Have your pets been extra needy since Seasons?

LittleMsSam has a mod that gets rid of the neediness bug. And it works very well. I was having the same problem with a dog and it was driving me up the wall. It was taking twice as long to do anything because of the constant attention. I began having this problem even before Seasons but it finally got to the point of downloading a small mod or place little Bitsy up for adoption. I chose the mod. :)

In my game, this only happens if I pause at (presumably) the same moment a pet tries to initiate an action.
It loops over and over again, as if the game can't comprehend that action not being completed right away.

I was surprised at first now I just unpause the game quicker and find another quiet moment to pause again.
I'm glad it never happened to me during live game, I could not stand it.

Yes, in my game the sims can barely do anything without having like 10 pet the dog action queuing up. Gardening is rally annoying, the dog will follow the sim and every plant the sims waters, the dogs asks for attention. The sim stops and pets the dog, this happens endlessly. Sometimes many more interactions than usually possible queue up and they all say PET PET PET PET PET PET PET.

I started a new save.
Also with a new pet the neediness has decreased, though it does still occur.
It might be worth noting that the very needy pet had the traits friendly, smart and playful, while the new pet is friendly, smart and a sleuth. I don't know how much of a difference this makes though.

I tried again on a new game. Mayor Whiskers' traits are; aloof, talkative, and prowler.
First day of new game, my sim got back home after adopting him. Filled his pet dish, he ate and went to the bathroom. My sim fixed her food and while trying to eat this happened. The pet Mayor Whiskers ques kept going off screen and never stopped. See picture. ETA. As you can see, his needs are in the green.

I haven't had interactions going off the screen but my sims do want to pet the dog/cat a lot - only one interaction though so fairly easy to cancel but still somewhat annoying. They also keep telling me they're hungry when there are two full food bowls available to them! Some of them will only eat from them if my sims call them to eat.. which didn't happen before Seasons. I really hope this gets fixed soon as my sims love their pets but they are being extra needy at the moment!

Littlesam made already a bugfix for this one and freezing to death sims not played while jogging.
It's the best Option before it's real fixed.
http://littlemssam.de/random-bug-fixes/

I did a search at EA questions and answers. They're researching it. Here's links to see. Yay!
https://twitter.com/SimGuruGrant/status/1012067294015455232
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Pet-Filling-Queue-Task-List/m-p/6699614/highlight/true#M60331

"DragonAge_300905;c-16572596" wrote:
I did a search at EA questions and answers. They're researching it. Here's links to see. Yay!
https://twitter.com/SimGuruGrant/status/1012067294015455232
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Pet-Filling-Queue-Task-List/m-p/6699614/highlight/true#M60331

What a typo. :p

I've noticed this happening in my game too. It's kind of annoying, but most of the time I catch it and I'm able to get rid of it.

If you don't mind mods, LittleMsSam has a mod called "Obsessed Pet Pet Fix". Description is as follows, "Since the Seasons Patch Pets are initiating Petting of Sims which makes Sims obsessed with petting them over and over again. This hopefully stops them."

You'll find it at http://littlemssam.de/random-bug-fixes/ - it's one of her many small bug fixes she has put into one download. You just have to run this one tiny mod to fix the obsession with pets until EA fixes it. There's a bunch of small mods in this file. Just use the Pet Pet Fix if you want a relatively mod-free game. her work is top notch. Always updated. Always being fixed if something breaks. I don't know when she finds time to sleep!