Successful breeding of Pets?

"Banditized;c-16157784" wrote:
I'm trying to breed my two dogs. The female is in heat, she's howling with hearts all the time. I encourage the male to mate with her but when they get face to face they growl and in their thought bubbles they have the other dog's face crossed out. But then the female walks away and keeps howling and blowing hearts. They keep doing the growling thing over and over and over again, I don't know what to do

This sounds like they dislike each other to be honest. There must be requirements of certain relationships for them to breed. What traits do they each have?

> @Urbiezira1995 said:
> My dog cannot be nice to anyone, not other dogs or other sims. My dog never interacts with any other dog, and when I encourage her to breed, there's always the growling. It's pretty game-breaking, since I cannot get her pregnant for the life of me...

i have the same problem. im thinking maybe one of my dog is little and the other one is big?
they dont like each other at all.

The problem with me is I have a fat chow chow, so her head takes up the entire signet thingy at the bottom, so it's impossible to know her emotions, also, when I tried, the male husky I have, showed a thought bubble that viewed Panda Bear (the name of the chow) in a negative way

i haven't tried breeding yet. however anyone know how long before an adult cat goes into heat? i only play with the cat family for about a sim week. so maybe i'm not there long enough for her to go in heat... oh wait she was adopted. maybe she's spayed. ok i'll check on that. however with that being said. how often does a cat or dog go into heat?

It's never worked in game for me unfortunately. The problem in my game is that the "be nice to" interaction doesn't work (the animal doesn't do anything/doesn't interact with the animal I told them to be nice to) - so my dog can't build a friendship up with another dog in order for them to want to breed when I ask them to.

My sim is friends with all the dogs I try to get her own dog to mate with, I've tried when she's in heat and when she's not, I've trapped the dogs together and kept them happy for several sim days and they still just refuse to interact and dislike each other too much to want to breed. I have no mods or CC, I've repaired my game and I've deleted cache files.

Is there another sign that you can tell that the female cat is in heat? I have asked my 2 cats several times "encourage to mate", half the time the hearts are above. But I think I've asked them at least 15 times and nothing. How do I know if they like each other? Anyone have any tips?

> @Forfjor said:
> It's never worked in game for me unfortunately. The problem in my game is that the "be nice to" interaction doesn't work (the animal doesn't do anything/doesn't interact with the animal I told them to be nice to) - so my dog can't build a friendship up with another dog in order for them to want to breed when I ask them to.
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> My sim is friends with all the dogs I try to get her own dog to mate with, I've tried when she's in heat and when she's not, I've trapped the dogs together and kept them happy for several sim days and they still just refuse to interact and dislike each other too much to want to breed. I have no mods or CC, I've repaired my game and I've deleted cache files.

I have the same issue! My dogs just ignore me, and so when I ask them to breed, they just growl. It's annoying.

"alan650111;c-16158101" wrote:

"Banditized;c-16157784" wrote:
I'm trying to breed my two dogs. The female is in heat, she's howling with hearts all the time. I encourage the male to mate with her but when they get face to face they growl and in their thought bubbles they have the other dog's face crossed out. But then the female walks away and keeps howling and blowing hearts. They keep doing the growling thing over and over and over again, I don't know what to do

This sounds like they dislike each other to be honest. There must be requirements of certain relationships for them to breed. What traits do they each have?

The female is stubborn, jumpy, and playful. The male is loyal, curious, and a hunter. I keep selecting for the male to be nice to the female but nothing happens

It worked for me the first time with my dogs but my cats still havn't gotten kittens yet and I don't know why, they mate but it doesn't seem like she ever gets pregnant. I've tried like 20 times but it doesn't work. Now 2 of my cats have mated on their own without me telling them to do so, so hopefully they will have kittens now.

I'm trying to figure out the weird bias my dogs seem to have for eachother. the male dogs and female dogs don't seem interested in eachother, yet they defiantly seem in heat (they use the heart idle almost every second :lol: ).

But even when I try to get them to be nice to one another, it's like they just ignore my sim or when they do, it ends in a really bad interaction. Though what I also notice is, the female dogs and male dogs were from separate households. I tried with cats in the same household and it worked perfectly.

So now I'm wondering, do pets have to be in the same household to successfully mate?