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Toca Life: Pets provides an open-ended, cute, and playful pet paradise for kids to explore and enjoy. Toca Life: Pets is available on the App Store and the Google Play Store for $3.99. This app is rated for users of all ages and features no additional in-app purchases or advertisements. Toca Life: Pets is a safe app for kids.
What is Toca Life: Pets?
Toca Life: Pets provides an open-ended, cute, and playful pet paradise for kids to explore and enjoy. Kids interact with 23 characters and care for up to 124 animals, both real and imaginative, including cleaning up after their animals, bathing them, dressing them, training them, and more.
Toca Life: Pets is available on the App Store and the Google Play Store for $3.99. This app is rated for users of all ages and features no additional in-app purchases or advertisements.
The lighthearted and colorful animation common to all Toca worlds sets a tone of safety where kids can let their imaginations run. There are five different locations, each with different themes and possibilities.
In the Veterinary, kids care for sick or injured pets.
At the Breeder’s Bungalow, the pets are playing in the mud and grass, with different toys and props, and kids can clean up dirty pets in the bathtub after they splash around.
The Pet Park there is a river, grass for picnics and play, and props to set up an obstacle course to train pets.
The Pet Hotel has plenty of different rooms to explore and furry, slithering, and winged friends to meet.
If pets need grooming, food, or a new toy, the Pet Shop has it all, and a pet friendly café for a break from all the shopping! Kids can dress pets in different outfits found in the cabinets and storage spaces, and clean up the pee and poop that their pets leave behind.
The in-app recording feature allows kids to capture a story or video up to two minutes long, recording their voice as they interact with the pets, props, and characters on the screen.
Is Toca Life: Pets safe for my kids?
Toca Life: Pets is a safe app for kids.
The Toca Life series of apps is designed for kids, with both their safety and enjoyment at the forefront of the developer’s mind. This app is best for ages 4-12, as the features, animation, and gameplay favors a younger age group, but certainly does not exclude older kids who love pets and have a creative and imaginative disposition.
Without violence, foul language, in-app purchases, or sexual themes, parents should feel safe when kids are playing Toca Life: Pets. The open-ended nature of this app really lets kids exercise their imagination, moving pets and characters around the different locations, dressing them for different roles, and creating stories about the scenes they set up.
Parents should encourage kids to share with them their stories and the world they make.
Toca Life: Pets also begins to lay the foundation of the responsibility that comes with pet ownership, as kids learn to clean up after the animals, feed them, and bathe them.
It may be useful to talk about these responsibilities in the game, using the conversation as an opportunity to introduce new responsibilities with family pets, such as feeding or yard cleanup duty, which helps kids learn the importance of following through on family participation.
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