Do you play with Pets?

I am a cat lover but my parents won't allow me to get a cat, so having one in the game at least was something i really wanted to try. I dont own C&D yet, but i recently gave the family i play in sims 3 a cat. I chose occasionly since i am not sure yet about how many times i am going to play with them.

I recreated my real life dog in my game and just like in real life she's a member of the family. I do the same things with her in game that I do with my dog. Walk her, feed her, play with her, etc. It's not like some huge feature staring you in the face but I really missed it before it released. One of my sims is also a vet and that's a lot of fun.

Once the knitting pack is released I plan on adding a cat to my sim family. Probably a copy of a cat I once had. So cute to watch them playing with the yarn. <3

I always have pets in my families!

I love their independence and they make the household look more alive.

I would love to play with pets, but I have been very disappointed in the pets pack so I have not been. I have been playing with the my first pet where my sims get a pet rat. Until they fix the dachshund, I don't know if I will play with pets again.

Honestly not only do I appreciate the minor challenge they bring to the game (pets will misbehave autonomously, which gives me SOMETHING to react to and do) I also find them invaluable in my play. Like, they are incredibly useful. They bring up a toddler’s social/attention when parents are busy. Playing with a laser pointer with a cat will raise both fun and social with the efficiency of woohoo, but without the 1. hygiene loss 2. sleeping afterwards, or 3. having to sync up two busy sims to find the time. A good relationship with a pet is like a sadness syphon. Someone die and you don’t cheat to improve moods? Just hug it out with the dog for a while.

I love the pet gameplay. Like, there’s more I would ALSO like, but it’s one of my staples in play. I keep a pet legacy going alongside my sim legacy, and when new kittens are born or a sims childhood cat dies, it really helps me stay invested.

Owning pets stopped being fun when I saw that they got sick every 10 minutes and thus needed a vet visit CONSTANTLY.

I have always loved playing with the pets. But that has become a real challenge since EL and the update. My fur babies often vanish from their home lot for some unknown reason, so I may end up playing non-pet households until that bug is fixed. :/

Mostly when I want my Sorceress to have a feline familiar, or my dark vampire to have a wolf dog.

A life without pets is unimaginable for me. Even in Sims :).

I add pets to households just to give the families in my game some life. Some characteristics.
Actually playing those households? Quite rare.

I got tired of seeing too many puddles of throw up and having to take the pet to the vet. I also didn't like it when they always ran away. Always making my sims sad and they had to put out an alert for their missing pet.

Right now I'm playing a single sim and to give her more happiness I did give her a cat. So far so good, not really getting sick and the cat just wanders off every now and then to different neighborhoods. I'm fine with playing pets as long as it's chill like this. Maybe one or two pets per house. Playing with more than that would give me a headache.

The pets are insanely cute though. I don't mind that they're autonomous either, but that's just me.
Overall I feel like they add characteristics to the household and they're cute, but they're not extremely necessary.