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+> [!CAUTION]
+> Ownership of Critters has moved to the Nuxt team, who will be maintaining the project going forward. If you'd like to keep using Critters, please switch to the actively-maintained fork at https://github.com/danielroe/beasties. This repo is now archived and won't receive any future updates.
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 <p align="center">
   <img src="https://i.imgur.com/J0jv1Sz.png" width="240" height="240" alt="critters">
   <h1 align="center">Critters</h1>