giving up a pet for adoption

@fairymama47 did your pets breed on their own? cause my cats did without me telling them to... and i sold the kitten. and thats a good idea that that KHS12 gave. I agree with you though, I wush they had that option in the game cause a cat cafe or pet shelter sounds like a really good and fun idea

"fairymama47;c-16169705" wrote:
how do you sell them? the only option I saw on the phone was to give up for adoption...hope there is a better way.

Try at the flea market :smiley:

"Simsweetie;c-16169609" wrote:
If you sell the puppies/kittens the owners aren't upset. But I don't know if they can then be bought by someone else or not.

I sold my puppy that my sim had and my sim was depressed for 24 hours. It was so sad

I guess it's a bit like when your offspring get taken away for neglect. The game just deletes them. Which is rather sad. It surely wouldn't be too difficult to add them to the adoption pool?

"Cheekybits;c-16169940" wrote:

"Simsweetie;c-16169609" wrote:
If you sell the puppies/kittens the owners aren't upset. But I don't know if they can then be bought by someone else or not.

I sold my puppy that my sim had and my sim was depressed for 24 hours. It was so sad

Yep, they can definitely get the sad moodlet if puppies/kittens are sold rather than given up for adoption.

When you give away or sell a pet, you can't pick who it goes to but they don't automatically get deleted from the game. When I was testing this stuff out, I gave away the family's cat and she ended up in her own nameless household:

https://i.imgur.com/d9QkKTf.jpg

She didn't show up in the adoption list....although those lists change each time....so I don't know if she eventually would have ended up in the list. I kept an eye out for her wandering around BB too but didn't see her and I didn't play it much longer before resetting to test more stuff.

You can definitely send them to other households through the household management screen....although the transfer of "ownership" within the game seems to be a little wonky right now if you do that.

if you put them up for adoption, you'll need to switch households afterward to the one you want to adopt them. otherwise the selection pool refreshes and yours won't be there. based on my experience anyway.

I learned that sims become Very Sad simply from watching another sim give up a pet for adoption. They do not even have to be in the same household, just witness the process.

The sim I was playing had befriended the premade cat lady's kitten during a visit. So I switched to the cat lady to gift the kitten to my sim. Turned out there was no option to directly transfer the kitten and I had to give it up for adoption. Next thing I did was switching back to my original sim and she had the Very Sad moodlet from a pet given away. I had her return home, call the adoption agency asap, the kitten I had just adopted out was in the pool of adoptees just fine (though I had to re-introduce myself to him) and joined my household before the sad moodlet ran out. My sim didn't have any animal-related trait, b.t.w.

I am not 100% sure why they don't show up, but as an alternative, you could move the puppies you don't want to keep in to another household in the same world....Just for a temporary fix, and then later you can place them wherever you'd like.

thanks for the idea KHS12 but I just really wish they had given us the ability to rescue and adopt out puppies and kittens, you would think it would be built into the game. I had dreams of opening a pet shelter or cat cafe. Once again I am disappointed like I was with Restaurants.