i have noticed that in the new version of the game the pets are flashing across the screen in a crazy manner where as in the older version i was able to see pets moving as they should has anyone else had this problem.

That can happen when you have installed an updated version of the game on top of a previous version, and the game's images are not properly updated. What operating system is your computer running?

Thanks for your reply that is exactly what happened i fixed it by re-installing the game and it works fine now. I'm using Windows by the way but thanks....:)