Finally your sims can have pets. Pets provide new opportunities for fun and money. This article explains the basic mechanics of pets for your sims.
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There are several ways to get pets for your sims. The main way is the new Create-A-Pet panel in Create-A-Sim. Select the usual add new member then decide on a cat or a dog. Next you have six panels to customise your pets.
Other sources for your pets include phoning the pet adoption agency and buying from a pet store.
The first thing you'll notice is that you can't control pets directly. But you can train your pets to do what you want.
All pets go through three age stages. Kitten/Puppy, Adult and Elder. like sims, each stage comes with its own challenges. Pets can also breed with themselves. However dogs and cats cannot breed between themselves. Dogs can only breed with dogs and cats can only breed with cats. As well, you need a pet house to breed. Finally, you can only own six pets at a time and that's if there's four or less sims on the lot. The totals are as follows.
Pets, like sims have eight basic needs.
Pets have some special relationships with sims.
Pets can learn special tricks to entertain your sims. To teach a pet a trick, click on the pet and select Teach Command then click on the desired command. Alternatively, you can hire the obedience trainer for your pets. The trainer also supplies the cure for a furry aliment. Tricks are required for pet career advancement.
Yes, Pets can have careers. Pet careers are chosen in the normal manner but have these differences.
Choose form Service, Security and Showbiz. When your pet becomes an elder, they can retire. Getting a promotion also unlocks a special bonus. When your pets become promoted, you unlock, either a new coat colour, a new marking or a new collar. These allow for greater customisation. You can even share your unlockables with console players. To do this, find the code for the unlockable in neighbourhood view, copy it. Open the specific menu in the console version and re-enter the code.
Pets like sims have five personality traits. These traits are.
Unlike sim personalities, there are only 3 points in each personality score. As well, maximising one personality doesn't put a strain on the other personality traits. You just pick one of the three scores in the trait then move on to the next one.
You can control pets autonomy by re-enforcing certain behaviours. To do this wait until a pet performs an action you'd like to re-enforce, then click on the pet and select Praise for if you want them to do the behaviour or Scold for if you want them to do the opposite. If you keep doing this, eventually you'll hit a maximum and the pet will never perform the opposite behaviour. You can re-enforce these behaviours.