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JesLet40
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
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[FR] [CoL] Farm Animals in Rental Neighbours' homes run away

In my current save I have a residental rental that also works as a horse ranch/farm. The family that owns the ranch also owns the the animals and then rent out some rooms to relatives of theirs. Now as ranchers, they are very careful to care for their animals. Every animal on the farm is cleaned, fed and taken care of. They have a ranch hand who also helps with this. 

Yet, whenever I switch families to play the one renting rooms at the ranch, all farm animals instantly appear dirty and I get popups saying they're unhappy and will leave unless they are cared for. Switching back those same animals are now clean and happy again. I can only assume this is because the tenant-family has never cleaned the animal themselves, but as they don' t own them they aren't even able to. Which is why I think this is a bug. As the animals are cared for by their owners, they ought to show up as well cared for when I switch to the tenants too. 

This is what I see whenever I switch to the tenant family.
  • What do I see: Dirty, unhappy, neglected animals. 
  • What do I expect to see: Clean, happy, well cared for animals
  • Reason: Lack of cross-pack combability between Cottage living, horse ranch and for rent.
  • Possible solutions: Let sims who are not owners clean and care for animals, or make sure the animals stay clean and healthy when families are switched. 

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title fit bug report at AHQ

9 Comments

  • JesLet40's avatar
    JesLet40
    Seasoned Ace
    4 months ago

    I did not see your link until today, but the animals in my case hasn't run away they're just dirty, hungry and neglected. I guess if I kept playing long enough they'd run away, but the problem is that they're not cared for - even when they are. 

  • I have the same issue, although the animals ends up not being owned by any of the households in the residential rental after switching household/ traveling as the landlord (that lives in one of the units) to the other units.

    My landlord sim had a cow and a few chicken and it was working fine. Then at one point, I don't know if it was the first time I switched or traveled to one of the tenants that triggered it, or if a couple of times were needed.
    But the cow ended up very dirty when I got back to my landlord sim at one point and I noticed I could not feed, clean or milk her because I did not own her anymore. None of the other households owned her either (I switched to them to check after I got several notifications of my neglect because I could not care for the cow.) At one point she just moved because of neglect.

    The chickens I could still care for even though they were not owned by anyone either anymore, the issue I had with them (and still do) is that they threaten to leave, but they never do. I guess because I can actually still care for them even if I don't own them anymore, compared to the cow.

    I ended up deleting the coop hoping they would move because they don't have a coop like the notification threaten they will, but they never did. So I had unhappy baby chicks and a rooster walking around the yard. 

    I bought another coop some sim days later, and I could now sell the chicks, but not the rooster. So I deleted the coop again. 
    So now I only have one rooster left, but he has been standing on the same tile for the last few sim days (week?). He won't move and since I don't own him I can't trade/ sell him... You also can't delete him in build mode. He is not frozen or anything, just won't move around

  • NennaRC's avatar
    NennaRC
    Rising Hotshot
    2 months ago

    I have the same problem. Did this issue get a solution? Animals are not taken care of by the owner of the same while playing a tenant partition of a residential rental lot. The link to another post about this further down in this thread doesn't work.

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