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

My Sims don't even seem to notice. The only one upset is me. Cue the sad music. "We always find homes for our pets..."

Not sure how the adoption was to be done, but wouldn't it be simpler and less sad to give one of the cats away to a good friend or some other household in town?

"igazor;c-16719476" wrote:
Not sure how the adoption was to be done, but wouldn't it be simpler and less sad to give one of the cats away to a good friend or some other household in town?

I didn't know I could do that. I'll check that option out when my sims get home from France! I had planned to have my evil Sim do the "give up for adoption" but I like this idea much better.

The one time in my game I’ve given up kittens for adoption was when I left one of my supernatural families to play another household.

See, they had a cat that looks like this:
https://78.media.tumblr.com/c0d77547f7074b129d2cf0266c4f86ec/tumblr_inline_paccunw2ch1vhkp6x_500.jpg
And the family decided to hoard cats of that...breed? So I go back into that household and see that they had a small colony of cranky skeleton cats.

I steeled myself against the sad music and gave the kittens up for adoption because having one adult cat like that is more than enough for me :D

You guys are usually so remarkably creative, why does that go out the window when cats are involved?

Gather up all the excess (coughs) unusual looking breeds and deposit them in Insane Pet World, your new custom vacation destination. Okay that will require some fancy mod usage, so maybe in Al Simhara then? Or at the very least, give them a few nice homes at the top of a steep hill with some eccentric elders to look after them for you. :p

You can use the Master Controller mod while you play another household and click on the pet and choose "Add sim". Then that household "adopts" it. :smile:

"igazor;c-16719536" wrote:
You guys are usually so remarkably creative, why does that go out the window when cats are involved?

Gather up all the excess (coughs) unusual looking breeds and deposit them in Insane Pet World, your new custom vacation destination. Okay that will require some fancy mod usage, so maybe in Al Simhara then? Or at the very least, give them a few nice homes at the top of a steep hill with some eccentric elders to look after them for you. :p

Hmmm. You raise some good points. If I make a Crazy Cat Land then I would also get to see a large herd of cranky skeleton cats chasing after sims ALA Running of the Bulls.
https://78.media.tumblr.com/3921e245076b0de968a42f3164db0159/tumblr_inline_pacd1lfhWA1vhkp6x_500.jpg
This bears some thinking and planning.
:D

It's much better than what I normally do to excess pets...age them up till Grimmy takes them away. I finally turned off dogs and cats...horses don't bother me so they stay on. My sims get the negative moodlet (which of course I cancel out).

"Cororon;c-16719574" wrote:
You can use the Master Controller mod while you play another household and click on the pet and choose "Add sim". Then that household "adopts" it. :smile:

Yes, that's the easy way. But for those without mods if you chat with a friend from another household, doesn't the option to give one of your pets away to them come up on the social interactions eventually? It does for me and I don't think it's a mod that's putting it there.

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. :/

"Amphora;c-16719503" wrote:
The one time in my game I’ve given up kittens for adoption was when I left one of my supernatural families to play another household.

See, they had a cat that looks like this:
https://78.media.tumblr.com/c0d77547f7074b129d2cf0266c4f86ec/tumblr_inline_paccunw2ch1vhkp6x_500.jpg
And the family decided to hoard cats of that...breed? So I go back into that household and see that they had a small colony of cranky skeleton cats.

I steeled myself against the sad music and gave the kittens up for adoption because having one adult cat like that is more than enough for me :D

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