# Pets

## Creating a new pet

## Create pet.

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> `https://api.myapi.com/v1/pet`

Creates a new pet.

#### Request Body

| Name                                   | Type   | Description                           |
| -------------------------------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------- |
| name<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark> | string | The name of the pet                   |
| owner\_id                              | string | The `id` of the user who owns the pet |
| species                                | string | The species of the pet                |
| breed                                  | string | The breed of the pet                  |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200 Pet successfully created" %}

```javascript
{
    "name"="Wilson",
    "owner": {
        "id": "sha7891bikojbkreuy",
        "name": "Samuel Passet",
    "species": "Dog",}
    "breed": "Golden Retriever",
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="401 Permission denied" %}

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

{% hint style="info" %}
**Good to know:** This API method was created using the API Method block, it's how you can build out an API method documentation from scratch. Have a play with the block and you'll see you can do some nifty things like add and reorder parameters, document responses, and give your methods detailed descriptions.
{% endhint %}

## Updating a pet

{% openapi src="<https://petstore.swagger.io/v2/swagger.json>" path="/pet" method="put" %}
<https://petstore.swagger.io/v2/swagger.json>
{% endopenapi %}

{% hint style="info" %}
**Good to know:** This API method was auto-generated from an example Swagger file. You'll see that it's not editable – that's because the contents are synced to a URL! Any time the linked file changes, the documentation will change too.
{% endhint %}