Steal a Pet Guide: How to Afford the Best Trails

Trails in Steal a pet are paid upgrades that multiply your speed. You can’t buy one at the start, because a trail costs money and you start with none. The money comes from pets you steal and keep in your pen. The order goes like this: steal a pet, put it to work, train your speed on a treadmill, then spend your earnings on a trail.

Quick answer: Steal a cage, open it in your pen, and place the pet from your hotbar to earn income. Train on a treadmill, then buy a trail with that money for a speed multiplier.

What a trail does in Steal a pet

Trails bought with money generated by pets.

Since everything depends on income, the first job is getting a pet into your pen.

Steal a pet and start earning income

Launch Steal a pet and spawn in. You begin at your base, which has the pen where your pets will live and earn.

Head out into the arena and steal a cage. Pets sit inside cages, and each cage shows the pet’s name, rarity and how much it earns. Check these before you grab one so you know what you’re taking.

Two caged pets in the arena with their rarity and earnings rates shown above them — Caged pets show their rarity and earnings rate before you take them.

Other areas of the arena hold different pets in their own cages.

Run back to your base with the cage. The cage only earns you anything once it’s in your pen, so the trip home is part of the steal.

Running a stolen cage back across the arena to your base.

Place the cage inside your pen. Once the cage is down, a timer runs on it before it can be opened.

Placed cage in the pen with a countdown running below the pet's name — A placed cage counts down before it can be opened.

Open the cage when it’s ready. The pet comes out of the cage and goes into your hotbar, so it isn’t earning yet.

Player opening a finished cage in the pen to collect the pet inside — Opening a finished cage to collect the pet.

Select the pet in your hotbar and place it in the pen. This is the step that starts the money. A pet in the pen generates income on its own, and cash appears around your base as it earns.

Placed pet showing its earnings rate as cash bills appear around it — A placed pet generating income, with cash appearing around it.

You’ll know it worked when the pet shows an earnings rate above it and cash starts appearing near your base. If the pet is still sitting in your hotbar, it isn’t earning anything.

Cash bundles piling up at the base as pets earn.

Train speed on the treadmill

Add a treadmill to your base and run on it. Every stretch of running raises your speed, and the gain pops up above your character as you train. This is the base number a trail multiplies, so time spent here makes any trail you buy later worth more.

Running on the treadmill raises your speed.

Your pets keep earning while you train, so the treadmill and the pen work at the same time. Use the money generated to buy a trail.

Player in the base next to the income machine, with cash pickups scattered on the ground — Cash pickups collecting around the base while you train.

Buy a trail at the trail kiosk

Once you have money, buy a trail for a speed multiplier. Pick one you can afford and buy it with your income. Steal more pets and continue upgrading the treadmill.

Trail booth straight ahead as the player runs over to browse the trails — Buy a trail with the money generated.

Steal more pets and upgrade the treadmill

One pet won’t pay for the best trails. Go back out, steal more cages and repeat the same routine for each one: run it home, place it in the pen, open it and place the pet from your hotbar. Every extra pet in the pen adds to your income, which shortens the wait for the next trail.

Player at base with a newly stolen cage in the hotbar beside the Bat and Trap items — Steal another cage and run back to your base.

Player in the pet yard beside a newly placed pet showing its earnings rate and timer — Each new pet in the pen adds its own earnings rate.

Continue upgrading the treadmill. Continue upgrading the treadmill. Higher trained speed means the trail’s multiplier has more to work with.

Continue upgrading the treadmill.

The base keeps earning while you run on the training machine.

Every pass through this loop gives you more income per second and more trained speed, so each trail you buy multiplies a bigger number than the last. Keep stealing, keep training, and buy the next trail whenever your savings cover it.