At 10:00 PM PST (1:00 AM for me), GoPets servers were shut down.
While I have complained about the economy system for the game, this was what eventually led to it's demise.
The economy was not sustainable by the few dedicated players and the changes that were brought in seemed to only exasperate the problem.

I'll need to make a proper dedication sometime, but I made a few friends and came to love my bubble-headed pets:



Mochi the Pixie Pet (pictured on far right in top picture): My first pet on far right. I wanted to make a lilac kitty and she was the one I used to make specific customs for. She had little wings I got early on and I made her a sparkly dress and a ponytail that she would model. When jobs were introduced, she became a tailor, but not a very good one. Her transportation of choice was the Otter Hot Air Balloon and lived in a magic tree stump on my Private Land. She had a dragon pet that another player gifted me.

B.K.(pictured on right center in top picture): This was my first dedication pet. Before losing my home, we had 2 cats, one being a slight little girl named, B.K. She disappeared after the hard transition into new homes my siblings and I faced. The dedication to her was a GoPet of the same name that I think I'll miss the most. She had the same tabby and peach colored markings on her body and wore a customized pink throwback shirt and a sky blue uniform skirt. Her job among my pets was a Farmer. She had a greenhouse in a barn that she would harvest as well as from the Giant White Mushrooms I had on my land. Her transportation of choice was a Black and Orange Chinese dragon and she lived in the GoPets treehouse hideout that was an arcade inside.




Chuck(pictured on far left center in top picture): Chuck was my second dedication pet of a beagle-terrier mix I once had. He was my only fellow among the girls and my first GoDog. He ended up as my Cook pet and made meals for my GoPets all the time. His place was a out door diner I customized for him:

His transportation of choice was a black race car and he wore a regular chef outfit. He was shadowed by a sad blue penguin pet.

Sera(pictured on far left in top picture): My last GoDog pet was a joke I went with based on the comic but had appearance origins in a gift I received when I was 1 year old. Sera got the full custom Greenie outfit and became my fishing pet. She or Mochi would usually be the one to accompany me to other players lands. When fishing, she would have a fishing robot in tow to assist her. The one time she fished up an old eyepatch, it permanently became part of her outfit.
She made her home on one side of my main land with a obviously pirate feel to it.




A lot of work (and money) went into my lands (I had 2 and a private land). I made a few customs to pay for some of it, but even with all the trouble, it was enjoyable and I will miss it.
For my dedication pets, it was like losing them all over again. A lot of players had dedication pets as I did. With Sera and Mochi, a little whimsy was fun.
The community was great and the chat blew up with international goodbyes as the IKU system allowed us to chat without words getting in the way all the time.

When the sun set on the Jungle Retreat, my pets were playing and doing all the normal things they would be at any other session. They were full and PKE was up. Maybe the game will be revived sometime, but even if it isn't, it was a good way to go.

~Obaba