How do you adopt a stray?

Took me awhile to build up the relationship with the stray before I got the "adopt" option on the interaction menu.

The strays are strange... My vet sim treats other sims pets ... Then sees said pets as strays! Sometimes with the cone of shame still on! Then next time I see them they aren't stray and I've missed the chance to adopt! Its very annoying!

I have a lot of trouble with strays getting adopted right before I adopt them, so make sure that isn't happening

I had this too, and I wanted to adopt a stray cat. In the end, the easiest way to do it, is to type into the cheat bar, testingcheats true
and it will say cheats on. Then shift click the pet you want and add it to family. Hope this works!

You can go to manage households, unplayed households, find that cat or dog, transfer sims between households, and move your cat to your household. I hope you found this good help (Sorry about my English).

I was just friendly with a cat for a few minutes then I came up with the option. I haven't managed it to come up for any dogs yet though.

It’s kind of a bug. Usually you should adopt a stray when you randomly bump into them, but if you call them
over or kind a force a meeting with them , they won’t show up as strays.
I personally haven’t had this issue, but that’s because I have adopted strays pretty quickly

hold down shift and right click and their should be a option to “add to family”

Hi everyone!! I came to this website for help and couldn’t find anything and then shortly after figured it out- so of coarse I wanted to revisit the site to help you guys and others! Bring up the chest bar ( cntrl + shift + c) and type “testingcheats on”
Then, return to the pet you wish to adopt and press ( shift + left click)
Click the option to “add to family”. ❤️

I made friends with a stray cat and then all i did was go to manage worlds - manage households - found the stray cat i made friends with on 'other households', clicked on him moved him to my household. and now lives with me