Horses are too social!

I was actually annoyed by this, as my horse kept spamming the listen to interactions on all the Sims of my household even though his social need was in fact already excellent, the horse even kept coming into my Sims' home even though the doors were locked for him. So I modded it out. It's my game so I want to decide the interactions I do with my horse (plus the listen to interaction is also not fun to watch as a player).

Anyone interested might download the mod here:
https://www.seebee.de/sims4me/index.php?list=35#

Well, I suppose you have learned your lesson: Never give an animal the Friendly trait! :D They won't give you any peace. It's the same with cats and dogs, and even human sims. I only use the Outgoing trait when I'm really planning to have their entire life revolve around socialising. Leave them alone for five minutes and their social bar will be glowing red.

As others have suggested, the solution is animal companions. Goats and sheep are similar to chickens in that they're fairly self-sufficient as long as you keep them fed and clean. They'll eat the same hay and prairie grass as horses and can get whatever attention they need from interactions with other animals. One of my knitting ladies has about eight mini sheep of different colours to supply her with wool, never interacts with them other than for shearing, and they're fine. Very low-maintenance.

"GrumpyGlowfish;c-18299803" wrote:
Well, I suppose you have learned your lesson: Never give an animal the Friendly trait! :D They won't give you any peace. It's the same with cats and dogs, and even human sims. I only use the Outgoing trait when I'm really planning to have their entire life revolve around socialising. Leave them alone for five minutes and their social bar will be glowing red.

As others have suggested, the solution is animal companions. Goats and sheep are similar to chickens in that they're fairly self-sufficient as long as you keep them fed and clean. They'll eat the same hay and prairie grass as horses and can get whatever attention they need from interactions with other animals. One of my knitting ladies has about eight mini sheep of different colours to supply her with wool, never interacts with them other than for shearing, and they're fine. Very low-maintenance.

All a sim needs is a plant they can talk to when they get lonely ( at least at a certain skill level ). Too bad a horse can’t talk to prairie grass….. lol, but a goat, lamb, or other animals would be a good companion. All animals need some form of attention. One of my sim families ( adult man and wife ) has a hunting dog, and he needs to be interacted with some what daily too. Their chickens are in a fenced area, and I have them interact daily with them as well.

My first horse I got was a rescue, it had the needy trait. After a bit of game time, I went into cas and changed the traits to brave, independent dropping the needy. Still wanted too much attention or kept getting sad because it wanted hand feeding which was a symptom of being needy. I changed the traits again and dropped the brave and left just independent. Horse still had need issues. I got a goat named him Arthur and he did not like the horse, just would not be friendly to the horse. I put a mirror up in the barn thought maybe Tornado(horse) would think there was another horse. Nope. I got rid of the goat, I am not too impressed with them. You need to box them into a small area, if not be prepared for them to roam. We were living on the large lot in Henford, goat took off and wandered down to the lake area, I called for him to come home and it took forever, it made me a little sick just watching him bounce all the way back home. The bouncing is cute at first, but then its like too much hassle. I didn't have a problem selling the goat. Got a dog. They like each other. The children are home schooled and they help with chores.

Horses can't go up steps, so the easiest way to keep them out is have some steps on your house, I don't know if goats and sheep can climb stairs but they don't come into my homes so maybe it works for them too.

A ranch hand helps with socializing with all the animals, I got the "free services" reward trait, so that helps.

I use the biggest property that came with the new world and it sort of contains all the animals without a fence. Plant plenty of the grass close to the barn and house and the goats don't wander much, they do follow the horses. Chickens are best contained, but the goats really like them so they all keep their socials up.

I have really been enjoying playing the game, I usually build more than I play, but that has changed.

I find it to help a lot by having more than one horse. They will socialize with eachother.

"83bienchen;c-18299801" wrote:
I was actually annoyed by this, as my horse kept spamming the listen to interactions on all the Sims of my household even though his social need was in fact already excellent, the horse even kept coming into my Sims' home even though the doors were locked for him. So I modded it out. It's my game so I want to decide the interactions I do with my horse (plus the listen to interaction is also not fun to watch as a player).

Anyone interested might download the mod here:
https://www.seebee.de/sims4me/index.php?list=35#

Thank you!! <3

My sim has two horses, Sherlock and Watson, and a mini goat and a mini sheep, and the animals are always interacting with each other. It seems to really help. The horses even groom each other! Not that they don't get any attention from my sim however. :)

Yeah, they can be pretty annoying specially if you let them free roam, my household with one freeroaming horse has loads of sheep and chickens, a cow and a cat plus alot of rabbits and three sims, still the horsey is rather pushy...

My other household with two horses has the two of them fenced off, and that feels way less annoying tho the "listen to..." still comes up.

So I might fence the other horse in too, together with the sheep probly.