The cafe is not only a great place to meet interesting pets (and check out their houses) but you can also find a few coins to put in your pet’s pocket. How? By petting and brushing the pets you meet there. To find pets with earning potential, look for signs of neglect such as swarming flies or poor dress (like the clothes they give you when you first adopted your pet).
I’ve even seen a few naked pets! Scrub these poor creatures for coins and you may as well look around …

When you pet or wash any pet, coins sprout from them. Petting and brushing seems to produce more coins than washing and I have earned as much as 16 coins from petting a very unhappy pet. To get the most coins possible for petting a friend’s pet, click the X instead of doing an activity (hug, kiss, dance, etc.) when you first visit, because these activities increase that pet’s happiness and you may miss out on a few coins. After you have petted the unhappy pet, leave the house and …