Have your pets been extra needy since Seasons?

"tobumon;c-16571472" wrote:
I can't believe you guys instantly get rid of your pets once they 'become annoying.' I hope you don't do this with real pets. I would never abandon my SimDogs Buddy and Darnell due to bugs!!!

It's not that it got annoying. For me I couldn't do anything with out my sim filling his queue with pet dog interaction. I mean like off the top of the screen. Can't put anything else in the queue so I had to clear them, then they went right back. I have had a dog for 14 years. So please done assume I am a bad pet owner because I wanted to be able to play the game.

"AceofSpades2231;c-16571745" wrote:
So please done assume I am a bad pet owner because I wanted to be able to play the game.

I said I 'hope,' so you're actually the one assuming that I'm assuming.

I have the same issue but usually my Sims are busy doing something at the time, so the petting interactions drop from the queue pretty quick. Sims 4 Pets are the most 'pet-like' of all the pets in the series, so I would think that ppl would fall in love with their pets, so I find it rather odd that people are rather quick to get rid of them after all the time they spent with their pets.

Note that there -are- people IRL who send their pets off to the pound as soon as they start scratching the furniture or barking a lot. If people can't tolerate the actions of their pets, then IMO they shouldn't be owning any. This thread just reminded me of these people.

Yes, every time my sim sits down to eat she gets right back up to pet the cat 3 times. Even when I cancelled the interaction it came right back up. I just thought she really loved the cat lol.

I noticed that stray cats all seem to be meowing excessively, and when my sim had a baby the baby wasn't consolable, along with the parents needs deterioting faster than before. If you have the washer and dryer on the lot it is almost impossible to keep up with the dirty clothes. I also noticed things seemed to be breaking more than usual.

I didn't have the petting bug but I did go into a household with four cats and the newest cat, who was adopted as a stray, was suddenly non-stop violently ill, passing out, and loaded with fleas. My Sim happened to be a top level veterinarian so she brought the cat to the hospital to be treated. But when she brought the cat back home, it bugged again and started throwing up in a loop, even though the game registered the cat as not being sick. My Sim was just cleaning up after the cat and couldn't focus on anything else so I adopted out the cat. I couldn't even give her a wellness treat, it was grayed out.

So, yeah. Something in Seasons bugged the pets.

I don't have a dog, but my cat keeps asking for clean litter box and she has the top of the line self-fleaning model. I've tried selling the old one and buying a new one but after a while she's begging again.

I have not noticed a difference. My pets have always been over the top needy. The pack I was looking forward to having the most and I can not stand playing with pets at all. I hope this is something they fix.

Forcefully needy. A dozen for more petting interaction will queue up and if I'm really lucky it won't cancel my sims current action. Forget having multiple pets. I've gotten rid of all the pets in my households because it was making my game so frustrating.
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I ve got rid of all pets for the time being, they are so annoying at the moment. Hopefully they will fix this.

"tobumon;c-16571472" wrote:
I can't believe you guys instantly get rid of your pets once they 'become annoying.' I hope you don't do this with real pets. I would never abandon my SimDogs Buddy and Darnell due to bugs!!!

You do know it’s just a game don’t you? They are not real pets. Stop taking it so seriously, people play sims to have fun, bugs stop people having fun. Just because someone gets rid of pets in a computer game does not make them a bad real life pet owner, you re being absolutely ridiculous.