Took me about a week, I went very slow and appreciated all the details which I missed reading it partially the first time a decade ago. Many scenes made me cry but especially the happy conclusions for Petey and Dragon. Even demigods eventually grow as people in a comic as longrunning as Housepets!

I adore this comic, Rick's art & writing, and the community around it! I feel as though I watched an artist mature as a person and creator throughout reading. I loved the themes around finding meaning and love in a mortal world most of all. Every part of it was awesome, including the earliest arcs and the various parody intermissions (the Jurassic Park one was my favorite and Macbeth a close second).

Now my only struggle is how to describe this to my friends to convince them to read it. So far I've workshopped a few pitches:

• it's furry homestuck
• sunday funnies with a side of operatic religious and social drama
• it's what would happen if Jim Davis suddenly gained existential self-awareness and broke out of the fugue state they keep him in to keep churning out more Garfield
• it's a story about a DnD game gone awry

Thoughts??

Peanut with eyeliner

yes i made the meat factory remix myself

If Housepets was a cartoon series (I really wish it was!) Which actors would voice which characters? I heard that Patton Oswald is a popular choice for King, so I have a list of all the famous voice actors I know of.

Jim Cummings

Frank Welker

Richard Horvitz

John Dimaggio

Jeff Bennett

Jess Harnell

Rob Paulsen

Dee Bradley Baker

Kevin Michael Richardson

Khary Payton

Tom Kenny

Billy West

Charlie Adler

Phil Lamarr

Roger Craig Smith

Kath Soucie

Grey DeLisle

Tara Strong

Tress MacNeille

Roz Ryan

Elizabeth Daily

Candi Milo

Cree Summers

If anyone can match these actors to which character they would play, let me know, and if you have any other voice actors in mind, please include them

Just my opinion as of yesterday. For some reason Simon and Duke are missing and there are two Other Daryls.

Mind that in this scenario all the characters listed are somehow capable fighters, so who would canonically win a fight doesn't matter. I have in my mind more or less how they would fight and who would win but I'll leave it to you to imagine your own results. (If you are wondering how I choose this specific roster I just copy and paste the tv tropes character list and then took ones until I had 16.)

7 MONTHS, I PRAY THAT I HAVEN'T BEEN GASLIGHTING MYSELF FOR THAT LONG, THIS BETTER BE THE REVIVAL, OR I AM GONNA GO MENTAL. ​​​​

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Have Rick ever gave permission to people that they can cosplay or sell fan merch of Housepets? Does he still want Housepets to be revived more in the fandom? I have some plans to cosplay as Peanut in a Kemonomimi style. I won't be in a convention but just a regular cosplay for Halloween. The only cosplay I've seen is that King fursuit but idk the origins of it. The only merch I've seen are the official ones but no keychains or plush.

read through housepets for the first time!!! absolutely loved it! I’m on my second readthrough rn and am on the Hamlet production part!

I joined the fandom in August 2025 and I feel like this fandom is kinda... dying. Let me explain. I first stumbled across Housepets! On Tvtropes after I somehow got there from DELTARUNE. After I joined the fandom I noticed that there weren't alot of people. I thought, "maybe this webcomic is new...?" But when I checked the first strip, it was from the Y2K era. So I thought again: "maybe it just didn't catch on?" BUT this fandom seems to have been lively back then. And I've made attempts to "revive" this fandom, but they are either unreleased or just straight bootycheek. Does anyone know what happened?

I had this idea for an anthro animal story based on martial arts manga where dogs compete in brutal underground matches. So I kinda reflectively started imagining the dog characters from Housepets in this kind of scenario fighting each other and how they would fight. Maybe could also include some of the other no dog characters for variety. What do you think?

If Peanut (Peaknut) had a stand (jjba) I think it'd be Spot (Superdog)

So I thought I remembered that a key aspect of Joel's backstory is that his parents were abusive, but upon reading the chapter where Joel visits heaven, I realized he briefly meets his mom and his dad is implied to be with her. Am I misremembering this or does this have to do with that Breel thing where souls are split into good and bad halves with the former going to heaven and the latter going to hell? I guess also what's up with that because I'm pretty sure a big plotpoint was King's soul being sent to hell if he went back to his human form

Alternate title: If King/Joel chose the lamp. Based on Book 7: Heaven's Not Enough Part 3.

Bailey, Olive, Ace, and Rook fades away if he chose his human life.

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Sorry if it's crap. It's my first attempt using Alight Motion and I need to get this idea out of my head. I don't know how to animate sadly.

I will improve this in the future like actually animating the orbit.

Meme: Twins at the carousel (featuring Hatsune Miku)

Twins at the carousel (feat. Hatsune Miku) has been on my feed several times. I got bored and wanted to do something to get off my comfort zone. Which character/arc would fit this trend?

The site doesn't seem to work anymore.

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Olive: It's neither a chess nor card themed name. I headcanon that an olive branch symbolizes peace. King is at peace with Bailey instead of his human life.

Ace: In a deck of cards, ace has the highest value than king in most card games. King put his daughter first and naming her Ace means he takes care of her before him.

Rook: On the outside, it's just a chess themed naming. Inside, think of Castling. The rook protects the king. King thought about it since if Rook grows up, he'll be protecting his father. Other than that, it gives Rook the opportunity into the open field. King wanted Rook to protect him but also wanted him to explore in life. Thus the Castling method is both protection and activation.

I'll admit I'm late to this and couldn't find the Housepets website. It just felt surprising seeing them grow up.

Edit: THE PUPS' COLLARS MATCH THEIR NAMES