Domestic Dog

Domestic Dog is a dog simulation in which you manage a dog's needs, explore Dogstown and its surrounding areas, and try to stay healthy and alive. Each dog is unique and can be lost permanently.

Life as a dog

Play, eat, drink, exercise and sleep to maintain your health. You can bark, chase squirrels, dig for bones and coins, mark your territory with pee, and poop. You can also eat your own poop or pee on it until it disintegrates, but fleas and other dangers can threaten your dog. Low health can send you to the vet or kill you.

There are six needs to manage:

• Fitness: dig holes to stay fit.
• Happiness: play with toys, watch TV or play video games.
• Poop: go near a hydrant to relieve yourself.
• Hunger: eat dog food or other things.
• Thirst: drink from a water source; water also serves as ammunition for peeing.
• Sleep: nap at home to restore this need. If you get too tired, you fall asleep wherever you are.

Explore and customize

Explore Dogstown and nearby areas, including Woof Woods and the cemetery. At home, you can throw a Dog Party and invite random strange dogs, or visit Bark Buy and Dog Depot to customize your home and fill it with toys and gadgets. You can rob a dog food warehouse to secure a supply of food.

Digging also provides a workout, and you can find bones and coins. Arcade games include BoneMuncher and other retro games. Power-ups such as iced coffee and roller skates affect your dog, while music is available at home or on an iPawd; finding records adds more songs.

Dogs and their status

You hatch from an egg and can choose to level up your dog or start over with a newly generated one. The game includes 70 breeds across seven types, including normal dogs, robots, aliens and ghosts. Pup Boy K900 displays your current dog's information, status, stats and serial number.