Have you ever wondered what day your pet's birthday is? Do you constantly wish
that you had marked down the day you created it on a calendar somewhere? Well,
believe it or not, there's an easy way to find out the day your NeoPet came
into existence! All you need is a calendar, (last year's calendar could be helpful
too) and for those of you who are bad with math, you may want to use a calculator.
I'll break this into steps to make it a little easier.
How to figure out the birthday of a pet UNDER a year old:
STEP 1:
Look up your pet's profile. (You can do this either through quick-ref or by
looking up your pet's name in the search box.) Find the part that mentions your
pets age in days. Write down that number, or you can just check back later if
you don't have a pen and paper handy and you forget the number.
STEP 2:
Take your pet's age in days, and subtract it from 365. It's easier shown like
this: 365 - your pets age in days = the amount of days until your pet's next
birthday.
STEP 3:
Take a calendar and using the number you got from step 2, count ahead the
days one by one. (If you are really good with math, you can count ahead by weeks
instead of days.) Once you get up to the number that you got from your equation,
then you've found the day that your pet was created. It's a lot more accurate
then just trying to think back to when you created it, especially if you adopted
the pet from the pound.
STEP 4:
Now what do you do now that you know your pets birthday? Mark it on your calendar,
or put it in your pet's lookup. When your pet's birthday comes, do something
nice for it, paint it a new colour or if you're not that rich, buy it a chocolate
faerie cake. And don't forget to buy it a birthday card.
How to figure out the birthday of a pet OVER a year old:
STEP 1:
This is where last year's calendar could come in handy. There are two ways
to do this but one is a lot easier if you still have that calendar. Go in your
pet's lookup and find it's age in days. (This is almost the same as what you
do for a pet under a year old, but the calculations are a bit different.)
STEP 2:
Take that number and subtract 365 from it. It's easiest shown like this: Your
pet's age in days - 365 = the amount of days since your pet last had it's birthday.
(If your pet is over two years old then it's the same except you subtract 365
twice. So it would look like this: Your pet's age - (2 x 365) = the amount of
days since your pet last had it's birthday.)
STEP 3:
If you have last years calendar then all you have to do is take the number
you got from step two and go backwards that many days on your calendar. But
seeing as not everyone carries a spare calendar from last year around, then
there's a third step using this year's calendar. Take 365 and minus the number
you got in step two from it. In an example form: 365 - Amount of time since
your pet's last birthday = Amount of time until your pet's next birthday. (Got
a headache yet?)
STEP 4:
Take your calendar and count forward in days equal to the number you got in
step 3. Then you'll have found your pet's birthday. (Phew, I bet you thought
you'd never get through all that, did you?)
STEP 5:
Put your pet's birthday up on your calendar. Remember, you missed it's other
birthday(s) so you owe them one big time! And NeoPets never forget... Kidding.
They'll forgive you... Especially if you get them a nice big present, like that
Battledome weapon that they've been whining at you to get them for ages...
Okay, for those of you who can't LIVE without an example, I'll do one with
my pet, Nickey151. She is 201 days old, (As of this moment.) So I take 365 and
subtract 201 from it. 365 - 201 = 164. I counted ahead on the calendar and ended
up with June 21st. That also so happens to be the day I started playing NeoPets.
(It says so on my look up.) So I know my calculations work. If you think you
made a mistake, try redoing the calculations or try counting the days again.
(Note: The calculations change every day, as your NeoPet gets older.) | 
