Successful breeding of Pets?

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 :(

> @SoulGal7 said:
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> 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.
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> @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.

How do you know when your animal is pregnant? And how long does it take for the kittens/puppies to be born? And what is the maximum kittens/puppies cat/dogs can have at one time?

> @kayfay8 said:
> 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 :(

I will try that then!