Hin Closing and reopening takes time. To avoid this, keep your left hand on the F5 key while the right manages the mouse. When you fail to find your pet, click the link taking you back to the game screen or, better still, if you have a multi-button mouse, have one set to BACK (Alt+left) and simply click it. When you do find your pet, hit F5. The refresh that this causes acts as if you were searching for your pet in that very same location. If they happen to have hidden there again, you find them again and get the NPs for it. In time you'll hit F5 and the pet will not be hiding there. When this happens, click the link or back up, as above, and it will take you back to the game screen. From there, you can choose any of the 5 areas (one of which you've already checked by refreshing) to try to find your pet again. Playing by just clicking, closing the old and opening a new window, etc., takes ~12 minutes until your pet gets bored and you have to move on to something else. By using F5 when you find your pet, you cut the time down to just over 3 minutes.
