Sims 4 Cats and Dogs Furry Missions

@SimmeringPassion , Yes it gets a bit confusing since back then the console versions of the Sims, Sims 2, and Sims 3 were always very different from PC/Mac versions! Sometimes it is hard to remember them all.  Then you add things like The Sims Bustin' Out, Sims Medieval, The Urbz, Sims Castaway, and My Sims , and it gets even more confusing! 😅  But I'm glad you had fun on this walk down Memory Lane! 💗

With the Pet Carpool, I always imagined the human carpool driver being asked what they do for a living, and then answer that they drive pets to and from their jobs! 😂  Then the person asks "Do the owners come along?" and the driver says "No, just the pets!".  You have to wonder what that driver would do if the pet went to the bathroom, threw up, or started tearing up the car upholstery! 🤔😱😅

The reason why they didn't include Create a Style in the Sims 4, from what I remember them saying years ago, was because in The Sims 3 it caused some people's computers to lag horribly.  This made sense to me, since I was one of the people it happened to! 😥 This lag would happen any time you went into CAS or Build & Buy Mode.  It would take around 15 or so minutes to load! That wouldn't be so bad, except when I would not like the results in LIve Mode, or change my mind, or remember something I forgot to change... and then I had to wait another 15 min for me to load CAS or B & B Mode again! 😭  Granted, I believe this mostly happened to people who saved a lot of swatches, which I did! I downloaded a bunch of CC patterns and then recolored them in every color combo that was pleasing to me and then saved all the ones I liked!   So mine probably wouldn't have lagged so much upon loading B & B Mode or CAS if I hadn't done that. It worked fine at first when I didn't have a lot of swatches saved.  But had I known that would happen, I would have been more careful with what I saved and didn't save!  I was not the only person this happened to, but the other people probably saved a great amount of swatches or else had a weaker computer.  (This is a totally separate issue from gameplay lag in Live Mode, but that is why The Sims 4 was not made to be an open world game). 
So, when I found out that TS4 would not have the CASt wheel, I was both thrilled and devastated! Thrilled because it wouldn't take me forever to load CAS and B&B Mode, but devastated that my favorite feature from TS3 was gone.  And since I thought TS3 didn't have as much fun gameplay as TS2, I really relied on the CASt wheel for my fun in the game. 

So, I don't think they took Create a Style out so that it could feel refreshed for TS5 (they wouldn't know at that point if there was even going to be a TS5 or not). They might have even tried to include it in TS4, but even if they didn't, I think they had those people with lesser computers in mind, and they probably couldn't get it to work in time for it to not lag so much on those computers.  Hopefully they can get it to work well on lesser computer if they decide to include it in TS5 (if there is going to be a TS5), and I would also hope they warn people not to save every pattern in every color that they come across! 

So I understand why CASt wasn't in TS4, but I just would have liked it better if they let us recolor the frames of things like beds separate from the fabric, like they did in TS2! That, and I wish there was a collection of wood swatches that came with every item so we could match all the woods to one another. They have tried to correct this recently, so it is better! 👍😃

LOL! While the cats who played with the dog's tail are certainly cute, the dog just did it because he loves the attention and loves all other creatures in his pack, and visitors that his humans accepted.  He is a very friendly and affectionate dog! 🥰  The cats are very cute though! Super soft and fluffy! 💗

@SimmeringPassion , yes, I loved the whole design for Sims Medieval! 😍 Although some of the clothing, especially with the pirate pack, leaned more on the Renaissance style of clothing. 😅

I remember with Sims Bustin' Out that I had my Sim have 2 children (one girl and one boy)  in each area and I would name them names that fit that area. 🤣 
And in the Urbz, I was thrilled that The Black Eyed Peas were featured and had their music in the game! 💗 
Sims Castaway was a good fit for the Sims franchise! A lot of fun! 🥳  Most people that I've heard that played it really liked it too! I forgot that the hari would grow! 🤨😎
I really loved MySims.  I knew it was made so that younger people could play a Sims game that is more appropriate for their age, but even as an adult I really enjoyed it! Kind of like Animal Crossing, where it is a very kid-friendly game that any age can enjoy! 
I loved how all the characters were unique and I loved collecting the essences and then using them to build things! I love to collect in games, but it was nice to have a reason to collect!  I think it might have been in MySims: Kingdoms where there was a Vampire girl named Yuki that was adorable and said funny things like "I want to bite your face"! 😅 I also really loved Poppy and Violet! 

Exactly! I always envisioned the animals trashing the carpool limos! 😱🤣 The doors opened automatically as they would open on the side opposite of the driver!  😄

Well, the lag related to the CASt wheel swatches and the lag in gameplay are 2 separate issues.  If you had all the packs installed but hardly any swatches saved, CAS and B&B Mode would not lag.  The lag was mostly with people that saved a lot of swatches to the game, causing it to have to load all those swatches each time you used a function that allowed you to change those swatches. So if you didn't use it that much, it wasn't a problem (unless, maybe if you played with a really low-end computer) . So my CAS and B/B Mode lag were in large part caused by my actions.   The gameplay lag was an entirely separate problem.  This was certainly made worse by lesser computers, but I thought I had a mid-range computer and my game lagged horribly, and only about a year and a half into TS3. (My TS4 didn't start to lag until about 6 years into TS4, and then it was only a little bit.) EA even advised not playing with all the packs installed.  The worst culprit of this was the Island Paradise pack, which was a wonderful pack, but extremely laggy!  I think TS3 is a better fit for the computers today than the computers that a lot of us had in the late '00s and early '10s! 

I would think they are making TS5 as we speak, but it will be a few years before we see it. Keep in mind also that there are things going on in the real world that might have slowed their progress down a bit, so there is no telling when we could TS5.   But nothing is certain until it is officially announced!  And then we will have to wait until the pack with the dogs and cats (and hopefully other pets) is released!  I would really love parakeets in the game since I grew up with dogs and parakeets! 💗

And yes, animals are very good for our health!  They give us comfort, laughter, joy, affection, and love! 🥰