Police Pets

Police Pets help you to get extra rewards. At the end of a crime scene investigation, they search the scene, and depending on which pet you adopt, they have a chance to reward you with coins, cards, experience (XP), energy, faster star fill-ups with a higher score, orange juice or potato chips.

Pet Shops
Currently, there are six available police pet shops in Grimsborough and two available police pet shops in Pacific Bay. The pets in the later shops are more expensive, but provide more generous bonuses and are more likely to find them.

The not-so-good news is that you are required to earn a certain amount of gold medals before a pet shop is unlocked. To earn a gold medal, you must get all five stars on every single crime scene in a case, including bonus scenes. The first case only has 15 stars, and the second case only has 30 stars. Every other case (starting from Case #3 and onward) has 45 stars. Remember you MUST get the bronze and silver medals first before you're eligible to get a gold medal for five-starring all crime scenes in a case.

What's more, gold medals do not carry over from city to city; for example, you CANNOT carry gold medals earned in Pacific Bay to satisfy gold medal requirements for pet shops in Grimsborough—therefore gold medals earned in one city are eligible only for the gold medal requirements for the pet shops in that particular city.

First Shop
The Industrial Area pet shop requires 2 gold medals in Grimsborough, of which all are dogs. The following dogs are available in this shop:

Second Shop
The Financial Center pet shop requires 12 gold medals in Grimsborough, of which all are dogs. The following dogs are available in this shop:

Third Shop
The Historical Center pet shop requires 22 gold medals in Grimsborough, of which all are dogs. The following dogs are available in this shop:

Fourth Shop
The University pet shop requires 32 gold medals in Grimsborough, of which all are dogs. The following dogs are available in this shop:

Fifth Shop
The Maple Heights pet shop requires 42 gold medals in Grimsborough, of which the premium pet is a dog. The following pets are available in this shop:

Sixth Shop
The Airport pet shop requires all 56 gold medals in Grimsborough. The following pets are available in this shop:

Seventh Shop
The Bayou Bleu pet shop requires 10 gold medals in Pacific Bay. The following pets are available in this shop:

Eighth Shop
The Jazz Town pet shop requires 20 gold medals in Pacific Bay. The following pets are available in this shop:

Ninth Shop

 * Slated for future launch.

The White Peaks pet shop requires 30 gold medals in Pacific Bay, and will be visible only to those who can successfully beat Hanging by a Thread. At this time, there is no way to access this pet shop due to the fact that Pacific Bay currently consists of less than 30 cases, while the White Peaks pet shop requires 30 gold medals in the very city—meaning there is no way to accumulate the amount of gold medals required to unlock this particular shop.

The Pet House
You can access your purchased pets through the map screen or the circular menu at the bottom, left-hand corner of the case screen. From here, you can switch between your currently purchased pets by clicking on the arrows to the left or right.

You can also feed your pets with either a bone, fish, chicken, or ham, but only one of any every so often, as each food has a wait timer, after which you can feed your pets again.


 * Bone gives 1 heart with a 5-minute timer.


 * Fish gives 5 hearts with a 4-hour timer.


 * Chicken gives 10 hearts with a 12-hour timer.

If you give your pet a chicken you can not then give it a bone nor a fish, and you will have to wait for 12 hours before giving anything else to your pet, except:


 * Ham costs 5 cash, gives 10 hearts and can be given over and over.

If you have more than one pet, you can feed all of the pets at the same time.

Once your pet has many hearts, it will grow up and its special abilities will increase. And once your pet reaches its Maximum Loyalty, you will not have to feed it anymore.

Level Up
When your pet has enough hearts (as displayed in the progress bar in the pet house), it will reach a higher level and will have a higher probability of finding the things it finds. It seems that one rectangle is added to one of the skills. The exact probabilities of finding something after a scene are unknown and described as "very tiny" or "very small" (as a first point of reference, a German Shepherd at level 2 had 10 "lucky finds" in 60 scenes played).

As seen in the pet shops, more expensive pets start with a higher chance of finding an item, which means their lucky find chance can end up even higher than fully leveled pets from earlier shops, but take much longer to raise to Maximum Loyalty.

NOTES: At levels 3 and 5, your pet will grow up. Seven Bars (Excellent) is the highest possible output for a skill of a pet.

Industrial Area Pets
NOTE: The maximum output for the German Shepherd and the King Charles Spaniel are 4 (Fair) Bars in Skill 1 and 5 Bars (Good) in Skill 2 at Maximum Loyalty.

Financial Center Pets
NOTE: The maximum output for the Boxer and the Akita are 6 Bars (Very Good) in Skill 1 and 4 Bars (Fair) in Skill 2 at Maximum Loyalty.

Historical Center Pets
NOTE: The maximum output for the Chihuahua and the Collie are 4 Bars (Fair) in Skill 1 and 7 Bars (Excellent) in Skill 2 at Maximum Loyalty.

University Pets
NOTE: The maximum output for the Jack Russel Terrier and the St. Bernard are 5 Bars (Good) in Skill 1 and 7 Bars (Excellent) in Skill 2 at Maximum Loyalty.

Maple Heights Pets
NOTE: At Maximum Loyalty, both the Tiger and the Panda will be at 7 Bars (Excellent) in both Skills.

Airport Pets
NOTE: At Maximum Loyalty, both the Monkey and the Red Panda will be at 7 Bars (Excellent) in both Skills.

White Peaks Pets

 * Slated for future launch.

Trivia

 * When first released, all companion animals were originally going to be dogs, however the release of the Maple Heights police pet shop saw the introduction of companion animals which are not dogs. As such, the release of Jazz Town in Pacific Bay saw the Police Dog Shops renamed to Police Pet Shops.
 * At this time, the Maple Heights and Airport pets are the only pets that can hit 7 Bars in both Skills at Maximum Loyalty.
 * There is currently a known issue for pets at this time—Due to the iOS version of the game having only Grimsborough available for play, players who use Facebook Connect to play the game on iOS are not able to feed their Pacific Bay pets because of Pacific Bay not being available on the iOS version yet.
 * Due to the White Peaks police pet shop requiring 30 gold medals in Pacific Bay, this particular pet shop is inaccessible at the moment as Pacific Bay currently holds less than 30 cases.