You may currently have up to 26 Neopets on your main account and 19 per side account:
- All accounts start with 7 pet slots.
- All accounts may purchase +12 pet slots from the NC Mall.
- Active Premium subscribers receive +7 pet slots as a perk.
- As of July 22, 2025, you may purchase Premium subscriptions for each of your sides, netting +7 slots per side, up to +28 across all 4 sides. (Albeit very expensively, thus we do not count them in our totals.)
Pet slots limits were last upped on January 28, 2026.
Adopting
Before you adopt a pet, here are some notes to keep in mind.
- All adopted pets come without clothing, including paint brush clothing!
- You can get paint brush clothes only through a pet transfer. (See the Transferring Pets section of this guide.)
- Before the transfer system was introduced, users would often transfer pets through the Pound. This meant that if you nabbed a pet intended to transfer to someone else, there was a chance that TNT could revoke the pet from you! These days, such transfers must be done using the transfer system, and any pet you adopt through the Pound is yours to keep.
- You are not able to adopt a new pet while you have a pet in transit to another account.
How To Adopt A Pet
When you first enter the "Adopt" door at the Pound, you will be shown one to three random Neopets whose names begin the same letter.
You can view a different set of Neopets using the "View More Neopets »" link, which shows new pets without reloading the entire page, though you could also reload the page instead if you prefer.
To adopt a pet, first make sure you have enough Neopoints on hand. Then, click on the image of the pet you wish to adopt then click the green Adopt button in the bottom right corner. You will then receive a dialog box like the one shown below.
Hit "OK" and you have a new pet! The adoption fee will be deducted from your on-hand Neopoints as soon as you adopt the new pet.
Adoption Restrictions
Accounts that have not been logged into for 2 years or more will not be able to adopt (or transfer or abandon) any Neopets for 3 months after logging in again. According to the official FAQ, this is a security measure "to protect against the unauthorized access of accounts, ensuring that pets cannot be stolen or traded in the event an account is compromised." Such accounts can still create new Neopets without restriction.
As of December 20, 2021, there are no account age restrictions. Prior to this, accounts less than 4 months old were restricted with what types of pets they could adopt. Rarer colours, most limited edition species, and high-level pets were off-limits.
Adoption Fees
When you adopt or transfer a pet, you are charged a certain amount of NP based on the pet's Battledome statistics. If you want to calculate what the adoption cost for a pet would be beforehand, check out our Pound Adoption Fee Calculator.
This page was last updated on January 4, 2026.
