Puts a small, bored cat, an enthusiastic dog, a feisty snake, a rubber duck, or Clippy 📎 in your code editor to boost productivity.

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Installation

Install this extension from the VS Code marketplace.

OR

With VS Code open, search for vscode-pets in the extension panel (Ctrl+Shift+X on Windows/Linux or Cmd(⌘)+Shift+X on MacOS) and click install.

OR

With VS Code open, launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P on Windows/Linux or Cmd(⌘)+P on MacOS), paste the following command, and press enter.

ext install tonybaloney.vscode-pets

Using VS Code Pets

Congrats on installing joy! Enjoy interacting with these cute pixelated pets. Read below to get a full understanding of this extension. Not convinced? Watch our extension spotlight on Visual Studio Code.

After installing, open the command palette with Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows/Linux or Cmd(⌘)+Shift+P on MacOS.

Run the "Start pet coding session" command (vscode-pets.start) to see a cat in VS Code:

Now checkout the documentation to see what else is possible!

Credits

The cat and dog media assets for this extension were licensed from itch.io.

Marc Duiker created the Clippy, Rocky, Zappy, rubber duck, snake, cockatiel, Ferris the crab, and Mod the dotnet bot media assets.

Karen Rustad Tölva designed the original concept of Ferris the crab.

Thank you

Thanks to all the contributors to this project.