Missing Dog

The dog probably ran away. Try having one of its owner's put up a missing dog notice. I think you can access it on the computer or the phone. My Sim family got their dog back.

"GoldenBuffy;c-16284807" wrote:
Okay, thanks! I will try that.

Is the dog still part of your family and just greyed out? Like a picture of it is still next to your sims. That's what happened when my cat ran away. The game suggested I post like the OP said. But if the dog isn't even in your family, then I doubt it ran away. I hope it's the first. After the puppies were born, one of my sims and the set of triplets completely disappeared. That is likely a mod issue, though. I hope your dog comes back. :)

"GoldenBuffy;c-16284859" wrote:
No, his picture is gone. Awwww so the game purged him? This is so sad. :(

But the question is why? Can you go back another save? Or have you saved the family to your gallery? I think I might do that after I recover my sims. Just in case. lol In fact, if I can't get my sims to recover, I'll take the new pups and dogs, save them to my gallery, and delete the old dogs and replace them with the dog family (if I can do that).

Did the dog die from old age?

Hello
I am sorry that your dog has gone missing :(
Try recovering an earlier version of your current save game to play, and see if the dog is there. To do that , go to the main screen of sims 4, and click on the " load game " button.Click on your save game file picture. Then click on the " recover game " button down the right hand side bottom of the screen,. Press on an earlier version of the save game from the menu that pops up. Then load that save game version

"GoldenBuffy;c-16284879" wrote:
Sadly no. I need to do individual saves, but I haven't up to this point, so I can't go back to a save before the dog vanished.

Besides what Rose said to do, the only other thought I have is to:

1. Restart your computer and then restart the save again.
2. Clear out your caches.

3. If neither of those work, then I'd repair your game to see if that fixes it.

I think I'll just make them a new dog at this point. And also make a new save. :D

"GoldenBuffy;c-16284952" wrote:
I think I'll just make them a new dog at this point. And also make a new save. :D

Yeah, if you don't care that much, that's what I'd do too. :D At least you aren't too upset by it. :smiley:

lol I actually was, but I just had to remind myself that this is just a game. :D I think I would be more upset if the family actually reacted to the dog being gone.

"GoldenBuffy;c-16284948" wrote:

"JimG72;c-16284931" wrote:
Did the dog die from old age?

No, he wasn't even half way through his adult life yet.

"rosemow;c-16284939" wrote:
Hello
I am sorry that your dog has gone missing :(
Try recovering an earlier version of your current save game to play, and see if the dog is there. To do that , go to the main screen of sims 4, and click on the " load game " button.Click on your save game file picture. Then click on the " recover game " button down the right hand side bottom of the screen,. Press on an earlier version of the save game from the menu that pops up. Then load that save game version

I play multiple families, and I should really save them individually, but I haven't. Would I still be able to go back to a previous save?

You can still go back to an earlier save if you play multiple families in the save. It will be earlier stage in the save game though, so you will be missing some of the game progress that you had since that time.