Pets Bug Thread

Common Bugs

This posts describes some of the more common bugs and links to possible solutions. These bugs have been identified as such and if you have them, there is no need to report them again, unless you have further info to add.

Horse animation is choppy

Once a horse reaches racing level 10, the animation gets choppy

Here's a fix for that: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/535313.page

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Objects not working correctly

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Most CC Objects are broken with the new patch and need updating. See first post for more detail.

It also seems that some Store CC is not working. If you have issue, reinstall them. If you installed them as packages, you will need to fix them like cc.

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Spiral Staircases not working with the Patch

It seems that Sims have troubles getting downstairs if the spiral staircase is too close to the wall or railing. Try turning the staircases a little.

Also the interaction use stairs is now missing. This seems to be a patch only issue.

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Pet skill issues

Issues:
- Dogs/Cats can't learn hunting skill
- Horses get no racing skills
- Riding skill is only gained after dismounting the horse (ZeekSlider)
- Cats gain skill with no apparent reason (elanorbreton)

Solution to this issue (no mod required)
- Open your cheat console with ctl-shift-c
- Type testingcheatsenabled true
- Hold down your shift key AND click on the mail box at the same time
- Click on static needs
- After your pet is done learning the kill you can turn back to dynamic needs doing the same thing again (testingcheats should still be enabled)
- To turn of the cheat type testingcheatsenabled false in the cheat console.

Read more about the issue here: BUG: Pets can't learn certain skills

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Sims can't fish with bait

Please provide info here: Fishing problems...

--> According to Twallan this bug is caused by some references that EA forgot to take out when changing something. Overwatch is probably the only solution atm.

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Pets get teleported outside the map

Reports:
- Druscylla
- Mineko
- vayleen

Read more about the issue here: BUG: Animals are teleported to the edge of the map

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Animals are able to get Stylist makeover

Cancel the task

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Animals stretch when doing certain interactions

Issues
- Sniffing another cat: Jurik1124
- Child petting raccoon: Animastar
- Cats vomit: Desirai
- Puppy growls at mailman: Lendyyen
- dog was transitioning from playful chase to dig hole: smjjames
- Dog walk near door and tv: jobug1015
- Hunting battle Animations (Desirai)
- Sitting down (samccray139)

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Cooking gourmet food

- Sims can cook gourmet food with only the patch.
- Sims can't cook gourmet food at all.

This seems to only affect Sims that had maxed-out cooking skill before patching.

BUG: Gourmet Pet Food

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Multi-Select portraits

BUG: Multi-Selected Portraits

- swag6883
- Srich83
- jobug1015
- Resender1
- HAUSoftheAM
- LaBlue0314