Pets Bug Thread

List of reported bugs

This is the list of reported bugs. For bugs in building, options and issues with graphics, please check out the other posts on this page. Some of them might not be bugs, so if you have more info on those, please post.

Probably not Bugs

- Age sliders have changed. They have a new high value
- Horses walking backwards (Sometimes far distances: (Lendyyen).
- Puppies can't walk stairs on their own
- Dogs don't die when struck by a meteor (?) (ZeekSlider)
- Pets are able to gain more than five traits from behavioral training (smjjames)
- Stalkish Ice Cream truck --> Seems to stay there until you buy something
- Sims get flees from their pets ? (ZeekSlider)

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Patch Only

- Sims are able to cook dog food with the Patch only. Food gets stuck in inventory afterwards.
- You can buy carrots but they are invisible and can't be planted (keshialee)
- Auto-Sprinkler doens't work anymore and can't be upgraded (CodySimstein)

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Troubles with cheats

- bunbunnyny
- Edit In CAS Cheat makes horses un-rideable (simgreen, simgreen)

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Caused by outdated mods

"velocitygrass" wrote:
Just a heads up: If you play the patched game with any flavor of my fewer/no memory mod, wishes disappear and the panels with motives/inventory/etc cannot be displayed at all (clicking the button to expand them does nothing).

So if anyone has this behavior, check if you have an outdated memory mod.

The following bugs are usually caused by a mod:

- Missing interactions
- Missing Traits
- Missing Wants
- Missing LTW
- Unridable horses
- Streching Animals
- Saddles become unremovable

Deformed Pets in CAS
Johna's Stand in CAS and Replaced CAS animations - three flavors

Zoom in CAS not working
Zoom in CAS mod

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Pets related

Misc Horse Issues

- Horses can call firemen to thank them (DreadWizardDM)
- Can't direct a foal to sleep in the stall (Marirae, Twoyys4me)
- Eletronic Safeguard Gates don't let horses through. Also an issue with other gates. Works with new gates. More issues when leading the horse (etherealwog, TanyaRubirose, ZeekSlider, simbilN99, poundpuppy2001)
- Horses try to enter houses, public bathrooms, climb steps etc to get to sims or other pets (Desirai, (CutieKitty)).
- Box stalls when butted up against each other will occasionally say they are being used if the stalls next to them are occupied (JoieDeVivre, corvusdei)
- Foals spontaneously appearing and disappearing
- Sim randomly dismounts horse (Desirai, (CutieKitty))
- "Training Fatigue" moodlet even when he hasn't been training (Lendyyen)
- Mane changes with every saddle (Desirai)
- Horses can't play with the training ball (needs tons of space around)
- Horse not able to exercise (CutieKitty)

Misc Dog/Cats Issues

- Cats can't use elevators (MLadyAzzera).
- Puppy can't be picked up (ldmarko, Rachelrita3)
- Guard House doesn't really work. Burglar still steals stuff (ZeekSlider, ZeekSlider & others)
- Mark as favorite sleeping spot doesn't take priority (ZeekSlider)
- Missing have Fun option on my Cat so laser can't be used (TINA180)
- Kittens get into pet beds, they hang off the edge instead of actually in the bed (Desirai)
- Dogs change to mutts (lolafv, HamtaroLuver3) --> Changing anything on a animal, makes them not pure breed anymore.
- Kittens can't be brought up on the elevator (Conclue)
- Mess-up with the "Best in the Show" pet competition (SimMyLife)
- Can't bring kittens in the car to community lots (DowntownBabe)
- Cat looses play ful trait when playing with the wall dancer (thecub)
- Cats don't put stuff back into the toybox. They are stuck in their mouth (Cyron43) --> Don't place the box outside.
- Problem involving play fetch and celebrities (GrandmaSnoodle)
- Big dogs can't enter high-rises (k2m1too)

