Sources 🌱

Image credits, licenses and layout references.

Pet Store 97 background

PetSmart logo image supplied by the site owner. The original upload is stored unchanged; the game applies a green, reduced-resolution rendering. PetSmart branding belongs to its respective owner; this fan game is not affiliated with or endorsed by PetSmart.

Pet Store 97 cat photos

Five real cat photographs with existing transparent backgrounds. Local 330-pixel Wikimedia PNG copies, rendered as lightly pixelated 56-pixel sprites with original aspect ratios. No AI-generated images. Background extraction by YukiKoKo; all five files are licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

European Shorthair — Heikki Siltala / catza.net. Straight runner.
Asian tabby — Matt Buck. Zigzag.
British Longhair — Chatterie des Millenovæ. Pursuer.
Exotic Shorthair — Heikki Siltala / catza.net. Charger.
Toyger — Heikki Siltala / catza.net. Ranged attacker.

Score layout reference: Hong Kong 97 gameplay screenshots. The score treatment is recreated in CSS; no original game sprites, music or code are used.

Landscape background

Green Field Blue Sky Clouds — Sjgdzn. CC BY-SA 4.0. Real photograph, downloaded as a resized Wikimedia copy. Displayed with a CSS crop and a translucent overlay behind the mascot; not AI-generated.

Pictures & little graphics

Pet white fancy rat — John Ruby / Satyadasa. CC0 1.0. Downloaded from Wikimedia Commons. Displayed with a CSS crop in the sidebar.
Rat mascot: original artwork by the Awesome Rats site owner, created in Adobe Illustrator. Exported as a transparent PNG for the website.Product mockups are SVG concepts, not photos of stocked goods. The sourced web graphics below are saved locally in assets/web; no hotlinking.

The graphics collection

The graphics collection has been removed from the navigation. Files are retained locally. Most graphics do not have a named original creator; a collection credit is not a claim that they are freely licensed.

Files from Bonnibel’s collection

computer_12.gif, computer_20.gif, phone_1.gif, phone_3.gif, gemmini20.gif, emailme.gif, moonturn.gif, Floatie_40.gif, Floatie_43.gif, Floatie_76.gif, game_1.gif, game_3.gif, welcome.gif, guestbook.gif.

Bonnibel’s Graphic CollectionSpinning CD (Tech collection, cdisk.gif) and archived sparkling stars (Sky collection, Floatie_25.gif). Original creators are not identified by the collection; collection links are provenance, not an authorship or license claim. Files saved locally and used unchanged.
Lazer-Bunny’s free-to-use graphics“Proud Owner of a Pink Site” blinkie and “Please Interact” button. Used unchanged, with the creator’s permission for reuse stated on the collection page.
Silk icons by Mark James / famfamfamOriginal 16 × 16 icons: house, cart, heart, controller, email, world and star. Unchanged; CC BY 2.5. Original readme.
Rotating Earth by MarvelBased on NASA imagery. Original GIF, displayed smaller without changing the file. CC BY-SA 3.0.

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Site references

Lazer-Bunny ↗ Personal website wonder, tiny windows, and the joy of exploring.
MonsieurDoll ↗ Chrome, blue, and an uncompromising sense of personality.
Frutiger Aero Archive ↗ A love letter to shiny, optimistic interfaces.
Reading Project ↗ A reminder that the web can feel like a place.

These sites inspired the design. The specific free-to-use graphics borrowed from Lazer-Bunny are credited above; their site code has not been copied.

More Neocities references

Camo93Compact sidebar navigation and an artwork-first site.
NerucomLarge character artwork placed beside the main layout.
WrenderStrong repeating background and a framed entrance page. Its rainbow palette was not used here.

Layout references only; their illustrations and code have not been copied. Awesome Rats uses its own mascot.

Photo album

Files are stored locally. The album thumbnails use CSS cropping; opening a photograph shows its full frame. Wikimedia thumbnails are resized copies; no other file edits were made.

Pet white fancy rat — John Ruby / Satyadasa. CC0. Original file, assets/pet-rat.jpg.
A curled up male Fancy Rat — Wikieditor019. CC0. Original file, assets/photos/curled-rat.jpg.
10 Male Rats — Kevin Simpson. CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized Wikimedia copy, assets/photos/rat-pile.jpg.
Agouti pet rat — Linsenhejhej. CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized Wikimedia copy, assets/photos/agouti-rat.jpg.
Fancy rat blaze — AlexK100. CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized Wikimedia copy, assets/photos/blaze-rat.jpg.
Pet rat — Robin Stjerndorff (Mobileforces). Public domain, as stated on the source page. Resized Wikimedia copy, assets/photos/young-rat.jpg.

Under the hood

Static HTML, CSS & JavaScript. Shopify Storefront API for the catalog and hosted checkout when connected. Tiny sound effects are synthesized in your browser.