Whether my sims take the dog for a long walk or a short walk, they stay walking until I cancel the interaction. All of their moods turn red. The dog starves. But they don't come home. PC via Steam, all worlds, with and without mods.
Edit By Crinrict: Added missing pack tag to title.
Dog walking has been glitchy for a very, very long time. Some worlds/neighborhoods are better than others. Windenburg is the worst.
Sometimes the problem is the walk becomes an endless loop until the player cancels it. Or has to resets their Sim.
Sometimes the Sim or the dog or both get stuck at one of the waypoints. Sometimes this is resolved by the Sim or the dog suddenly levitating to the other or to a further waypoint. Sometimes this "fixes" itself when they both reset and the action is canceled. Sometime the player has to reset their Sim. Which resets the dog. Then they can both go home and contemplate life in a Simulation.
Walking with a dog on any of the walking paths in SE, GrT or LS is just broken. The dog gets stuck at the first waypoint and the Sim goes on without them, but behaves as if they're still walking their dog. When they get to the end of the walk the dog either levitates to the Sim or they have to be unleashed or reset.
I say "sometimes" because "sometimes" - except for the walking paths - going for a walk with your dog works just fine. When it works as intended, it's one of my favorite activities. When we get new worlds, one of the first things I do in my test game is take a dog for a walk. It's can be a nice way to explore. Or not.
I'm a 100 years old and so is my dog, but we still enjoy our walks. I wish my Sims could also enjoy walking their dogs. 🙂🐶 Alas, this issue never gets much attention.
I have also had this happening for quite a while. I play on PC, no mods, no CC. And trying to reset them is difficult and doesn't always work. And the dog is usually blocks and blocks away from the sim on the leash.
I've had this issue for months (PC/EA app/no mods) I usually have to reset them to make them work. I also have the issue where the pet is on an infinite leash, human sim will be across the neighborhood and the pet is still at home in the living room on leash but not moving. Walking pets is very broken.
I play with mods so take this with a grain of salt without any non-modded reports of the same issue, but for me, I notice the dog gets really far off path but the sim stays stuck. Last time it happened was in Henford. It almost seems to be related to the lakes / water spots?
Yes this has been happening for a while, maybe a year or so? They will just continue on until you stop them. They won't come home and often also leave the dog somewhere. They also don't respond when I tell them to have the dog do it's business somewhere, they just stand there
I have this issue too and this issue is not a cause from the recent September update, it has been existing for a while ago. sim and pet went for a short walk but stop at a random point and remained standing at that point for a long time and then proceed to another random point and continue to stand there for a long period of time too, afterwards, sim and pet proceed to return home. Entire walking session for a short walk lasted 10mins in real time, it is way too long for a short walk. I hope this will get fix soon.
Oh this bug sucks when it happens. I usually have to reset the sim
I never use the walk interactions - they’re way too long. Even short walk if not cancelled will go until either the sim or dog crashes from low needs. I only ever use the go for jog, or get an independent dog that can walk itself. Mostly I just stick to cats.
I get this too on PS5. Recently it's been ok if you give your SIM a task at the home in their queue though. But if you don't they just leave for ages until both dog and sim are miserable.
It's like the SIM forgets it doesn't have to do it all day
