Game Description:
Purrfect Pet Shop puts you in charge of an animal adoption center, caring for strays as they arrive, matching them with the perfect owner. Nurse your own customizable dog or cat back to health, choosing from thousands of possible combinations. Earn the animal`s trust by playing with toys, careful grooming, and the occasional tasty treat. Use donations from satisfied customers to purchase upgrades and special items to get your friend ready for adoption by the end of the game.
Game size: 43.5 MB
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Review from: GameZebo

And the pet games keep coming. Game developers must think those sweet animals will urge casual gamers everywhere to play. The time management game Purrfect Pet Shop combines caring for the cuties in an animal shelter with matching them to the right owners.

Purrfect Pet Shop resembles Paradise Pet Salon in that they involve feeding, providing medical care, and bathing the animals. Each day you take in pets and prepare them for adoption by bathing them, vaccinating them and feeding them. Customers arrive with a certain kind of pet in mind that they want to adopt, and you match the animals to their requests. You must rely on your powers of "dogtecting" to figure out what animal each customer wants. Customers provide one characteristic of the pet they want (such as fur color or size). If that isn't enough, you can click an icon in the customer's thought bubble to reveal another characteristic (customers request up to four traits).

Sometimes it's difficult to tell traits apart. The animal size icon looks like a T (or a flat line for the tiny ones) and the icons for a small and medium animal look too similar. This is also a problem with colors - especially the brown and orange families. Seeing the needs of those animals in the far left display proves tricky as their icons blend with the customer.

Stacks of dollar bills act as customers' tail wagging meter. The stack shrinks when customers wait too long, you make a mistake with their orders, or don't give them a completely happy pet (in other words, one that is still dirty, hungry, or sick). Pets need to be as happy as possible to earn the full tip. Those giving pitiful looks indicate they need care.

Sofia and Peter, the pet caretakers, have a tendency to block the view of some stations so that you can't tell when the animals using the stations finish. Although animals reappearing in their cages is a way to know they're finished with the station, having a blocked view irritates.

Clicking animals, stations, and owners doesn't always take. You think you're putting the cat in the tub when a big "NO" appears over one of the owners indicating you are trying to connect the owner with the cat. Clicking can start to feel like hard work, and between taking care of the animals quickly and meeting customer needs, it gets a little dicey...
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Review from: Game Mile

According to the story you are one of two siblings (male or female is up to you). You get a call from your Nana. She disparately needs your help at her pet adoption center.

And - guess what? - you are willing to help. Your character shares her love for poor stray animals and would love to work in a place like that.

After a short tutorial by Nana you get it started. What you do is you serve the customers that come to buy a pet for themselves.

Apart from that there's a special pet you take care of in between the levels. After every level you can also go to the shop and buy some upgrades or toys for your pet...
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Review from: Casualicious dot Com

The Purrfect Pet Shop game puts you in the shoes of a teenager (with your gender preference) taking care of a very busy animal adoption center after your tired and sick grandma (I’m not very sure with this) goes on a vacation to relieve her stress. After a hard day’s work, you will also have to take care of the “pet of your dreams” as you gather enough loyalty hearts for your own pet to love you. And of course, any Time Management game won’t be complete without a way for you to upgrade the tools of your trade.

Here’s the thing, the objective of the game is very simple. Just match a prospective owner to his/her ideal (or in this case, purrfect) pet and earn donations in the process. Of course, you have to prepare a pet for adoption too before sending them off, since I don’t think anyone would like bringing home some stinky dog now, would you?

Anyway, that’s how far the main game play goes. But there’s also this little mini game where you’ll have to take care of your own pet, which involves you doing various activities with him/her. Honestly, it’s kinda cute and all, but I find this mini game quite pointless and its objectives very unnecessary. I mean, you don’t have to walk your dog around the park for 5 times, bathe him/her for 3 times afterwards, then inject him/her with some kind of chemical twice all in just 1 day. Got my point here...
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