How "bad" is it to give up a pet for adoption?

"nickibitsward;c-16719893" wrote:


I'd love this! Is it available in game or a custom skin?

:D :D :D
I am continually surprised that people actually have an interest in Arae.

But to answer your question, she is completely CC free. The skin/fur is one included in create a pet. I just spent 15 minutes one day creating her as a cranky companion for the alien matriarch in my merman/Alien family. Here’s the link if you actually want to download her.

I put the abominable feline up for download just for kicks to see if anyone would actually be interested and so far she’s had six whole downloads. Which is five more than I thought she’d get :D

Anyway she’s cranky, attacks sims and constantly wishes to hiss at anyone she meets so have fun with the little monster if you so choose to download :p

"igazor;c-16719808" wrote:
Slight rant on those social interactions, all I want to do is ask a friend to stay the night or to stay over at their house and I always get the pets offers and ask to move in, other sorts of lifelong commitments before the innocent "it's too late to drive home, can I just crash here?" option shows up. It's funny in a way, but kind of frustrating at other times. :/

I'm not sure about the pets, but the option to "ask to move in" only shows up when two sims already have a very high relationship, no matter how well their conversation is going. So the problem, really, is that you're too good a friend to the townies. Try being mean or standoffish for a change; I'm sure that will take care of the issue soon enough.

I have to say, though, that I'm a bit confused by the subject of this thread. Perhaps I'm missing something. But I honestly don't understand: Why are all these cats letting some mere human kick them out of their house?

"puzzlezaddict;c-16720119" wrote:
I'm not sure about the pets, but the option to "ask to move in" only shows up when two sims already have a very high relationship, no matter how well their conversation is going. So the problem, really, is that you're too good a friend to the townies. Try being mean or standoffish for a change; I'm sure that will take care of the issue soon enough.

This isn't going to apply to all of them, but it would not be in character for many of my sims to be mean to their friends just so they can have the honor of sleeping in the guest bed and not be served breakfast in the morning with a less polluted social menu. Yes, many of them are just "too nice" to everyone, sorry. :/

Maybe this would be easier for me to work through if the Charisma skill weren't so ridiculously easy to gain, but I've already got that one throttled every way possible by way of NRaas Relativity and my "average" teen and older sim is still above Level 5 without really trying very hard.

"puzzlezaddict;c-16720119" wrote:
I have to say, though, that I'm a bit confused by the subject of this thread. Perhaps I'm missing something. But I honestly don't understand: Why are all these cats letting some mere human kick them out of their house?

Now you do have a point there. But without mods to extend the maximum household size, we're back to contemplating leaving the toddlers and children alone in the woods to fend for themselves so the next baby can be conceived. Although, to be fair, the last time this came up you were talking about plumbots simbots not human children, and I kind of got things twisted around a bit. :p

If you treat a cat well it will become a loyal, loving member of the family unlike children who cost a fortune, eat you out of house and home, expect you to do their laundry, act as chauffeur and then leave. Could the heir not do without the extra child?

"Amphora;c-16720095" wrote:

"nickibitsward;c-16719893" wrote:


I'd love this! Is it available in game or a custom skin?

:D :D :D
I am continually surprised that people actually have an interest in Arae.

But to answer your question, she is completely CC free. The skin/fur is one included in create a pet. I just spent 15 minutes one day creating her as a cranky companion for the alien matriarch in my merman/Alien family. Here’s the link if you actually want to download her.

I put the abominable feline up for download just for kicks to see if anyone would actually be interested and so far she’s had six whole downloads. Which is five more than I thought she’d get :D

Anyway she’s cranky, attacks sims and constantly wishes to hiss at anyone she meets so have fun with the little monster if you so choose to download :p

She'd be perfect for my vampire sim! I am going to download her. Thanks.

"Bettyboop55;c-16720727" wrote:
If you treat a cat well it will become a loyal, loving member of the family unlike children who cost a fortune, eat you out of house and home, expect you to do their laundry, act as chauffeur and then leave. Could the heir not do without the extra child?

They COULD. I'm a RL cat lover so I really don't WANT to give up one of the pets. I shouldn't have gotten so many to begin with. One of my Sims had a wish to own a Unicorn and I knew he would have to befriend three other pets first. But I realized how difficult that would be and changed his LTW.

In my generational challenge, it's a good idea to have a spare heir. If my current heir dies, I lose the challenge.

I think I'm going to risk it. I have one senior with probably 15 years or so of life left and one of the cats is almost a senior. I'll just make sure my heir (who just turned toddler) has a good safe life.

Why is there no room for another human sim, when there are only 7 already? I thought the limit for humans and the limit for pets were totally separate. Is there actually a limit on the combined total?

"IreneSwift;c-16721053" wrote:
Why is there no room for another human sim, when there are only 7 already? I thought the limit for humans and the limit for pets were totally separate. Is there actually a limit on the combined total?

I thought the limit was 10 including the pets?

"nickibitsward;c-16721164" wrote:

"IreneSwift;c-16721053" wrote:
Why is there no room for another human sim, when there are only 7 already? I thought the limit for humans and the limit for pets were totally separate. Is there actually a limit on the combined total?

I thought the limit was 10 including the pets?

I just looked it up on the wiki, and you are correct. But up to this point, I never knew there was a combined limit. I almost never play large households, and seldom have pets, so I never came up against the combined limit.

"IreneSwift;c-16721305" wrote:

"nickibitsward;c-16721164" wrote:

"IreneSwift;c-16721053" wrote:
Why is there no room for another human sim, when there are only 7 already? I thought the limit for humans and the limit for pets were totally separate. Is there actually a limit on the combined total?

I thought the limit was 10 including the pets?

I just looked it up on the wiki, and you are correct. But up to this point, I never knew there was a combined limit. I almost never play large households, and seldom have pets, so I never came up against the combined limit.

I don't play large households either, maybe at most 4 Sims (2 adults, 2 kids) and a couple cats. The game has the unfortunate habit of giving my inactive households pets, as many as it can which is a pain, when I finally get back to playing a different family, I have all these pets I then have to put up for adoption.