Successful breeding of Pets?

"alan650111;c-16153385" wrote:

"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

Wow, I'm impressed. I've yet to even see a raccoon in the game, let alone make pets of them. :open_mouth: Be carefully, in RL they're not the friendliest of animals.

"GalacticGal;c-16179488" wrote:

"alan650111;c-16153385" wrote:

"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

Wow, I'm impressed. I've yet to even see a raccoon in the game, let alone make pets of them. :open_mouth: Be carefully, in RL they're not the friendliest of animals.

You can make the raccoon right in CAS so I ended up making 2. They are so adorable and I love that they have their own voice because when I play them I don't feel like they are a cat even if they have same animations.

Also having breeding issues, though I think my problem is due to the fact my cats don't like each other. Some of you said to use the 'be nice to' option but I can't find it when clicking on either cat. Where is this option?

I feel like they made it too hard for animals to get pregnant or maybe this is a bug? Someone on this thread said they had to try 20 times, in my opinion that is a bit much. Is it this hard in real life lol? I assume not?

Has anyone with the "MC Command Center" mod have a successful birth? I'm wondering if that is preventing it.

Does anybody know if your dog/cat can breed with a stray? Or is it by design that only pets living in the same houshold can do it?

"Moderator_Gagea;c-16184319" wrote:
Does anybody know if your dog/cat can breed with a stray? Or is it by design that only pets living in the same houshold can do it?

My dog was able to breed with a stray...now I am waiting if she is pregnant or not...but the breeding part was successful.

That's great. So I'll have my dog tray again. ;)

My household had a sim couple and two dogs each, so four dogs. Two small dogs grew up together with one of the sims, the other two dogs grew up together with the other sim, until the human sims got married and moved in together. That sort of formed dog-couples already, the two small dogs are very friendly toward each other and have licked each other's faces since the time they're pupsters, and the two big dogs are clearly friends, too.

There' s a male and a female in both dog couples, and I never had them fixed, so you can imagine it's been quite a heat-circus occasionally. I never encouraged them to mate, but let them do and live and love as they liked, also to test how it works. I've played the family for a long time now and I'm sure there's easily been over ten heats per dog and a lot of doggie-woohoo (the encourage option greys out when they've successfully mated, that's how I know they actually do it even if I don't happen to look when the hearts are flying), and not once did they get pregnant from that.

After their owners got a baby though I decided that it's time for the human baby to have her own doggie friend to grow up with, so I started encouraging them to mate whenever they were in heat. I didn't encourage them at any other time, feels too forceful, but when they were in heat, I encouraged them to mate with the one I knew they were friends with anyway.

First heat went past without pregnancy, but with the second heat my little doggie got pregnant. I was very worried after seeing many threads about breeding problems, but everything went smoothly: I noticed she was successfully pregnant immediately after because the puppy is my eighth household member, so all the encourage and other matings got instantly greyed out long before I got the actual game announcement about her being pregnant. It took about one sim-day before she went to labor, and then the pupster just appeared.

There's always those growling and picture-slashed-over thought bubbles during heat, but with the non-desired partner dogs. When not in heat, they all get along perfectly fine.

Also I think that the successful pregnant couple is better friends with each other than the other two, probably because I played them more when they were pupsters and growing up together. Now they're being adorable and licking their pupster's face too, 'n playing with him.

All of this just to give another 'this is how it went with me, and how long it took' description into the mix.

I haven't installed the game yet, but I recall with TS2 Pets, it could take days before the pets would even attempt mating, because their friendship needed to be high enough (much like Sims and whoohoo). It seems like a huge issue with C&D is that you can't view the pets' panels to see if that is in fact the problem.

The disappearing puppies/kittens thing is disturbing. I hope that issue gets fixed.

And I keep using NuzzleNip --- she does look like she tries to mate but never gets pregnant anymore