
I feel in love with a real-life Shetland Sheepdog when I was 10, and was really disappointed when I unlocked the virtual breed because it looked nothing like an actual Sheltie (but got a real one, four parent-nagging years later.)īetween 20, nearly 22 million copies of Nintendogs were sold. I couldn’t bear to rehome any of my puppies any of my puppies in the Dog Hotel or, God forbid, to rehome any, so I always had the limit of 3: a Labrador, a Husky and a Schnauzer. We’d do meet ups and try to work out how to get new breeds. I got the Labrador version one Christmas my best friend had the Dalmatian.


The shrieks of my Rollercoaster Tycoon customers faded away to the sound of joyful barks and the dulcet tones of puppy event commentators Ted and Archie.
