New Cash Shop Items
Flower Fairy	Secret Garden	Magnificent Mystery Box

New Clothing Store Items
Pet Face Yellow Tee	Yellow Jumper
Beach Bikini	Beach Shorts
Green Flip Flops	Cork Hat (TWS)
Highland Kilt	Highland Shoes
Tartan Dress	Woolly Boots (TWS)

New D.I.Y. Depot Items
Blue Beach Mat	Red Beach Mat (TWS)

Sydney View Window (TWS)

Bondi Beach Floor

Bondi Beach Wallpaper

Uluru Rock (TWS)

Outback Floor (TWS)

Outback Wallpaper (TWS)

New Food Store Items
Choc Top	Snack Roll

New Furniture Store Items
Blue Beach Chair	Red Beach Chair (TWS)
Wooden Outdoor Chair	Wooden Outdoor Table
Surfboard Decor	Tasmanian Devil Plushie (TWS)
Boomerang Wall Decor (TWS)	Kangaroo Plushie
Loch Ness Plushie (TWS)	Bagpipes Decor (TWS)

New Garden Store Items
Eucalyptus Tree With Koalas (TWS)	Waratah

New Luxury Store Items
Beach Hammock	Luxurious Sun Lounger (TWS)

New Fish
Kangaroofish

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A funny thing happened after I spun the Lottery Wheel, a pop up window appeared which gave me the option of sharing 50 bonus coins I had received to my friends. It works sort of like the Great Hideeni gifts which you post to your Facebook wall and in order for your friends to claim the prize, they’ll have to click on your wall post which launches Pet Society which then automatically credits your pet with 50 coins.

Only the first 5 friends who claim the bonus coins will get it, if you’re not one of the first 5 and try to claim the bonus coins you will receive a message saying the bonus coins have already been claimed. But you can always look through your Facebook news feed to find other friends who have posted the bonus coins.

I think this is a good feature, it’s free money and all we have to do before we log in is scroll through our news feeds to see if any of our friends have posted the bonus coins.  I hope Playfish increases the amounts since 50 coins just isn’t too appealing, now 500 bonus coins is more like it.  What are your thoughts in this new bonus coins feature?

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Usually the new mystery items give you an idea of what the theme will be for the new items to be released next week Monday. I’m assuming the new items are going to be Australia themed since the big giveaway is the Aboriginal Teddy since aborigines are the indigenous people of Australia. Also since Australia is known for its beautiful beaches the Sunscreen Decor and Dame’s Sunnies are essential items when you’re at the beach. Furthermore, Australia Day is January 26 so I’m pretty sure next week’s items will be Australia themed. As for the Yellow Hoodie, this is a special item created from the poll Pet Society did recently for creating a new yellow top for fellow player Tristan. So what do you think of these new mystery items?

New Mystery Items
Yellow Hoodie	Sunscreen Decor
Aboriginal Teddy	Dame’s Sunnies

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For those interested in making a donation to Haiti you can now visit the Playfish Haiti Donation Page to make a donation.  If you didn’t know by now a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck near Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince on January 12th, 2010.  This devastating event has caused catastrophic destruction leaving many people homeless without basic amenities such as food and water.  If you would like to donate simply visit Playfish’s Haiti Donation Page with help via the Mercy Corps Organization:

http://www.mercycorps.org/fundraising/playfish

You can then click on the maroon “Donate now >” button which will bring you to the donation page where you can donate via MasterCard, Visa, American Express or Discover.

On a sidenote, Playfish will give every player of Playfish games a special item if $100,000 in donations are made over the next two weeks.  As of this post the total raised so far is around $15,000.  Free gift or not, Haiti desperately needs our help.  Help Haiti and donate now.

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When you login to Pet Society you’ll notice a Facebook banner on the top of the game which gives you the option of receiving Facebook notifications in your email rather than on your Facebook account.  It states “Soon, applications won’t be able to send you notifications on Facebook.” so if you would like to keep receiving them you have the option of the notifications being sent to your email otherwise you will not receive them at all when they decide to disable them.

