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Simmerville's avatar
14 years ago

Strays - how to tell the gender?

My sim got one female dog. I want to breed the dog to have puppies, and I thought why not having the dog befriend a stray dog. I assume the dog can have puppies with a stray that is not included to the household.

Anyway, all the strays have the same name - Stray dog! How am I supposed to tell whether the stray is male or female? I think in earlier versions (ie TS2) the strays had names, which helped you to know its gender. Is there a tricky way I didn't think of?

6 Replies

  • Thats a realy good question I'm now wondering about this myself.
    Surley there must be some way...
  • Ah, I just thought of a way myself, lol. We might need to use testingcheatsenabled and edit the stray in CAP. Then we can check the gender, and exit PET without saving shouldn't really change anything.
  • well i'm assuming if the option comes up to try for puppies then the dog is most likely the opposite sex...i've noticed though that most strays in my game are female
  • I figured it out! Once you adopt a stray, take it to the vet and it will ask for the option to either "Neuter" or "Spay" the animal. You Neuter males and you Spay females! :smiley:
  • "Smonday;c-17902588" wrote:
    I figured it out! Once you adopt a stray, take it to the vet and it will ask for the option to either "Neuter" or "Spay" the animal. You Neuter males and you Spay females! :smiley:


    @Smonday, that only works in The Sims 4. This is an old thread from 2011 for The Sims 3 which doesn't have a vet career in the game.

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