Successful breeding of Pets?

Took about 10 times to mate ..and then I had two male pups:)

"ChambersN;c-16153376" wrote:
Took about 10 times to mate ..and then I had two male pups:)

Wow 10 times?! Hopefully it doesn't take me that long. Now my female raccoon Asparagus ran away! So the wait is prolonged yet again! GRR Haha

It took me about 5 times to get my female dog pregnant.

I had two dogs for about 3 sim days; I think it helps if the female dog is noticeably in heat (with hearts and two dogs in a thought bubble over her head). When my dog was in heat, it only took one time for her to get pregnant and have 3 puppies! I've only tried it once so I don't know if it's an anomaly or not that it worked so quickly.

"alan650111;c-16153374" wrote:


Yes my aging is on. Do you know how long it takes until their pregnancy shows after mating?

After mating, I got a pop-up that said wait 1 day or so in order to see if she is pregnant.

I don't know how to get my pets to breed. I've tried with two different families. I asked the pets to mate at least 40-50 times each and even if they did mate, it never resulted in a pregnancy.

Yesterday, I tried with my pit bulls about 5 times and it didn't work. Today, I tried 2 times with my chihuahuas and it worked the second time, I even got a notification saying that "Kiss" was expecting !

"simsaholic77;c-16154664" wrote:
I don't know how to get my pets to breed. I've tried with two different families. I asked the pets to mate at least 40-50 times each and even if they did mate, it never resulted in a pregnancy.

If they don't mate it's because there relationship isn't high enough or the don't like one another.

I'm having a hard time with this as well. I'm trying to get my cat to mate with a stray that lives by the docks.
I know the cats have to have a high relationshiop but how can you do that when they aren't controllable? My Sim doesn't have the option to "encourage them to be nice to each other"....just encourage to mate. Any help would be great!

"ZhaguiSimmer;c-16153748" wrote:
I tried almost 20 times, literately, and nothing is happening. Idk how this works out with strays...

Yeah tell me about it. Ive been trying to get my cat to mate with literally ANY stray, but it just won't work. I'd rather not use the household slots and add another opposite gender cat just to get them to mate. Idk how else to build those relationships up when they aren't controllable. Kind of frustrated that its *this* difficult. Legit spent the last 2 real time hours trying to get any sort of results.