Forum Discussion

4bbaab949a63eb67's avatar
4bbaab949a63eb67
Seasoned Newcomer
3 days ago
Solved

Can't create pet sim with My First Pet Stuff pack

New player on Mac, been playing less than a week on the base game. I purchased My First Pet Stuff pack because I wanted to try to add a pet before spending $50 on Cats & Dogs in case it wasn't for me.

Items from the pack are in my inventory and it's all good until I try to create a pet SIM and the option isn't there.

Is this expected behavior, because I saw videos from really experienced modders and reviewers and they'd have no incentive to mislead anyone.

On the upside, if I can't get this to work, at least I only lost $10 instead of $50!

  • You are unable to create pets such as cats, dogs or horses with the My Pets stuff pack. You need to have the Cats & Dogs pack or the Horse Ranch pack to be able to do that. 
    With My First Pet pack, you can have a hamster, rat or bubalus, with the cage/habitat item that comes with the pack.This link explains about the pack and the items in it. There are items in it that you can use if you have the Cats & Dogs pack as well.
    https://www.ea.com/en/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/buy/addon/the-sims-4-my-first-pet-stuff

2 Replies

  • You are unable to create pets such as cats, dogs or horses with the My Pets stuff pack. You need to have the Cats & Dogs pack or the Horse Ranch pack to be able to do that. 
    With My First Pet pack, you can have a hamster, rat or bubalus, with the cage/habitat item that comes with the pack.This link explains about the pack and the items in it. There are items in it that you can use if you have the Cats & Dogs pack as well.
    https://www.ea.com/en/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/buy/addon/the-sims-4-my-first-pet-stuff

  • Thank you. I was surprised that a few content creators said to go past the messages and figured it would trigger a no access instead of letting me access content I have no xpack for, especially since the advertisement in the EA app targeted me with that specific pack. That kind of marketing tactic is incredibly skeezy. Essentially, EA targeted me with that ad because I looked at the dogs and cats xpack but didn’t purchase because they then ran the my first pet pack with direct targeting hoping to force me into the larger purchase by pushing the my first pet pack knowing full well I’m a brand new user and an easy target.