I had this problem for all of my major drills quests that required giving your pet an item to play with. I have tried all my pets individually to play with the item requested, and they all say its boring and won't play with it.

I don't know if anyone else is having this problem, but its getting quite annoying because I can't complete the quest. I have tried other items in my inventory as well. Am I doing something wrong?

Using Chrome and windows 7

Ima dumb

Your pet's happiness must be 10/10 then. Pets won't play with anything when they have full happiness. If your pet has a minion it will keep them happy, try keeping a pet without a minion for Drill quests, that way you can get those tasks done.

Also keeping them in the Inn or Resort will keep them at full happiness, so you'd have to take them out to use them for Drills' quests

Ah.. thank you guys. I haven't been playing really actively since before the happiness/hunger things were around, but now I feel really dumb lol