Got A Notice My Dog Was Running Away …

I posted about this in the bug sections last night, the "combined issues most simmers are having" or something, and rosemow says its a bug, she linked me to an EA help thread. Sorry i cant link myself right now, im on mobile.
When my cat ran away, the household was home and I posted an alert ASAP. The next sim day, my sim goes to her vet clinic then takes the family to a friends house. When they return home, the run away cat was at the playground, I called her over and she came in the house, but her portrait is still gray.
I dont know why you couldn't post an alert though... If you click the phone, it should be the very first tab, and listed at the top... Where "call sadness hotline" usually is when your sims are sad.

Oh look, another bug in the pets expansion, surprise surpirse -_-

"plushtrap_107;c-16214169" wrote:
This happened to me too. I was playing the Delgato family and their dog, Blue, ran away. I posted a missing dog incident on the computer but I couldn't bear to see the little boy and toddler sad so I cheated. I reset Blue so that he came back but the kids were still sad. So I used the sims.remove_all_buffs cheat on them and everybody was happy again :)

Once I restarted the game, the dog was truly gone. Then the parents were able to post the alert. She's back now. :)

You have to make a household with just the pet then merge the houses remove the original pet and it'll be fixed. I hope this helps!!:)

You could turn testing cheats on and right click your pet and click "Reset Object (Debug)"

Happy Simming! <3

I don’t know if this has ever been mentioned but I found a work around to keep pets from actually running away. It only works if you live in a house with a fence. Lock the front door for “all pets”, lock the gates on the fence for “all pets”. Don’t lock the backdoor. When the pet needs to use the restroom, he will go out the backdoor since it’s the only one not locked. He can’t get out of the yard bc it is fenced in and locked. You will still get notifications that the pet is running away but they never do. Life will resume as normal.

it should pop up when you first click the computer, could try and repair game or get a new computer otherwise they still come back pretty quickly my family's cat ran away for day and came back without the alert the same as another family who did post it. Also the option doesn't seem to pop up if they haven't gotten the sad moodlet for missing furry friend.

This happened to me too. I was playing the Delgato family and their dog, Blue, ran away. I posted a missing dog incident on the computer but I couldn't bear to see the little boy and toddler sad so I cheated. I reset Blue so that he came back but the kids were still sad. So I used the sims.remove_all_buffs cheat on them and everybody was happy again :)

@GalacticGal, I'm glad you were able to get your dog back :)

my kitty came back but her picture is still grey can't make her eat or do anything the kitty is sick but can't go too the vet.