Successful breeding of Pets?

"KJB;c-16153513" wrote:
I tried getting my cat to mate with different strays on the lot. I think Ive tried 4 different cats, a few times each. Still nothing. I wanted to adopt another cat to make it happen, but they're all neutered.

@kjb - you can go to the vet and have them un-neutered, so they will be fine again :) You can also adopt strays at no cost.

Just a guess, but I think the 'be nice to' interaction is really not working, so there's no way (except the mod described above) to work on dogs' relationships except hanging out with them a lot and hoping for best. It's also clear that the dogs need some level of acquaintance, maybe even friendship, before mating, so that's a deadlock in many situations.

If you have your heart set on breeding, I'd recommend creating the intended breeding couple together with their owner, maybe even as puppies and let them grow up together to maximize their friendship.

One time mating, boy and girl pup.

I tried to breed my dogs more than 20 times and could not get puppies. I finally shift clicked both dogs and hit reset. The first time after that my dog is expecting.

I am having an issue with my dogs having puppies. I can get them to mate fine, and receive the notifications fine, but once I get the notification of my dog going into labor, nothing happens. She just walks around panting all of the time, never sleeps, and is always uncomfortable. I waited a week (sims time) for puppies to arrive after going into labor, and still nothing. When I tried to breed her again, the option is grayed out saying she is already pregnant. In my saved game icon, she is all crazy looking. I have tried this with dogs I create in CAS, and stray dogs I adopt in game - same thing happens. I have no mods or cc. I thought bugs were fixed in the last patch in December, but it seems my game has become worse since. PLEASE ADVISE!

I know your pain. I had my foxes mate about 15 times and they had one pup, I tried again and in two tries my female fox got pregnant! Then my game crashed.

Ha, my family got 2 cats that I wanted to breed. I noticed there were floating hearts occasionally, and my sims befriended them because I thought it might be required to have a good relation to being able to tell them to breed. That option never appeared, though. Then there was a cat fight, and the female cat ran away for a few days. I thought it would be extremely hard to have kittens, especially without giving the cats the best traits for breeding.

Then female cat returned, cats did not share floating hearts, and I thought I would need to build their relation again. Without controlling them, it's pretty hard to affect the animals. No matter what I did, they hardly paid interest in each other, and it did not help that my sims kept petting and talking to raise relations. No "Breed" option.

Then, suddenly one day, I was focusing on the male cat somewhere in the house, there was a popup saying that the female cat was giving birth!!! I found her outside the house, and the cat was a tuxedo cat, she had obviously bred with the Mayor stray cat without my knowledge! Argh, all that hard work for no good...

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

That's a long time!

I had both my cats mate, it took 3 tries and then i gave up and later on a kitten was born.

I've come to the conclusion that you just have to move the pet into the household. First try and I got the hearts around their heads rather than their face in a bubble crossed out. Tad annoying because I feel bad kicking the cat out after :(