"Sharonia;c-17724325" wrote:
I had the same issue with my sim family except it wasn't the butler it was their dogs. I was hoping to have them vacation and leave the pets behind with my imagination believing a neighbor was taking care of the dogs but game had other ideas and forced the dogs upon my sims vacation. It kind of ruined the experience a little as I didn't want to have to take care of the pets while trying to experience the new content.
Well, then I guess it was a good idea for me to use manage households and move my family's pets to another family while they went on vacation. I wasn't worried that they would travel with the family (but apparently that would've happened), I was just worried that the game might not take care of them alone in the house, even though, I guess it should.
There really should be a way to exclude pets like you can exclude sims from travelling. And also, perhaps if you have a butler, there should be a popup asking if you want the butler to travel with the family, because I suppose it's possible some people want it that way.