The cats won't breed and I WANT KITTENS!

"xosummerloverxo;d-937867" wrote:
I've been trying for days to get my household's cats, Juniper and Garrus, to breed but every time a thought bubble of Garrus with the 'ugh get away' thingy across his picture appears over Juniper's head and she bats him away. They're both adult, unneutered/unspayed cats. They were adopted a few days apart but I don't think that has anything to do with the problem. I know their 'relationship' level is probably to blame but I cannot figure out how to get them to interact with each other. The 'be nice to...' option isn't appearing for either of them and I want them to have kittens so badly! Anyone have any ideas of what the problem could be? Thanks :3

What is there traits? You can try certain catnip’s to get them in the mood to play together and breed though I’ve never tried this I suspect catnip to be intended for this.

With breeding mood and traits seem to have some part of this. I found lazy animals tend to not get along too well with the active ones during the encourage to beed social.

Also just to let you know if you “encouraged to breed with..” social to one of them and they do the bating paws together there are still a chance for the female to get pregnant the chances are just low.

If you happen to encourage to breed and you see a sad buff from it failing that means they did not try to breed eathier the cat didn’t listen to your sim or there mood is bad.

If you want your cats to interact keep them happy, fed, clean litter and make sure there not lonely from lack of social because they will try to get the sims attention all the time. If you keep them happy after a bit you find them interacting with other household pets.

Well I dunno if this has anything to do with getting pets to successfully breed, but I generally make sure my Sim has at least a "friend" rating with both pets and a "good friend" rating with at least 1 of the pets. My pets generally have no problem producing offspring.

"Cheekybits;c-16409748" wrote:

"xosummerloverxo;d-937867" wrote:
I've been trying for days to get my household's cats, Juniper and Garrus, to breed but every time a thought bubble of Garrus with the 'ugh get away' thingy across his picture appears over Juniper's head and she bats him away. They're both adult, unneutered/unspayed cats. They were adopted a few days apart but I don't think that has anything to do with the problem. I know their 'relationship' level is probably to blame but I cannot figure out how to get them to interact with each other. The 'be nice to...' option isn't appearing for either of them and I want them to have kittens so badly! Anyone have any ideas of what the problem could be? Thanks :3

What is there traits? You can try certain catnip’s to get them in the mood to play together and breed though I’ve never tried this I suspect catnip to be intended for this.

With breeding mood and traits seem to have some part of this. I found lazy animals tend to not get along too well with the active ones during the encourage to beed social.

Also just to let you know if you “encouraged to breed with..” social to one of them and they do the bating paws together there are still a chance for the female to get pregnant the chances are just low.

If you happen to encourage to breed and you see a sad buff from it failing that means they did not try to breed eathier the cat didn’t listen to your sim or there mood is bad.

If you want your cats to interact keep them happy, fed, clean litter and make sure there not lonely from lack of social because they will try to get the sims attention all the time. If you keep them happy after a bit you find them interacting with other household pets.

I can't think of their traits off the top of my head but I don't think they have any that would conflict with the other's.

Thanks so much for your advice! I'll definitely try all of your suggestions and let you know how it goes! :3

"LoriTSp;c-16409888" wrote:
Well I dunno if this has anything to do with getting pets to successfully breed, but I generally make sure my Sim has at least a "friend" rating with both pets and a "good friend" rating with at least 1 of the pets. My pets generally have no problem producing offspring.

Both of my Sims are good friends with both the cats but that doesn't seem to matter. Thanks for responding! :3

"xosummerloverxo;c-16410492" wrote:

"LoriTSp;c-16409888" wrote:
Well I dunno if this has anything to do with getting pets to successfully breed, but I generally make sure my Sim has at least a "friend" rating with both pets and a "good friend" rating with at least 1 of the pets. My pets generally have no problem producing offspring.

Both of my Sims are good friends with both the cats but that doesn't seem to matter. Thanks for responding! :3

You're very welcome. Sorry to hear that :( I do hope you find a way to successfully get kittens ... this is a bit out there & I'm not sure that you would want to try it but ... change 1 of your female cat's traits to Free Spirit; I've had several of my Sims' female cats produce kittens after their impromptu trips. I realize that your male cat wouldn't be the father, but at least you would get kittens.

Hmm... Try this.
1. Click on the computer and choose Order.
2. Choose to buy seeds.
3. Buy two packs of catnip seeds. Open both of the packs.
4. Give both of the cats Nuzzlenip treat by Give Catnip Treat interaction. This will make cats go into heat.
5. Cats, that are in heat, may mate automatically and sims who encourage them to mate will be more successful.

Just out of curiosity is one of the cats fixed? If you have a surgery machine on the lot you can click on it to see who is fixed and who isn't.

"BMSO;c-16416181" wrote:
Just out of curiosity is one of the cats fixed? If you have a surgery machine on the lot you can click on it to see who is fixed and who isn't.

It's showing that both the cats are unfixed. I'll double check though the next time I go in game.

Update: I'm about to give up on having kittens. I've tried getting them both in a good mood, they're good friends or higher with the Sims suggesting they breed, I tried giving them the nuzzlenip. Nothing has worked! Everything results in the female cat, Juniper, batting the male cat, Garrus, away and then the Sim who suggested they breed gets the sad moodlet that they we're unsuccessful in their encouragement. I've run out of ideas at this point :'(

"xosummerloverxo;c-16417030" wrote:
Update: I'm about to give up on having kittens.

If you really, really want kittens from these two cats, you can go into CAS/CAP and create kittens bred from their genetics. It's not ideal but at least you'd get the kittens that you want.