Your animal keeps living while the tab is closed. It gets hungry, the enclosure drifts warmer or colder, water fouls, a pregnancy advances. When you come back, everything that happened while you were away has happened.
The simulation advances one step every 15 minutes of real time. The clock in the corner of the enclosure counts down to the next step, so you can always see it is running. Watching for two minutes will not show you much: that is normal, and it is the point. This is husbandry, not a clicker.
Press Pause and care stops: nothing declines, nothing progresses, nothing dies. You have a total allowance of 48 hours per animal, which you can take in one block or in pieces across the week. The header shows how much is left.
When the allowance runs out, care resumes automatically whether you are watching or not. Pause is for a night's sleep or a weekend away: it is not a way to keep an animal indefinitely suspended.
Puggle keeps a local copy of your animals on the device and, when you are signed in, syncs account-linked progress to the Puggle cloud-save system. That lets your own animals and husbandry progress be restored to another supported device after you sign in. Institutional seats grant access only; your saved animals remain attached to your individual account when a teacher later releases or reassigns the seat.
Each animal has tabs across the bottom: what it eats, its water, its climate, its enrichment, its health, its family, and a full log. Above them is a short list of care requirements: the things that currently need attention, in priority order, each explaining why it matters rather than just flagging a number.
To the right of the enclosure is the live log. Every action you take, and everything the animal does in response, appears there. If you press something and are not sure what it did, that is where the answer is.
The diets, temperatures, social structures and diseases come from the same reference work as the professional WildNutri Pro system. An animal fed a plausible-looking wrong diet will develop the disease that diet actually causes. Nothing here is decoration: if a card tells you a species needs company, or running water, or a nesting burrow, it needs it, and the animal will be worse off without it.
Thirty-one species and a honey bee colony, each with its own needs, behaviours and life story. Start with a simple one, or choose the animal you want to learn.