Sick pets can be annoying, but they're practically IMPOSSIBLE in rotational play

I log into a household I haven't played in a while with pets. There is always at least one pet sick, and with more than one pet sometimes more than one, or even ALL of them. I take them to the vet. With more than one pet, since you can't check in more than one pet at a time, this is often an all day affair as I cycle through different appointments. As I wait, I see the other households I play who have pets coming into the pet hospital with sick pets--something the game generates in order to provide "patients" for the hospital. And I know that even tho I see them complete their appointment, when I log into their household, the pets will still be sick. And I'll have to take them to the vet. And the whole thing will start all over again.

This is my hell. My purgatory. Despite how much I love having cats and and dogs in my game, this pushes me to the point where I wish I'd never bought it. It's not only frustrating, it's emotionally draining--I love this furry little bundles of pixels, and seeing them sick all the time is awful. No pet actually gets sick this much unless there's something seriously wrong with them. Programming them to be constantly be coming down with things, simply to provide "atmosphere" for the pet hospital is downright cruel.

I know it's probably because it was really designed to benefit those playing as a vet, so as to provide patients for them to cure. But I don't understand why they can't distinguish between the two situations--when you go to the hospital to have a baby, it's not like you run into dozens of other pregnant and sick patients. Those only show up when playing in the doctor career--why can't his be the same?

At any rate, there at least needs to be a way to make it so that no one is sick when I first log in to play a household--or at least have a way to cure them at home, without the veterinary skill, so that new sick pets aren't generated. Medicine you can order, a way to call the vet for housecalls--heck, I'd even take a cheat at this point, this is so exhausting. I've never rage quit the sims from something actually in the game, but I'm close with this one. I need something to enable me to keep playing--a cheat, a mod, a patch, ANYTHING. There's a mod that makes it so NPC pets don't wander around sick and hungry and stinky, but it doesn't help the pet hospital patient issue. As is, the only "solution" would be...to just not cure the pets. Have them stay sick forever, until they die of old age, because otherwise if I try to get them cured, that's just condemning other cats and dogs to be sick. Over and over again.

I started this post the other day, but I was so angry I decided to sleep on it to try and phrase things more civilly, but I really need the people making the game to understand how deeply upsetting this is to me. Please, please, please, I am begging someone to do something about this.

Thank you.

LiELF
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
"FanPhoria;d-943716" wrote:
I log into a household I haven't played in a while with pets. There is always at least one pet sick, and with more than one pet sometimes more than one, or even ALL of them. I take them to the vet. With more than one pet, since you can't check in more than one pet at a time, this is often an all day affair as I cycle through different appointments. As I wait, I see the other households I play who have pets coming into the pet hospital with sick pets--something the game generates in order to provide "patients" for the hospital. And I know that even tho I see them complete their appointment, when I log into their household, the pets will still be sick. And I'll have to take them to the vet. And the whole thing will start all over again.

This is my hell. My purgatory. Despite how much I love having cats and and dogs in my game, this pushes me to the point where I wish I'd never bought it. It's not only frustrating, it's emotionally draining--I love this furry little bundles of pixels, and seeing them sick all the time is awful. No pet actually gets sick this much unless there's something seriously wrong with them. Programming them to be constantly be coming down with things, simply to provide "atmosphere" for the pet hospital is downright cruel.

I know it's probably because it was really designed to benefit those playing as a vet, so as to provide patients for them to cure. But I don't understand why they can't distinguish between the two situations--when you go to the hospital to have a baby, it's not like you run into dozens of other pregnant and sick patients. Those only show up when playing in the doctor career--why can't his be the same?

At any rate, there at least needs to be a way to make it so that no one is sick when I first log in to play a household--or at least have a way to cure them at home, without the veterinary skill, so that new sick pets aren't generated. Medicine you can order, a way to call the vet for housecalls--heck, I'd even take a cheat at this point, this is so exhausting. I've never rage quit the sims from something actually in the game, but I'm close with this one. I need something to enable me to keep playing--a cheat, a mod, a patch, ANYTHING. There's a mod that makes it so NPC pets don't wander around sick and hungry and stinky, but it doesn't help the pet hospital patient issue. As is, the only "solution" would be...to just not cure the pets. Have them stay sick forever, until they die of old age, because otherwise if I try to get them cured, that's just condemning other cats and dogs to be sick. Over and over again.

