How can I make my pets get along?

I believe there is an interaction 'Be friendly to ...' It may not be there for kittens and puppies though (may be there only for grown cats and dogs) or the owner may need a higher relationship before it comes up.

"AprilDawn;c-16234902" wrote:
I believe there is an interaction 'Be friendly to ...' It may not be there for kittens and puppies though (may be there only for grown cats and dogs) or the owner may need a higher relationship before it comes up.

Hmm okay, ta, will keep an eye out for it when they age up :)

"AprilDawn;c-16234902" wrote:
I believe there is an interaction 'Be friendly to ...' It may not be there for kittens and puppies though (may be there only for grown cats and dogs) or the owner may need a higher relationship before it comes up.

My kittens have aged now, do you know how high their relationship with the owner has to be by any chance? It's currently good friends, does it have to be even higher than that? :/

"samemie;c-16235008" wrote:

"AprilDawn;c-16234902" wrote:
I believe there is an interaction 'Be friendly to ...' It may not be there for kittens and puppies though (may be there only for grown cats and dogs) or the owner may need a higher relationship before it comes up.

My kittens have aged now, do you know how high their relationship with the owner has to be by any chance? It's currently good friends, does it have to be even higher than that? :/

I think only friends should be enough. I've seen the option come up then

I checked in one of my saves that my sims have 6 pets - it is apparently a trait related interaction only because it only comes up on the dog that has the friendly trait so the dogs would have to have the friendly trait for that interaction to come up. You could try using cheats to change their traits.
Are they actually fighting a lot or just not having much to do with each other? Even in the house with 6 pets - the pets don't have much interaction with each other positive or negative - they all just kind of do there own thing - so that is pretty normal. They don't seem to play with each other much like they did in Sims 2 pets :(

Okay, I am so glad that someone brought this up - because I am curious about it as well!

I have this cat named Star. She's the first pet in my current favorite save. She's the "Queen of the House." One of the Sims in this house has a perfect relationship with her.

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She has not gotten along with ANY of these cats that I have tried to add to the house. Star doesn't have the Friendly Trait & neither do any of these cats. She got into many fights with these two cats. I just felt so bad, and I put them up for adoption. Star was in the house first, so I didn't think it would be fair to put her up for adoption. *I'm such a bad pet owner*

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I haven't seen the "be nice to" option come up for any of these cats. I recently added this cat to the house. He and Star have gotten into one fight. Since then, they sniff each other and then they go about their business. Since they have only gotten into one scuffle, I kept him in the house. And the fact that he's SO cute didn't hurt. ;)

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@TheSimsBoi13

Cats would be the same - would need the friendly trait. So many fights seems odd though - was playing a house with 6 pets and only one has the friendly trait and I do not remember much fighting. And actually it is a animal rescue house so only one cat and one dog are their permanent pets - the other ones they adopt, get well, clean up, train up, and then I use manage worlds to give them to other sims households - even with new cats and dogs coming in all the time I do not remember much fighting. Some will fight with cats/dogs outside the house when they are roaming around and I imagine any with an aggressive trait might fight - though I think they mainly harass sims and not other pets. Maybe try catnip for cats or maybe there is a treat that helps - not sure about that - I mainly use the wellness treat so do not remember what all the treats are or do.

You are not a bad pet owner - likely just personality clashes! I have cats in real life and some like each other and some don't - even after years of living together - some of my cats will still fight every once in a while - I just stomp my foot on the floor and that startles them and they stop or I separate them for a while until they cool down!

There is something strange in the game in general that I have seen others write on the forums about and have seen in the game myself - like a mean greeting - it looks like two sims doing the teen 'act tough' interaction to each other when they meet (there is also a kiss-kiss one now) - maybe that is somehow causing more fighting?

Your cats are so cute - the one looks like the Pink Panther! So sorry you had to put them for adoption :(

"AprilDawn;c-16235372" wrote:
I checked in one of my saves that my sims have 6 pets - it is apparently a trait related interaction only because it only comes up on the dog that has the friendly trait so the dogs would have to have the friendly trait for that interaction to come up. You could try using cheats to change their traits.
Are they actually fighting a lot or just not having much to do with each other? Even in the house with 6 pets - the pets don't have much interaction with each other positive or negative - they all just kind of do there own thing - so that is pretty normal. They don't seem to play with each other much like they did in Sims 2 pets :(

Huh, that's interesting and that might be it. I think one of the cats is friendly, but I'd have to check that and it might just be that I was clicking on the wrong one, ie the one who isn't friendly. As kittens they seemed to fight, they'd hiss at each other a lot and their thought bubbles made me think they didn't like each other. I'll have a look and see if the friendly one has the "be nice to" option. I was just hoping to breed them, that's the only reason I was bothered by it. Thanks for the advice, hope you're right :)

After making my sim companions with the friendly cat, there's still no "be nice to" option :( She can encourage them to breed but a) I assume if they don't like each other they won't and b) I was hoping they'd just breed on their own for story purposes.

Sorry about the misinformation about cats - I had checked to see if cats also had the friendly trait in CAS, and they do, so I assumed they would have the "Be friendly to ..." interaction also but I just did another test play with a dog and cat - both with the friendly trait - and only the dog has that interaction. Not sure why cats do not have it - may be an oversight - not sure. They may still breed - do not really think they are that fussy about who they do so with! Not sure though - I have not played with breeding at all - have just read that pets often get pregnant when roaming around.