Fix for pets disappearing

For eight days I have been trying to figure out what was making my pets suddenly disappear, and I may have found a temporary solution to use until the teams fix this bug. I was out of ideas and finally decided to use an in game cheat just to see if it would work. Enable testing cheats then Shift/click on your pet and go to the remove trait section. In the selections there's an option to freeze your pet's motives. I decided to give it a shot since nothing else seemed to be working. I had also noticed how often my cat would have the unhappy face icon in it's thought bubble even though her portrait had the green background which usually indicates the pet is happy. And once I froze the kitty's motives she stopped disappearing off the lot. There are a couple of things you will notice once you do it, so be prepared if your kitties don't use the litter box or eat from the food dish very often. I have not yet tried this on dogs so if you use this with a dog, feel free to let me know how it goes. However, kitty does accept treats and food my Sim cooks for her. She has the friendly, frisky and playful traits, but even when I made a cat with the independent trait that cat would disappear and not come home. Kitty acts normal, is playful and runs about the house and yard but stays home now. It has been three Sim days and no disappearing act so far. Before I froze her motives she would disappear several times during the day. I would travel to another lot, bring her home and off she'd go again in a matter of minutes. Very annoying, and disappointing, because I love having pets in my game. But it became such a hassle to go and find her two or three times a day I was ready to ditch the idea of a pet until the teams fixed that darn bug. That unhappy face icon in her thought bubble just struck me as odd because it was happening ALL the time, even after my Sim gave her a ton of attention. So something is off with our pets' happiness level, that is hidden and we have no way of knowing why the pet is unhappy, but I do know that can trigger a pet to run away. But if the pet had run away, no matter how long I waited the cat would not come home and there was no way to post a lost pet notice. Very odd, I must say. Anyway, I know there are a lot of PC and console players who are dealing with this right now, and I hope my little trick works for them as well as it is for me.