I started this post the other day, but I was so angry I decided to sleep on it to try and phrase things more civilly, but I really need the people making the game to understand how deeply upsetting this is to me. Please, please, please, I am begging someone to do something about this.

Thank you.

I'm with you on this. I recently logged into a household to find my most recently adopted stray being violently ill with a bad case of fleas. My Sim, who was a vet, took the cat to the hospital for surgery. The cat was fine. They returned home and suddenly the cat got stuck in a puking loop over and over and accumulated such a horrible mess that I adopted her out to get rid of her because the household was unplayable and the cat wasn't registering as sick anymore.

Now this was obviously a bug, but the excessive illness of pets was something I was concerned about before the release of Cats ans Dogs and now it's proven why. This pack should focus on the actual animals as pets first, then the veterinary career second. But these illnesses are an invasive priority and I'd really like to see them tuned down to a much rarer occurrence, or reworked to be something that's only active on the currently played household and random townies. We shouldn't get surprise sicknesses when rotating to the next played household.
Evie0602
7 years ago
Have you tried using the wellness treats? You don't even have to go to the vet to get them. You can download a room off the gallery that has lots of wellness treats in it and place it in your house. Then you feed one to your pet and they should be cured.
OneGrilledChees
7 years ago
I don't play roationally, but the last two times I went to the vet, I waited for hours after checking in and my pet still hadn't been treated, so I just bought the wellness treat from vending machine and went home to treat the pets myself that way. So stocking up on treats, putting the vet vending meaching somewhere other than the vet's office, might be a solution.

ETA: seems I was too slow typing out my response and two people beat me to it!
krunji
7 years ago
I'm having the same issue. Next to strays walking around in an awful condition, this is just heartbreaking.

Maybe I'm weak and sensitive but it's really pulling on my heartstrings that pets get sick so often. Makes me feel like a bad owner. And when it's someone else's pets it's just infuriating as I cannot do anything with it.

Pets in this EP don't seem to be much more than accessories for those who want to play around with vet clinics.
burnished_dragon
New Spectator
7 years ago
I noticed this too. Everyone of my rotations have had to take the poor pet to the clinic. A few multiple times. A sim cannot wander around Brindlton it's too heartbreaking all the sick strays. It has to stop!
Hermitgirl
New Spectator
7 years ago
I can see where this could be a real issue. I don't have saves where multiple families have pets and I'm glad. I do enjoy them but the first thing I do is give them a bath and sometimes take them to the vet. I do load those families up on wellness treats also. I don't know what can be done about because personally I wouldn't want a mod that takes that away the need to bathe and sickness completely. I do kind of wish your pet would start off clean when you rotated to them though.
Rambley_Raccoon
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
I think the sicknesses need to be toned down-constantly seeing sick pets/having your pets be sick is just annoying. I tend to see sick pets running around every time I go to Brindleton Bay,and that's just ridiculous! Pets shouldn't be constantly be getting sick every single day....EA needs to fix this.
Solariatigres
7 years ago
I dont see that many sick pets really, but I dont play Brindleton Bay and I am loving the pets in this ep...my one problem is that my pets get sick alot if you have one of the big bushes on the lot, the ones you can also use for wohoo, like my pets would go into them and fight something, get bitten by squirrel and get sick every two minutes, or sprayed by a skunk, I just sold the bushes and that solved
AlbaWaterhouse
7 years ago
I was having the same issue until I decided to load my Sims inventories with the wellness treat for pets. Anytime I revisit a household with pets and there's a sick(s) pet(s) I give them the treat and voilà! No more trips to the vet.
But yeah, it is really annoying. Even giving the treat is annoying since they need to spend the simoleons on that and I also don't like seeing my households' pets sick and dirty all the time.
johannforsims
7 years ago
I use littlemisssams no more sick pets mod. All my frustrations ended. But this needs to be fixed for real.