String Value in player not updating Value?

Hello,

if anyone could give me some advice that would be awesome! I have been stuck dealing with this issue for a couple of weeks.

I want a pet in my inventory to appear when clicking Equip, as well as disappear when Unequipped.

I have the code already laid out, though the pet still won't appear!

Here is the code, a regular Script in ServerScriptService

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)

    local equippedPet = Instance.new("StringValue")
    equippedPet.Name = "EquippedPet"
    equippedPet.Parent = player

    local inventory = Instance.new("Folder")
    inventory.Name = "PetInventory"
    inventory.Parent = player


    player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
        if game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Pets"):FindFirstChild(equippedPet.Value) then
            equipPet(player,game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Pets"):FindFirstChild(equippedPet.Value):Clone())

            end
        end)

     equippedPet.Changed:Connect(function()
        if equippedPet.Value ~= nil then
            if game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Pets"):FindFirstChild(equippedPet.Value) then
            equipPet(player,game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Pets"):FindFirstChild(equippedPet.Value):Clone())

            end
        end



    end)

end)

game.ReplicatedStorage.EquipPet.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player,petName)
    local pet = game.ReplicatedStorage.Pets:FindFirstChild(petName)

    if pet and player.PetInventory:FindFirstChild(petName) then
        player.EquippedPet.Value = petName



    end


end)

game.ReplicatedStorage.UnequipPet.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player)
         player.EquippedPet.Value = ""
    if player.Character:FindFirstChild(player.Name.."'s Pet") then
        player.Character[player.Name.."'s Pet"]:Destroy()
    end
    if player.Character.HumanoidRootPart:FindFirstChild("attachmentCharacter") then
        player.Character.HumanoidRootPart:FindFirstChlid("attachmentCharacter"):Destroy()


    end



end)

I tried moving the script out of ServerScriptService but that was no help. I also tried adding a RemoteEvent but didn’t code it correctly due to that not working either.