Misc Animal Issues

- Annoying Pop-up about becoming BFF with the animals although there are no relationship changes (ajstins, Bonjourwoman)
- Male pets that are adopted or purchased retain their last name 'Horse or Dog' instead of changing to the family name of the Sim household as the females do (JoieDeVivre)
- Households hat have pets up for adoption cannot be evicted, split up, made active household, etc. (Narcissa)
- All pets up for adoption are either kittens or elders (Narcissa)
- No 'Adopt' action for stray even if the relationship level is max (Narcissa, CrayZ).
- Wild horses can't be adopted because "riding level is not high enough" even with level 10 (Narcissa)
- Adopting a pet takes forever and blocks traveling and moving (oldish_gold)
- Random Animal dying (Rachelrita3)
- Animals can be asked to go skinny dipping (LisaV913z)
- Pet family tree not showing anymore (Srich83, Langrussen)
- Turtle leaves a feather when attacked by a cat (Simmerville)

Misc Minor Animal Issues

- Animals that are taken out of their cages, can't be put back (xOEDragonx)
- Escaping animals get stuck on objects Desirai
- Disappearing baby pets in inactive families (Rubysim) --> Used for adoption pool ?
- Adoption might not work very well when SP is turned off (KitKat86)

Misc Stray/wild animal/Unicorn Issues

- Gnomes succeed at repelling strays, which was their advertised function, their attract mode doesn't work, but instead continues to repel (TanyaRubirose)
- Unicorns loose their horns on moving them to a new hood (LisaV913z, DivaOfDarkness, Neeq)
- Can't adopt unicorns or wild horses (ZeekSlider)

Aging issues

- Existent aging issues
- Birds don't live very long (corvusdei)
- Adopted kitten age into adults/elders within days (Anneee, ltd2mp87)
- Pets don't age (albertabrnc, swag6883)
- No one ages (abartel1)
- Everyone is at end of sliders with aging off (Conclue)

Issues with meters & moodlets

- Animal mood meter are stuck or decay very fast (hugsalot12, Fluzzy, corvusdei) --> Can probably be solved with Twallan's Overwatch Mod
- Need-Bars decay very quickly (Penelope)
- Pets social meter decays very fast (samccray139)
- Sims get the betrayed moodlet when horses try for foal (bexta89)

Feeding/Eating issues

- Sims are being served dog food at the restaurant: OMG hilarious glitch thanks to Pets Patch
- Cat keeps going to the food bowl even though they aren't hungry (ajstins)
- Dog lies down to eat (lovenadia)
- Eating cats/dogs half stick through walls (see routing issues below)
- When my dog chews on the bone toy from the toybox, some of the time it floats in mid air behind the dog (KayPapagei)

Ice Cream Truck

- Ice Cream Truck is getting stuck on the road (catloverplayer)

Routing/Animation issues

- Pets can't go down a platform (Marirae)
- Pets get stuck in platforms (PastryOfDeath)
- Pets get stuck in foundations (simsfan95173, Aonir)
- Pets walk through walls & Objects (Nokuoro, Desirai, KayPapagei, Desirai, solari3, solari3)
- Pathing issues when standing next to a horse after having performed a clean hooves or brush (JoieDeVivre).
- Sims are having difficulty putting out fires in their home --> possible routing issue with pets (ZeekSlider)
- When horses get stuck between objects or sims, they will be walking in place but not actually going anywhere (Desirai)
- Sometimes when cats get out of the litter box, they don't animate correctly and just kind of.. disappear then reappear out of the box (Desirai)
- When dogs or cats destroy objects, there's no animation, just noise (Desirai)
- Jump course Routing error (corvusdei)
- Horses can't escape fences (corvusdei)
- Routing issues with bird cage (lovints2)
- Routing issues with horses (Leana30LG)
- Misc routing issues (DijanaMenatas, ashleyadorable, catloverplayer)
- Sims' feet get stuck in the ground on dismounting (KitKat86, reiayuy)
- Dogs get stuck in fences (Beachxbit)
- Horse keeps teleporting into my garage and can't escape throught the open garage door. He also keeps trying to use sim doors (Narcissa)
- Horse trying to nap inside the house (Penelope)
- Horse and sim get stuck after dismounting in the stall (crazylilelf8106)
- Pets and Sims slide instead of walk (svlyn)

