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Re: [FIXED] [CD] Sims Can't Lecture/become companion for adopted Pets

Product: The Sims 4
Platform: Mac
Which language are you playing the game in? Français
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.47.49.1220
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them 
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have a cat, dog, kitten or puppy in your Sim household. Wait for the pet to do some kind of unwanted behavior such as playing in puddles, drinking from puddles, waking up Sims, eating human food, or in the case of cats, walking on counters. Click on the pet and look in the Friendly social category for the option to lecture the pet about the misbehavior.
What happens when the bug occurs? The option to lecture the pet about the misbehavior does not show up, resulting in Sims being unable to train out their pets' misbehavior.
What do you expect to see? Sims should be able to lecture their cats, dogs, puppies and kittens about misbehavior in order to correct those unwanted behaviors.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes but even happens vanilla
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Not sure
Please describe the patch or change you made. I have noticed this since at least the previous patch 1.46.18.

Since the Friend of the Animals Aspiration requires that a Sim train out two pet misbehaviors, and this bug makes it so that pets can't be lectured to correct misbehaviors, this bug effectively breaks that Aspiration unless you use a mod like UI Cheats or the cheat code aspirations.complete_current_milestone.

*Used BlazeBard's reply as a template and added my own details.

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  • Nephila126's avatar
    Nephila126
    7 years ago

    Yeah I have 2 sims and a cat and a dog. My Male sim has the Friend of Animals aspiration and he can't lecture either of the pets or become either of their companion, yet the female can do both of these things for some reason. It's super frustrating honestly and this needs to get fixed. Otherwise the aspiration is impossible to complete..

  • Out of the 5 sims who have owned pets (different households) 2 (3 inc the notes below) out of 5 could lecture.

    One I moved from another save into the world and she then could lecture whereas before she couldn't.