Successful breeding of Pets?

"lilypadmeulin;c-16397195" wrote:
So I just need to keep an eye out for a notification?

it takes about 1 sim day to get the notification but if there pregnant it will say when you click encourage to breed with "pet already pregnant" little tip even if they don't have harts when they nuzzle the female can get pregnant. What I do in my game is invite the male cat over from time to time. My female cat got pregnant a 2nd time because of this.

Waking up an old thread just to nutshell some of these things. Recently I've been playing a family with a female dog and I've wanted her to have a puppy by another family's dog, so every time she was in heat, we visited them and encouraged her to mate with that dog, and although mating definitely happened, no pregnancies. This was easily ten times.

Then I moved the girl dog into the boy dog's household temporarily and found out that if she's not in heat, no matter how much she mates, she won't get pregnant. But once she was, it took just two attempts for her to get pregnant, after which I could move her back to her own household to have the puppy.

Nutshell: the dog has to be in heat (aka howling hearts all around) before pregnancy is possible, no point in trying to encourage them to mate before that. They'll do it, but there's no puppies. It's like woohoo vs. try for baby. The dogs also have to be in the same household, but it's perfectly possible to send one dog to another household for a brief visit, then bring the dog back, all through the Manage Household function.

Wanted to share this late revelation, since I'm sure there's others who want to have puplets without having both parent doggies in the household.

http://i.gyazo.com/e2761bcf3b8d0b07b6ad1141ef13ee09.png
Bonus picture of the result puplet with exhausted mom sleeping in the background.

Lol, I've tried 4 times with my dog and it still never worked! Even adopted another dog to see if they would breed, and nada /: let me know if you find a method that works because I gave up!

Thanks for sharing @Lumiasta .

I really think it's too hard to have puppies/kittens outside Brindleton Bay. There my kitten got preggy on its own, probably by wandering out and about at night. I had no idea who the dad was, until I saw the kitten, and knew what stray she had m,ated with.

In other worlds, there are no strays, but I was hoping it would be possible to take a ready pet to a community lot tagged as pet friendly. It would feel more natural than to move pets temporarily to other houses.

Does the female grow out of going into heat? My dog was in heat so I added a male dog to our household but since then she hasn't gone into heat.. do I need to age them down?

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