackers and much more useful information.

The explore icon takes you to a map of the whole of (known) neopia, the links will takes you to all the discovered worlds so far such as terror mountain, tyrannia, meridell, haunted woods, neopia central, virtua pets space station, krawk island, faeirieland, lost desert and Mystery island. All these places are huge and have access to games and shops and markets and absolute neo-musts like the tombola and the neopian wheel of fortune. There is also a secret monster hidden somewhere on the map, but I wouldn’t disturb him if I were you.