Welcome to the Beginner's Guide to CS Store Pets! 
Inspired by the many other excellent guides we have, I figured a guide for our awesome store pets was in order. This guide will cover all adoptable pets that were available to be purchased with Chicken Dollars (C$). Knowing the history of our CS Store pets is an important factor in understanding how much they're worth. Let's begin, shall we?
-- 2009 Store Pets --
October 2009
In our celebrations of Chicken Smoothie's 2nd Halloween, we saw the first ever adoptable pet to grace the C$ Store! On the first day of the Halloween '09 Candy Hunt, we found this little guy in the Store:
Released on October 22nd, this Skeleton Bunny was designed by Vampiric and cost 35C$.
Soon more pets began to join the Skelebunny in the store!
Released on October 27th, the Halloween/Orange Cerberus - inspired by the 3-headed dog of Greek and Roman mythology - was created by Malk and cost 44 C$.
Fun fact: The Cerberus was the most expensive single store pet to date. Tess mentioned later that she originally hadn't thought of how much it'd work out to in real money!
Added to the store on October 27th, the Drink Me and Eat Me dogs were designed by Hoshiko (now known as Selcouth) in the theme of Alice in Wonderland. They cost 25 C$ each and were not available in a set, so they had to be bought seperately. The Drink Me was most popular, so more of those ended up being adopted.
This was the last of the Halloween releases. The Cerberus and Skeleton Bunny remained in the store until November 17th. The Drink Me and Eat Me dogs were left in the store until February 1st, 2010, which is why you see so many more of them around.
December 2009
On the 21st of December, we saw our very first growing litter in the store! Designed by Mausoleum, this litter is referred to as the Lion-tailed or Puff-tailed Store Dogs. They were available for 20 C$ each, and as a special offer you could buy all three in a set for 50 C$.
Individually referred to as the Green & Black Lion-tail, the Jewelry Lion-tail, and the Nonjewelry Lion-tail.
Their listing in the Store gave you a preview of the three different adult outcomes, but the newborns all appeared the same when you adopted them.
If you adopted in a set, you could only tell them apart once they reached their 2nd stage:
Fun Fact: The jewelry and claws appear on every puppy, but disappear from all but one when they fully mature. This was an intentional design choice by Mausoleum.
This set was available until February 1st, 2010. This information was placed in the news feed, along with an exciting announcement regarding future Store Pet releases:
Inspired by the many other excellent guides we have, I figured a guide for our awesome store pets was in order. This guide will cover all adoptable pets that were available to be purchased with Chicken Dollars (C$). Knowing the history of our CS Store pets is an important factor in understanding how much they're worth. Let's begin, shall we?-- 2009 Store Pets --
October 2009
In our celebrations of Chicken Smoothie's 2nd Halloween, we saw the first ever adoptable pet to grace the C$ Store! On the first day of the Halloween '09 Candy Hunt, we found this little guy in the Store:
Released on October 22nd, this Skeleton Bunny was designed by Vampiric and cost 35C$.
Soon more pets began to join the Skelebunny in the store!
Released on October 27th, the Halloween/Orange Cerberus - inspired by the 3-headed dog of Greek and Roman mythology - was created by Malk and cost 44 C$.
Fun fact: The Cerberus was the most expensive single store pet to date. Tess mentioned later that she originally hadn't thought of how much it'd work out to in real money!
Added to the store on October 27th, the Drink Me and Eat Me dogs were designed by Hoshiko (now known as Selcouth) in the theme of Alice in Wonderland. They cost 25 C$ each and were not available in a set, so they had to be bought seperately. The Drink Me was most popular, so more of those ended up being adopted.
This was the last of the Halloween releases. The Cerberus and Skeleton Bunny remained in the store until November 17th. The Drink Me and Eat Me dogs were left in the store until February 1st, 2010, which is why you see so many more of them around.
December 2009
On the 21st of December, we saw our very first growing litter in the store! Designed by Mausoleum, this litter is referred to as the Lion-tailed or Puff-tailed Store Dogs. They were available for 20 C$ each, and as a special offer you could buy all three in a set for 50 C$.
Individually referred to as the Green & Black Lion-tail, the Jewelry Lion-tail, and the Nonjewelry Lion-tail.
Their listing in the Store gave you a preview of the three different adult outcomes, but the newborns all appeared the same when you adopted them.
If you adopted in a set, you could only tell them apart once they reached their 2nd stage:
Fun Fact: The jewelry and claws appear on every puppy, but disappear from all but one when they fully mature. This was an intentional design choice by Mausoleum.
This set was available until February 1st, 2010. This information was placed in the news feed, along with an exciting announcement regarding future Store Pet releases:
All us CS folk simultaneously jump for joy and bemoan our dwindling pocketbooks.We're going to be releasing new store pets every 2 months, which will only be available for 2 months each. Normally, we will be releasing them on the 15th of the month, but this time we'll be releasing the set a little early - the new set will be available on February 1st.
Miscellaneous Fun Facts for 2009:
1. When the C$ Store first opened in August, people glimpsed a mysterious dog that had never been released before. D: It was taken down quickly, but that December a few sharp-eyed users recognized the UR Dog as the newborn version of the dog that had been accidentally posted in the shop months before! This is why in the days following December 18th, people were seen referring to the UR Dog as the "Mystery Shop Dog". X3
2. Previous C$ store pets were also among the many pets re-released on December 18th, 2009.
