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PugLove888
Hero (Retired)
8 years ago

Re: my pets won't breed

@KaylaKat1996@StephS1984 , this is a known problem, so y'all aren't the only people having problems with breeding! 🤨 In addition to what @jpkarlsen stated, your female cat or dog has to be in heat for breeding to work.  They will have thoughts of flaming hearts and will appear to "sing" with little hearts floating away from them. ❤️

However, even if your pets have not been spayed or neutered, and you have plenty of room for more Sims (less than 8, like jpkarlsen said!), you still might have problems mating!  Usually your pet will be rejected by the potential mate. ☹️  And even when they do manage to actually mate, the momma pet might never go into labor, or it might say they are going into labor but nothing happens, or they will have a litter of pups or kittens, but even though you might pick out names for 3, none will be visible in-game unless you save, exit the game, and reenter -- and then you will probably only see one of the puppies or kittens!  😞 (Whew!) 😢  This seems to especially happen when trying to breed with a stray (or so I've been told.)

I'm sure they are working to fix this problem, but it is extremely frustrating! 😠

For now I'm just not attempting to breed my pets until they fix this! 🤭

If you want to try to work around this or get more information that what jpkarlsen & I have given you, then here is a thread on The Sims 4 forums that deals with this:

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/928960/cats-and-dogs-issues-with-breeding/p1

Rosemow is an extremely helpful person on the Sims 4 forums! 😇

Please feel free to reply back so we can know if either of you find some kind of work around! 

Best of luck and Happy Simming! 😉

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  • Snakeboy3's avatar
    Snakeboy3
    8 years ago

    i had no clue they could be in heat i thought it meant they liked another dog in the house that is very helpful as i thought  that they were just mating and not getting pregnant also my dog was i labour on fast speed for ages never gave birth and had the option to be encouraged to mate again please fix this

  • Shanadon's avatar
    Shanadon
    7 years ago

    I have 2 foxes...a male and a female. There is only them and 1 adult in the home. [plenty of room for more] The female is in heat, heart over her head with an image of two dogs/puppies? in the heart. The two foxes are not fixed and have a very solid relationship. Yet, there is no option for me to have them mate. I have checked with both under every category. No option. Also, no option for either to be nice to any other animal. Can someone please help me figure out how to fix this problem? Thank you so much in advance

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  • Daephene1's avatar
    Daephene1
    Seasoned Ace
    7 years ago

    I was unable to breed the cat I created in CAS because the "be nice to..." interaction never showed up for her. It never showed up for the adopted stray cat either. Encourage to breed shows up, but the attempt always fails because the cats don't like each other.  Is this a personality thing for cats or should I consider it a bug? The dog doesn't have this problem.

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