Horse not eating then being taken away

For me it’s happening on the home lot as well. They just stop eating unless a sim goes out and calls them to a feeder or hand feeds. 

I am FURIOUS with this company.

They charge ~1000$ for the full game and yet no DLC EVER functions properly.

This is the 2nd (second!) time my Horse (female) is being taken away because it was "starving" when it just ate and STILL had a full feeder next to it. 

It seems there is something bugged with the Vet Protective Services.

Even if the Horse was left to starve, WHY IS THERE NO WARNING BEFORE IT IS TAKEN AWAY? What is this kind of Early Access? Are we Beta testing the expansion for you? How can you forget to add a warning before a Horse is taken away forever (like it happens with babies or other animals like chickens)???

EA truly is a joke...

This is happening to me both on and off the home lot. Horses are also getting "stuck" sleeping so all of their needs deplete. I was wondering if these issues were related.

Hello All,

Could you please confirm if this issue is the same as this thread https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/HR-Horse-randomly-taken-by-Vet-Protective-Services/td-p/12762967 ?

If yes, please don't forget to hit me on the above-mentioned thread.

I've just had a foal which constantly had to be told to eat and wouldn't go to his mother to be fed. In the socialising category for mothers I'd like to see an option to "Encourage to feed foal", I tried to just get her to socialise hoping she'd feed him but she didn't. They're all Friendly horses too. He was becoming Dazed (I assume with hunger) even when trained to eat hay and he seemed to reach that point about 3 times a day. I had my Sim sleeping next to the stables to keep feeding him. He's gone to his mother once in about 6 hours (real time) and that was only after he was already on solid food. I've switched households as my Sim was just constantly complaining and the other animals were unhappy at a lack of attention. So I maxed their needs and moved on. I was concerned if it continued they'd be taken away.

It's odd though as my adopted foal in a previous household went to an unrelated mare to be fed and was absolutely fine.

@ChaosTheories I've found that my horses get stuck sleeping too if I use CAS, Build Mode or travel while a horse is asleep. When I return to the lot/live mode the horse is stuck until needs deplete completely. I can't wake them up so I get my Sim to travel to a different lot with the sleeping horse, I take them to Duke's Hall Park because it has feeders and fun activities to quickly fill their needs again.

I figured this out after standing at the feeders yelling for them as they starved in their sleep.

So I avoid going into any other modes to avoid it happening again.

Great work around for the sleeping horse!

I have to wonder what the heck EA is really doing about these bugs. I just experienced the Grim Reaper not collecting the dead bug and it has been an issue for 3 yrs!

@PipMenaceI thought that so I tracked it as he got steadier on his legs and started to run, etc.
So, at a few days old and on steady legs he'd still have hunger level at Good and I'd feed him something by hand (once he was weaned) to stop his hunger dropping. But his hunger would still drop soon after and he'd be Dazed until he ate, then he'd immediately lose the Dazed feeling. So as I say I assumed the Dazed feeling was linked to the hunger as arrived with hunger and then it went away after a full meal of prairie grass I'd stocked in the hay feeder.
I've switched households now so I'm going to test when I next add a foal as this didn't happen with a purchased foal and the purchased foal also went to a mare for food very regularly but the foal born in game only did that once, which is one thing I'm certain can't be right. The rest I'll test as I go.

This next horse I'm adding will be created as Flapjack's foal in CAS as I'm adding a daughter for Sienna. So I've tested purchased, bred and next will be a foal that will be created using CAS genetics method.