Is there any way to cure your pets fears?

"DeKay;c-16168361" wrote:
I've never really tried to fix it to calm them down. My sim's kitten is afraid of the computer and stove. :D But I just ignore it.

I ignore their fears as well. Don’t like the TV? Oh well. Don’t like the oven? Oh well. A Sim’s gotta eat and a Sim’s gotta have fun.

@missmeso @SimTrippy That's really handy to know if that is how it works, so thanks :)

Sounds like a great feature absolutely demolished by overzealous possibilities and overzealous AI acting out the fear too much.

"DeservedCriticism;c-16169085" wrote:
Sounds like a great feature absolutely demolished by overzealous possibilities and overzealous AI acting out the fear too much.

To a certain extent, but I do like the feature I just wasn't sure if calming the pet made a difference but it seems that it might do. I was just worried that there was nothing you could do about it.

I have a vet Sim with a fox and raccoon (recently added a Saint Bernard). The fox had a fear of the vacuum. I calm it down every time I could..in a short time there was not the option to calm down, but the fox stopped shaking and just had a no vacuum bubble. It had 100 % relationship with owner. The raccoon had zero fears to date.

I am just looking forward to a mod which will remove pets' fears and that's it... I ignore it for the time being but it's very bothersome. They just fear way too many things and can't get rid of those fears :(

It could also be your computers. Higher End Graphics Cards lead to better game play. I've had the fear thing come up, but it's never been this long as some of you are saying. You just go and calm the pet down, no need to put items into other rooms (unless you really want to). In real life animals are scared of things that seem 'ordinary' to us (such as my 2 year old Husky being scared of loud noises).

I love that they added it into the game, and in my game the only time my animals are scared of things is when the toilet flushes or the shower is used or the TV is turned on (which signifies loud noises or noises that can startle animals and some people). It adds a world of realism to the game, imo.

'World of realism to the game'? ... Woah, wait a moment. A dog being so afraid of a -normal- household item in the adulthood means only that it was either abused or not raised correctly (not exposed to those things at a young age to realize they don't mean any harm). It's definitely not the world of realism except if you wished for a world of overly frightened dogs that can't be calmed down and 'trained' to get used to a certain object even if they show fear towards it in beginning.

So this is something intresting I've found, I had a fireplace in my house and my fox was a bit scared if it but later on my fireplace started a fire in the house, my sim put it out but now my fox seems to be really scared of it, even going so far as hiding under the sofa or avoiding the room all together.

"Leia;c-16175360" wrote:
'World of realism to the game'? ... Woah, wait a moment. A dog being so afraid of a -normal- household item in the adulthood means only that it was either abused or not raised correctly (not exposed to those things at a young age to realize they don't mean any harm). It's definitely not the world of realism except if you wished for a world of overly frightened dogs that can't be calmed down and 'trained' to get used to a certain object even if they show fear towards it in beginning.

If you read my post i meant it added a “world of realism” to the game in that the animals in my game only react to things that have just been turned on (the toilet flushing, the tv being turned on etc.). And as it’s a game, there’s no talk of abuse? So unless you’re implying my real life dog was abused as a child, i don’t see the point of mentioning that?