Why can't kids walk the dogs?

"@drake_mccarty;c-16220989" wrote:

"jackjack_k;c-16220817" wrote:

"@Bluebeard45;c-16215668" wrote:
Excellent point. EA can not think outside the box. All about the money.

"@agustd;c-16220053" wrote:
Laziness with making animations again, I assume.

No logical reason why children wouldn't be able to walk dogs.

I think it’s just an oversight. There’s no animations needed to add this for Kids.

There was a gif of a Child walking the dog on Twitter by The Sims team.

I assume it was planned but forgotten more than a case of “laziness” or “can’t do”.

It happens I guess.

Please find this gif. I haven’t seen it, and I even looked for it. You’ve brought it up more than once so please share what you’re talking about. I find it incredibly hard to believe they made kids able to walk dogs, but forgot about including it and not fixing that ASAP. It’s more likely a case of laziness, and a bad company vision mixed with budget constraints.

Go through the Sims Twitter. You can toggle via media. I have bad internet and it would take me hours to load them all. All that was missing was a leash. So a small FX leash can’t be that hard to add.

“Bad company vision” and budget don’t really come into it. It’s like how EA let adults build Sandcastles in TS3 but Toddlers can’t do anything. Which is really weird. The adult animations are also Toddler like and it’s creepy.

It just happens. It’s probably just a simple oversight. Straight and simple.

I doubt they said “on no we don’t WANT kids to walk dogs” or “we can’t afford it”. All the tech is there.

Is it this one?
https://twitter.com/TheSims/status/920786745968418816

Because they're just walking side-by-side without a leash here. And it seems like the GIF is just staged to make it look like the kid is walking the dog.

I think you are correct, this is just staged, but then, they do that a lot to promote something. Anything for a sale.

Mylita

It would be nice. That could allow kids to develop more responsibility.

I found a mod last night that lets kids walk dogs. It was created by LittleMsSam.

@jackjack_k What's the mod? Been looking for one.

"@Zeldaboy180;c-16243124" wrote:
@jackjack_k What's the mod? Been looking for one.

http://littlemssam.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/LittleMsSam_KidsGoForAWalkDogs.zip

It still has the stretch glitch, because I’m guessing they only fixed glitches for what’s in the game.

:)

I did not even think of that, it would be a nice addition to have kids be able to walk dogs :D

"jackjack_k;c-16243127" wrote:

"@Zeldaboy180;c-16243124" wrote:
@jackjack_k What's the mod? Been looking for one.

http://littlemssam.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/LittleMsSam_KidsGoForAWalkDogs.zip

It still has the stretch glitch, because I’m guessing they only fixed glitches for what’s in the game.

:)

Thanks! I tried the mod out and they only stretch a bit while putting the leash on. The leash is also positioned a little off from their fingers, but otherwise looks fine.

I also noticed that when my kid walked her dog, her responsibility went up. Maybe they were planning to let kids walk dogs at one point because of that bit of programming that would never get triggered otherwise.

they should be able to walk the dog and gain responsibility. It should have been an option for a kid to request a pet and then be responsible for it that would have been cool