Re: Pets lost after Sim orphaned at university

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If you're playing a one Sim household and your only Sim dies, your pet goes to some kind of "animal protection service," only I think in practice it's just gone.  I suspect the same thing happened with your Sim's pets. I don't think they show up in pet adoptions or unplayed households (but would be happy to be corrected on this point!).

If you have MC Command Center, you can click on a mailbox and summon the pets to a current lot and hopefully that'll work? and then you could shift-click to add them to your Sim's household. (At least, I think it requires MCCC; you could try it with just testing cheats on. If that doesn't work, you would need to use MCCC to turn on debug cheats.)