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Ghost-Phantom
Rising Traveler
4 days ago
Status:
Under Investigation

[CD] [HR] Disappearances of Pets and Horses in Premade Households

When starting a new game with update 1.117.227.1030 (PC) and visiting the worlds of Chestnut Ridge and Brindleton Bay, all households with pets or horses will lose their animals — only Sims will remain. Mayor Whiskers and Captain Whitaker will also disappear.
On the Manage Households screen, images of the missing animals will remain for a while. However, if you go to Chestnut Ridge or Brindleton Bay and hover over their house, the animals will disappear.
However, if you load a family with animals from the gallery, save the game, and then reload it, the animals will remain in the household. I tested this with the Life is Golden family their dog Lulu remained in place.

Beforehand, I deleted the Sims 4 folder from Documents, repaired the game through the EA app, and started a new game.

17 Comments

  • I have the same issue....I hope we can find a solution. 

  • DarkMirageX's avatar
    DarkMirageX
    Seasoned Newcomer
    2 days ago

    I had the same results. Tested with mods/cc and without in a clean save. No animals are spawning with or without mods/cc in a new clean save.  Previous saves seem to be fine. 

  • Agmolly210's avatar
    Agmolly210
    Rising Traveler
    2 days ago

    I haven’t checked to see if this is happening in my game yet but I plan on checking tonight after I get home from a birthday party.

  • Every Family in Brindleton Bay who start with pets, the Hecking, Lnx and Delgato families the pets no longer appearing in the house menu or playing in game and Mayor Whiskers and Whittaker are not in the manange household menu, but the strays around the world are appearing when playing in the world. This happening to Chestnut ridge with the townie horses aswell, all pre-made horses in households are not appearing either.

    I have removed mods, repaired the game and also uninstalled and reinstalled the game and nothing has worked.

  • Believe4life's avatar
    Believe4life
    Seasoned Spectator
    2 days ago

    Same thing has happened in my game (brand new save created yesterday after the update) I went to manage worlds fixed the neighbourhood settings and all the animals, were visible, this morning after seeing the bug report I've checked and all animals have vanished - Lynx, Delgato, Hecking, Gooseman, The Grove Family, & Sienna & Flapjack, Major Whiskers & Captain Whitaker all gone.

  • d0xers's avatar
    d0xers
    New Spectator
    8 hours ago

    I am also experiencing this issue with new saves created after the August 19th update.  I tried repairing my game and removing all custom content/mods, but fortunately(?) found this report before I un/re-installing.