PetzA

PetzA is a tool created by Nicholas Sherlock of Sherlock Software. It allows for a huge variety of helpful features for most Petz games as well as Babyz, and also turns the demo version of Petz 4 into the complete game. Once installed, PetzA runs in the  folder.

If you have a version of the game which is slightly different than what is required (for instance, if you have the Petz game  from the Catz CD, but PetzA requires the   file from the Dogz CD), then PetzA will automatically download and install the new version for you.

Download the newest version (from 2019) from Github here or older versions from Sherlock Software's website here or archive.org here.

Supports

 * Petz II
 * Petz 3 (English and German)
 * Petz 4
 * Petz 5
 * Babyz

Features

 * Allows Pick A Pet to be clicked through for an unlimited number of Petz to be out at once.
 * Reduce the size of oversized .pet files with the family tree trimmer
 * Petz can be instantly mated and puppies/kittens born instantly as soon as the mother is let out and back in. Allows picking of Petz 5 litter sizes.
 * Fixes Petz 3 sound lockups on Windows XP and Vista.
 * The speed of the game can be adjusted.
 * Petz can be neutered, unneutered and have their sex changed.
 * "Brain sliders," either individual or collective of every pet out, allow for changing features like age, weight and hunger.
 * Save and organize profiles containing specific groups of Petz.
 * Allows camera pictures to be saved as .gif and .png files.
 * Supports the English versions of Petz II, Petz 3, Petz 4, Petz 5, Babyz, and the German version of Petz 3.

Stats
PetzA stats information goes here.

Energy
How tired a pet is.

Fullness
How hungry a pet is.

Fatness
How overweight or underweight a pet is. Adding or removing clothes to a pet will change their visible fatness to 50 for a brief period, but it does not change their slider.

Sickness
Sickness makes Petz cough and sneeze. By default, all Alley Cats have this value set at 100 permanently..

Catnipped
How long the effects of Catnip last.

Fleas
By default, all Alley Cats have this value set at 100 permanently..

Horniness
The higher the horniness value, the more interested in mating a pet will be. Songs on the Music Box with "Love" in the file name (LoveAccordian, LovePiano, and LoveStrings) all have an effect on horniness.

Neglect
A pet with maxed Neglect will run away and will need an external program such as Runaway Rescue to retrieve them. Various actions in the game will increase a pet's neglect by a small amount. Neglect can be lowered by feeding treats, petting, I'm going to have to test this.

Age
Newborns start at 0 and turn into Infants at age 6. Infants turn into Puppyz and Kittenz at age 12 and adults at age 30. Left untouched, they will gain 3 age points a day.

Newborn Petz will show the default Adoption Center name of their breed personality in the Brain Sliders menu.

Shortcuts
Dotty of Petz Community Gathering made a small yet very handy program that adds two-key Windows hotkeys for fast breeding. The program must be started separately from Petz, and depending on the version of Windows you're running, you may need to disable the inbuilt Windows+G hotkey command, as in this tutorial.


 * Windows+M: Mates the top two pets listed in the males/females selection.
 * Windows+G: Makes babies grow up.

The shortcut can be downloaded from archive.org here.

Glitches

 * In some games, you may find that the game will crash if you're taking snapshots and choose "Take other Petz/Babyz photo" with more than four Petz/Babyz in the scene.

Petz II

 * If you click on the "bring out" name of an already-out Pet, the game will crash.

Petz 4

 * Mousing over the grayed-out name of an active Pet in Pick A Pet will sometimes bring up a screen-covering white screen. This can be dismissed by hitting the Escape key.

Petz 5

 * Aging up some babies in a litter via brain sliders may corrupt the mother's file.