thank you for a vanilla solution! it has helped me finally figure out this bs
i ended up making a family, moving them in, deleting the adult with MCCC and then evicting the single pet household from the lot releasing them into the households as a single pet
EDIT: actually this only seemed to work for Mayor Whiskers, Captain unghosts :|
and idk how to Re-ghost him
Oh yep that's another bug! [CD] Captain Whitaker is no longer a ghost | EA Forums - 11969753
Someone in that thread said he needs to be an elder before the game will let him be a ghost again, dogs are only allowed to die of old age
