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When we get pets, what accessories and traits do we want to see?
Emily13SimsFan
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I'm assuming we are going to get pets. I'd like to see colourful leads, more options for ways for the pets to walk and jump onto different things. Buildings and special places for pets. What do you guys think?
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I think it would be neat if there were pet-friendly and not pet-friendly places, like maybe if you put a sign on the lot that would designate the lot as one or the other. That way you could build restaurants where pets were allowed, or make dog parks, or those neat cat cafes. In addition, if you had a high end location where pets were not welcome, you could set that feature as well to give your world more variety.
I liked how the horses in sims 3 could do jumping courses and stuff. It might be neat to put in an agility course for dogs and maybe add in a competitive aspect to that.
Dog/cat doors that can be placed in walls and new doors that have pet access considered.
A bunch of pillows, beds, doghouses, cat trees, toys. I would also like shelves/tunnels type items to allow the pets (cats especially) to have more mobility through the house.
I'd like it if the pet creation screen had similarly numerous options to CAS. If they keep the dragging/molding aspect for pets, that could create some really interesting creatures. I would also like to see a variety of traits for rambunctious animals or mellow animals, or animals that are more prissy and tend to stay out of mud/dirt and keep their hygiene up longer.
There are just so many options and so many possibilities!
I'd also like to see birds, that arent like the gold fish, where they are just bought & stuck in some corner & forever ignored bc theres no interactions. Having more options like having a low maintenance bird or one that's really smart & eager to learn things, like talking. Horses, that you can ride to work, or arrange a carriage ride for a special day or take your horse(s) with you when you go camping, or train for shows, etc.
Animals have personalities & having a bunch traits to choose from would be nice so you can make your pet as unique or generic as you'd like.
like does your dog get along with other animals? Maybe your dog likes cats & thinks he is one, yet doesnt like other dogs & the cat thinks the dog is dumb & needs to go away....you just really never know with animals lol
There is so much that can be done just with the animals themselves.
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as well as the normal pets like dogs cats birds hamsters mice bunnies and snakes also dolphins would be cool
I also think the addition of little costumes / sweaters for pets would be cool! I think that more intelligent / complex birds would be a great idea. In the Sims 3 I would always get birds but wouldn't ever interact because it was so boring / menial.
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For cats and dogs I would appreciate some accessories/outfits. Sparkly collars or chained ones, frilly ones or your standard one. Hats and bows would be adorable. Imagine putting your pets in little suits and bowties for a wedding! I want cat trees, doghouses (although I couldn't stand having a puppy sleep outside!), fluffy pillow beds and so many toys to spoil them with! Of course I want pets to have traits and personalities. Playful, friendly, rowdy, shy, loyal, expensive tastes, needy, etc. etc. I can't wait to see what they do with the animal genetics system (assuming we get one). I'd surely spend weeks messing around with pet breeding and giving every household a puppy and/or a kitten!
If we do get horses I think we'd be able to ride them but in certain places and/or in the little area around lots that you can walk around in where you sometimes see picnic benches, grills, and playsets. I'm not a horses fan, but I'd have some fun playing with them (and breeding them because I'm obsessed with genetics in this game)
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I like all of these!
I would love to see pet rabbits too, perhaps they could be "pet Sims."
I would also like to see romantic pet interactions besides trying for babies, like "romantic" nuzzling or grooming.
One idea: a curious cat could be able to jump into a bath or a pool, only to jump right out all mad unless it has a "likes water" trait, then it could swim or play in the bath. Also, cats that like water don't resist baths so much.
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All animals should have a lot of interactions in care, socializing and playing.
Children should have more special play interactions with pets, especially make-believe. It would be cute if children could play with their small pets as "apprentices" for their wizarding game, making the pet sit on a pile of books with a magic hat next to it, or have a tea-party with their pets.
There should be little playground objects for small animals besides their cages, as no pet should be caged up all the time.
Snakes can get a Skull object through which they slither around and nap in eye sockets etc. (Hehe my morbid wish)
Rodents can get a little circus playground with all sorts of mini tricks.
Frogs can get a little pond playground with lilypads for them to jump on.
Lizards can also use the skull object for snakes.
Birds should, as @adoriyah said, have different levels of maintenance.