Jumping / Action interruption / teleporting
- Sims randomly stopping training, or immediately dismounting after mounting a horse(JoieDeVivre).
- Autonomous actions don't seem to cancel out of another Sim's queue (Nik24X7)
- Terrorizing the Mailman cancels out actions in progress (ZeekSlider)
- Teleporting issue on training course (HamtaroLuver3)
- While on the training ground, horse jumps to porch (Srich83)
- Dog goes to bed but sort of jumps to the back of the small bed then forward to where he should be (midge719)
- Horse and rider getting teleported across the map when doing jumping course (Resender1)

Lifetime wishes, wishes and Lifetime rewards

- LTR change in taste: New music types are not available for choosing (zefiewings)
- Animals don't trigger the "has earned enough for a lifetime happiness award" notification (Leana30LG)
- Equestrian Competition prize money resets on exit/travelling/moving (KitKat86, LisaV913z)
- Missing Pet Rewards (TammyGrantSim)

Freezing and lags

Please check this post for some solutions:
BUG: Lags & Intermittent Freezes

- Game kind of stalls/freezes when I have the dog sniff out collectables (ajstins).
- Issues with the Autumn and Christmas free store sets (Writin_Reg)
- Issue with the Fountain of Youth (DarkAmaranth1966)
- Possible issue with the pet shop items (jonas3333)

Appaloosa Plains Issues

- No change outfit option on Sim in AP (Jurik1124)
- Generating bartender missions for the parks (which don't have bars) (Leana30LG)
- Default bathroom layouts don't accommodate dog (Leana30LG).
- Default house layouts cause pathing issues (Leana30LG).

Misc Issues

- silhouette Pictures in wishes and queue (smjjames, pendragon1980)
- Horse Gnomes don't stop spawning (LisaV913z)
- Upgrade to water trough to 'automatically refill' has resulted in a non removable puddle (Twoyys4me)
- Items from other EPs are missing (purefoysgirl) --> EA is aware and working on the issue.
- Chewed up items appear fine after reloading but the can't be replaced or chewed up again (svlyn)
- Mix-up between dying Sim and Pet (Joolster)
- Sims gets stuck on the riding motion (Lauren919)
- Clock is running very fast on normal (samccray139)
- Pet Shop cannot be found ingame (many reports)
- Sim never got certificate for mastering riding skill (ZeekSlider)
- Visitors are stealing pets after visiting (corvusdei)

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- Some fish are invisible when held up (or very small) (gr1zzly)
- Sim falling asleep even though they have a full energy bar (HarleyGirl)
- Jumping when trying to get mail (lovints2, smjjames)
- Invisible fish in HELS tank & fish bowl(lovints2, Zoan, lovints2)
- School bus not working as it should (ciane, anettesb)
- Sims go swimming in fountains autonomously (legosim12)
- Pregnancy but no maternity leave (ANGELAMERMAID)
- Sims get the dark moodlet while sleeping (possible existing issue, albertabrnc, Desirai)
- Check weekly events not showing on the newspaper and initiates a reset (SimMyLife, (crazylilelf8106))
- Car pool never arrives at destination (samccray139)
- Sim becoming invisible or when right clicking on portrait going to a location the sim isn't at (Resender1)
- Not able to interact with baby (leianajade)
- Issues with Burglar (samccray139)
- Poke Fire animation is broken (Alistu)

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- Temporary cars (the ones that pile up) are stuck after traveling (ZeekSlider)
- Fish go missing after traveling (LadyArora)--> Unknown fish bug --> Fixed by ErrorTrap

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- Objects bought from Consignment Store get put in the family inventory and are stuck there (Jjez)
- Sims randomly turn into consignment store clerks (puffyamiumi22)

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- Lights at clubs are turned off (ZeekSlider)
- Pets investigate Vampires that are not on the lot (Desirai)

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- Sims in bathing suits can't pillow fight (Desirai)
- Issue with stuck sim after learning how to drive (Drood)

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For some testing by Zeekslider, please refer to ZeekSlider's Sims 3 Pets Bug Log