WhyPets: Are They Worth It?

Sure they're cute and playful. And yeah, there's bragging rights. But are WhyPets really worth the cost?

A Whypet costs 600 pearls, and you get 30 days worth of food included in the price. If you want, you can also buy accessories to dress up your pets, or treats to aid in training them.

You can customize your whypet's shape, colour, eyes, and mouth. You can add ears, wings, arms, horns, tails, or even tentacles!

The Create Your Pet page has similiar features as the new Pick Your Nose, such as move forward and backward, and clear.

How to Train Your Pets

When in a chatroom, type "summon pet" or "summon pet (name)" if you have more than one.

You can train your pet to blink, yawn, run, cry, dance, sleep, fetch, dig, and be happy.

To train your pet, make sure your pet is in the room and type "pet (command)". For example, "pet fetch". Reward your pet with a treat by typing "pet treat" or "(name of pet) treat" if there is more than one of your pets in the room. Eventually, they will have learned the command.

One cool thing you can train your whypet to do is dig. Just don't let your pet dig up CityHall's yard! Once you train your pet to dig, they can dig up projectiles, clams, scion decal vouchers, or even sometimes pearls! To retrieve the item, simply move your avatar over your pet and the prize. If you don't claim it, your pet will drop it, and it's anyone's game.

Now hold on to your horses, that's all fine and well, until you realize that projectiles are worth almost nothing. They're a clam a dozen these days, and most likely they're clogging up your satchel. Scion decal vouchers? Who uses those anymore? (Also probably clogging up your satchel). "But wait!", you say. "You said clams and pearls, right?" That's right I did, but this does not happen often, and when it does, it's only 1 clam or 1 pearl (at least what I've seen). So don't think buying a pet will pay for itself eventually.

Let's not forget, if you want to train your pet/s to dig, you're gonna need to buy pet treats also (which cost pearls), and then you're going to want to accessorize your pets so they can be as fab as you (which costs more pearls).

Are they worth it?

Pets cost you a lot of pearls, and trust me, they get boring after a while. To answer the question, "Are Whypets worth the cost?", I would have to say no. There are better things to spend your pearls on (like face factory vouchers).

Here are my three pets, the pink one is Lucy, the green is Rocky, and the purple is Trouble. Rocky is dancing in this picture (and jelloroks is clearly not amused).

Everything You Need To Know About Pearls (Including How To Get Them FREE)

**Note** Scroll to the bottom of this post to get to the good part, how to get FREE pearls!

What are pearls?

Pearls are a form of Whyville currency that are purchased with real money that give you special perks to enjoy on Whyville. Pearls replaced the whypass and buying clams features that Whyville had years ago, but you still have mostly the same benefits. When you buy pearls, you are contributing to helping keep Whyville running.

What can I do with pearls?

• You can purchase face factory vouchers to create your own faceparts.
• You can buy premium Elvis and Raven Simmone themed face parts.
• You can buy a WhyPet.
• You can beautify your chat with Chat Candy.
• You can use your pearls like clams in Akbar's Face Mall, the Projectile Shop, The Furniture Farm, and The Brick Emporium. Sorry, you cannot use pearls to use at the Style Studio or the Trading Post.
• With a monthly pearls allowance, your satchel holds twice as many items (1000).
• With a monthly pearls allowance, your address book holds twice as many people (100).
• With a monthly pearls allowance, you can wear twice as many face parts (50).
• With a monthly pearls allowance, you get on-the-grass seating at the Greek Theater.
• With a monthly pearls allowance, you can buy animated face parts.
• With a monthly pearls allowance, you have twice as many friend finder locations (10).

How Do I Buy Pearls?

Ask a parent and click the pearls icon at the top of your screen when you log in or select *Buy Pearls on the destination bar.

How Much Are Pearls?

• 500 pearls costs $5
• 1200 pearls costs $8
• 2500 pearls costs $15

Do pearls expire?

Nope!

Can I Buy Pearls With Clams?

No. However, you can ask someone who has pearls to buy you face factory vouchers or animated face parts in exchange for clams. Be cautious about this though, they could try to scam you.

and finally...

How do I get FREE pearls?

Good question, there are lots of ways to earn FREE pearls!

• For Y-mail Helpers, earn pearls for being the Y-mail Helper of the Month. First place gets 500 pearls, second and third places get 250 pearls, and the rest of the top ten get 100 pearls.
• Log- in Challenges. These happen every so often, and all you have to do is log in on 15 seperate days during the month to earn 100 free pearls. BONUS: If you log in on 30 seperate days during the month, you will not only get the pearls, you will also get a FREE one-month WhyPass, which gives you all the perks of a pearls allowance!
• For Club Why Members, you can test the PlayMath Beta games, and when you review four out of five games, you will receive 100 free pearls!
• When you own a Whypet, you can train it how to dig. They can dig up clams, projectiles, vouchers, and sometimes even FREE pearls!
• Vampire Power. Earn the most points playing Vampire Power and you could earn 100 FREE pearls. If you come in second place, you will receive 50 FREE pearls, and in third, you will receive 25 FREE pearls. This contest goes on every week, so get to unplugging!
• Wilson City Rescue. Earn the most points in Wilson City Rescue and get 100 FREE pearls. Second place, receive 50 FREE pearls, and third place, receive 25 FREE pearls.