Small birds like finches and budgies need less entertainment than parrots, as an example.
Smarter birds can be taught words and tunes, and will say these words when they see a sim, especially if they are excited to see a loved sim or dislike a sim. Sims will react accordingly. (Example: bird likes sim1 and says "love you". Sim1 gets "awwww" buff. Example: bird dislikes sim2 and insults him/her. Sim2 gets angry or sad buff)
Bird playgrounds include open bird trees (so birds can fly around the house) and a little tropical jungle playground with a small pond and fruit pieces.
More birdcages should also be available. I don't approve of putting birds in small cages in real life, but for the game, it would be useful to have smaller cages. The cages in TS3 were all so big that I usually barely had space for them.
I would like if small animals could travel with sims in a portable cage that can be dragged in and out of the inventory. That way, they will not get away when outside but can enjoy some fresh air without the sim having to constantly interact with it from the inventory.
According to a sim's traits, they will also like a certain type of small animal more. Evil sims like snakes, geeks like lizards, slobs like rodents, squeemish sims DON'T like frogs, genius sims like birds etc.
As for dogs and cats, little outfits would be ADORABLE. Bring on Christmas sweaters for Fluffy!
I think dogs and cats should also have more interactions with each other. In TS3, all you could really do, was sniff, hiss and breed. More play interactions should be available, as well as mishievous and "curious" interactions:
A curious interaction type includes things like nibble ears, poke tail, feel strange furr, investigate strange creature etc.
There should be a lot of sim-pet interactions as well, and multi-tasking allows for pets to sit on a sim's lap while the sim reads or watches TV.
Children should also have play interactions like tea-party and wizard apprentice with their cats and dogs, as well as options to "give make-over" which will give the pet ribbons, lipstick and painted nails etc.
Pets should be able to cause more mischief and play with common household objects.
Pets can scare sims, wake them up, attack them, climb onto them, pee on them, destroy furniture, leave a "present" on the floor or in a shoe, make noise and can topple their bowls over, creating a mess.
Singing along with the radio and TV is a favourite of mine, and with City Living, maybe sims and pets can sing together
I also want horses. Pets would obviously have to come with a country world, and this world would need large areas of public space for horses to ride around and so forth. Horses are definitely possible in TS4.
A vetinary career would also be amazing and something that the Sims franchice has not yet seen.
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Like the person above that said they'd like to have a raccoon as a pet, I'd love a fox.
Since we won't be able to roam around on horses, I hope they flesh out training and racing and such so that it doesn't feel like anything has been taken away from us in that regard.
I want to be able to buy certain parts for the mouse cage (like wheel, water bottle, bedding, and food bowl) just for some customization. Maybe add different types of cage types like the aquarium looking cage or a plastic one that looks very colorful.
Pet rats are trainable pets so I think we should be able to have rats run around the house (similar to cats and dogs and horses in Sims 3). I would love to be able to control a rat xD
Accessories can include hamster balls, rat mazes, ropes for climbing (mice and rats are very flexible), ladders, rodent houses, etc.
For rat needs, just the usual hygiene, bathroom, social, destruction / teeth (buying objects made for rodents to bite on), etc.
Be able to train rats to do certain small tasks.
Traits: Bitey (more likely to bite pet owner), hyperactive (will climb things more, go on wheel more, jump out of the cage more, etc.), clean (mice and rats clean themselves a lot, so this trait the mouse and rat will be more likely to move bedding around, clean other mice and rats more often, cage will get dirty less often, and will always strive to keep their hygiene up), fearful (tends to run away from owner, tends to hide more), etc.
- Would love to see a wide range of animals (Dogs, cats, horses, tortoise, Rabbits, Birds, ect
- would love a vets career, pet groomer business maybe?
- Animal lover added as a trait. Maybe add an Aspiration based off interacting and owning pets.
- Horse stable community lot. With rentable horses for all sims to use and other horses that are owned by a sim of your choice.
- Would love to see pet shows. where your animals are tested on how they look and act.
- Pet training like in other games but with stranger and funny tricks.
)Items would include the normal things like dog and cat beds, scratch posts. but also maybe pet agility courses, for your garden to train your dog. An outdoor fish pond with a bridge (for coy) little things like that
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