I've been having problems with how to bring the virtual pet to life.
I tried following some online instructions (http://www.moock.org/lectures/introToOOP/) on how to make a virtual "tamagotchi". This took me a long time, and after getting it to work I discovered this was not the kind of thing I wanted to produce. I could only get the pet to "digest" food and then die.
I have tried looking on www.flashkit.com and www.actionscript.org for some advice but this is not proving very successful.
I will have to think of a different way to produce my virtual pet.