Your notifications can be found on the bottom right of your facebook toolbar.  This is where you usually get notices of friends who have visited and hugged, kiss, danced, etc. with your pet in Pet Society.

Personally, I don’t really check my notifications, so getting rid of them doesn’t really bother me at all.  I also wouldn’t want to receive them in my email either as my inbox is usually full of stuff anyway.

What are your thoughts of Facebook disabling Pet Society notifications? Did you decide to receive your Pet Society notifications via email?

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BMB: Paper Pinwheel
GMB: Bear Mask
GMB: Lifebuoy Deco

Mystery Items being removed this week
Paper Pinwheel	Bear Mask	Lifebuoy Deco

So get them while you can as soon these items will be as rare as a fox plushie, well maybe not that rare.

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New Furniture Store Items
Green Plastic Curtain Strip (TWS)	Groovy Teddy (TWS)	Orange Plastic Curtain Strip
Groovy Sofa	Groovy Mirror (TWS)	Groovy Armchair
Groovy Table	Groovy Chair	White Groovy Shelf (TWS)

Groovy Pet Wall Sticker (TWS)	White Groovy Bookcase (TWS)
Black Groovy Bookcase	Black Groovy Shelf

New D.I.Y. Depot Items
Retro Circle Pattern Wallpaper	Retro Stripe Wallpaper
Orange Groovy Window	Black Groovy Window (TWS)
Retro Red Carpet Floor	Retro Cream Carpet Floor
Simple Black Wallpaper	Simple White Wallpaper

New Gadget Store Items
Green Groovy Lamp (TWS)	Orange Groovy Lamp
Groovy TV Decor	Flip Clock

New Clothing Store Items
Groovy Hair Band	Groovy Pink Dress	Groovy White Boots
Groovy Shirt	Groovy Trousers	Groovy Shoes

Bouant Wig	Afro Wig (TWS)

New Cash Shop Items
Groovy Star Poster	Fruit Fairy
Hippo Pond	Mountain Gorilla Plushie
Forest Elephant Plushie	Leatherback Turtle Plushie

New Food Store Items
Groovy Sandwich

New Fish
Groovy Teddyfish

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There are a couple of new improvements that Pet Society has made for players.  Pet Society has “now made it easier to earn coins in Pet Society” with the implementation of a couple things.

• We can now earn more points by taking care of our pets.  We now receive +4 coins for brushing or bathing our pets and friends pets.  I used to brush and bathe my pet and friends pets to earn coins in the beginning but I found that by adding more friends, you earn more coins faster by visits rather than brushing or bathing pets.  This is still a great way to earn coins if you have a limited amount of friends but I wish they increased the amount of coins we get for visits as well.

• We can now sell cooked food for double the profit which may or may not persuade players to cook more.  I think the main reason players cook is to someday get that Cheesy Mayor and not for profit.  The dishes with huge profits usually take 8-24 hours to cook anyway so this doesn’t exactly make me jump out of my seat.  Now if they lessened the cooking time for each dish to say 1-5 minutes then that’s what I call making easier to earn coins.

• Trees are also reportedly been made to produce more fruit.  Now I never was a fan of harvesting fruit from trees since the time it takes for a tree to produce one single fruit varies from days to eternity.  So when they say fruits will grow more often I’m not exactly thrilled about this either since it doesn’t exactly give a timeframe.  Now if they state that one fruit will grow every 15-30 minutes, then I’ll plant 18 trees right away but for now I’m sticking to planting vegetables.

• If you haven’t heard, Pet Society is giving a free Fan Gift to all players who are fans of the Pet Society Facebook Fan Page.  If you’re not a fan of the Pet Society Facebook Fan Page you can still receive your gift by becoming a fan by January 20th, 2010.  Simply visiting http://www.facebook.com/petsociety to become a fan and receive your free gift.

So what do you think of the improvements made on earning coins in Pet Society?  Have you been able to earn more coins with these improvements?

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