Pets Too Needy?

Yeah I agree they're too attention consuming. You don't have time to want to go and hang out with them because they're always hanging on your tail anyway.

"daisy1989;c-17524246" wrote:
I tend to have more cats than dogs - I love dogs but I they need more care and sometimes that doesn't fit in with my Sims family life.
I have one family with 4 cats, and one of them is really clingy. She basically follows the Sims around the house and never leaves them alone. The others are far more independent.

Also I never realised you can get mouse holes in the game :o

I totally take this back. All the cats are being a nightmare - they just don't leave my Sims alone, are always begging for food or attention and frequently get sick. I've had to stop them going into the bedroom because they keep disturbing their owners whilst they're sleeping. I decided to put one up for adoption in the end as it was just too much. I should have stuck with just 1 cat or gotten a dog XD

Yes and no, dogs are needy, they want you to walk with them every few sims hours and asked you go potty as well, cat on other hand can be left on their own device.

Yes, they're are needy my sims can't go anywhere without her dog or cat would be following her to the bathroom and now my sims on is vacation brought her her furbabies but won't stop bugging when after gave the attention. I don't them taken away but c'mon let my sims be adult for the night.

They do seem very needy mine are rarely in the green on their icon and always want attention no matter what traits they have. Also the dogs always want walking all the time and then their is a separate issue of how long the dog walks take a short walk will take my sims at least 4 sim hours. I know a lot of people complain about how buggy dine out is but I find cats and dogs just as buggy. A lot of the bugs I encounter in my game are from this pack and rarely play pets for this reason. I think the excessive neediness is a bug.

"wylmite1986;d-976407" wrote:
Ok, I love playing the pets and having them in game but I feel like they are really needy like more so then actual pets in real life? Maybe it's just me? But having to like pet them etc like every 10 minutes or so is just a little annoying. Could just be me though. I still love the pets, I just kind of miss getting to control them and see what they were thinking or wanting.

I don't miss controlling the pets, on the whole, but I do find them needy. I mostly no longer have pets in my home, beyond fish, that in this iteration you don't even really need to feed. :open_mouth: I do miss the ability to have the large birds from Sims3. My celebrity Sim really loved his bird. But, yes, the pets tend to be very needy in this game. My celebrity has chickens, though. So, it's almost the same thing.

I have a glitched out pet or something. I just adopted a dog and for a few weeks everything was fine. I talk to the dog and pet them and hug them daily and their automatic pet feeder is set to the shortest time so their needs are never in the red.... I noticed only once the dog aged from puppy to adult things got weird: The dog forgot how to feed itself from the bowl and how to go outside to use the restroom, both without being told to do so. Then several times I would get a notification while my Sim was at work that the dog was in an emergency state and needed me, so I left work early. The dog just had to go to the bathroom... thats it. Now, I will make my sim sit and pet and cuddle the dog for hours and as soon as she is done the dog runs away. She has run away at least 4 times now.... I have no idea what else to do