Awesome. It's really clean and exactly the right style. Mind if I turn me and my boyfriend into trainers as well?
I eighth the activity, but I'll do it whether there'll actually be one or no.

You can replace text with icons of cheese with green V and meat with red X 

I was considering that actually.
If you think that's better I'll give it a shot.

edit:
Doon't ask a vegetarian to try to pixel meat ^^;



edit II: running out of time, so I submitted it.
I suppose this topic can be locked or something.

nothing wrong with .png files, they use indexed colors just like .gif files.  However, your'e wasting a LOT of shades on the cow without actually communicating much in the way of volume or real shape.  Its horns look more like caterpillars than horns, and the eyes appear to be like glowing golden nuggets?  The nostrils are superdark too, which is kind of weird.  Also, just curious about even whats going on - two thick-handled, triangular knives + a cow = cheese?  Very confused!

Haha I'll fix the horns. And nostrils.

And it's strange because I was wondering if it was clear enough myself... and the three people I asked all said it was perfectly fine.
Maybe they were trying to be nice ^^; shouldn't trust friends.

Also my comment regarding the .png file... I meant that the white looks stupid on this dark background ^^; I was just talking about transparancy, not file size etc.

Edit: did this help any?
I'm a bit fuzzy on how to change the colours and the shading... but I did edit the horn and nostrils.

In response to Helm's "...afraid to switch to an unfamiliar program"

I use Paint Shop Pro 7. Not 6 or 8... but 7. I'm used to it and it's pleasant to pixel in for me.
Like for drawing I use Open Canvas and for designing Photoshop. Each art its program.
Personally I hate using Photoshop for pixel art. I do use it a lot (see designing) but for pixeling it isn't comfortable for me at all.

There's no application that's good or bad for pixeling (ok well, don't try Open Canvas). You'll have to find something that fits you.
Animation is a different subject though... Like Animation Shop, which comes with Paint Shop Pro... not so nice.