Sim families and their pets «123456...Next Go

AlexaKry

I´ve searched the boards, but it seems that there are no threads for showing off our beloved pets, so I thought I´ll start one!
Just show off your little fluffies!
Here are some of mine
Tyler with his best buddy T-Rey (Tyler is left! )

Tyler leading Rasta, his wife Stella leads T-Rey. T-Rey and Rasta have a "love relationship" as well

Tyler and T-Rey again, T-Rey is my avatar by the way

Tyler and his prize winning horse Franco

a sweet little puppy, Tyson, father is T-Rey, mum is Rasta

Tyler is carrying Streuner, the house cat, both waching T-Rey and his kids

Taius, son of Tyler and Stella sleeps and doesn´t know that a murder cat is next to him

Stella and Rasta play together

Tyler and his dad Travis and all of the dogs visit a park (I really have too much pets in the house, I think )

Haldir, Tyler´s dad, and Tyson, T-Reys son

Travis and the oldest dog Sissi

Tyler and Streuner

Just my main family with their "little" pack
edited: wrote some descriptions to the pictures

AlexaKry

And another one:
Taius and Tyson going for a walk

IreneSwift

Noah grooming Princess outside, while in the barn, Annie grooms her champion akhal-teke, Orion, Princess' sire, and Spencer grooms Belle, Annie's Clydesdale, Princess' dam.





The youngest member of the Gould family, animal-loving Eliza, goes out to see the horses as often as she can. Even as a toddler, she would go into the pasture to watch them running through the race training posts. She wants to be best friends with all of them.









Most days, Annie does all the care for her horses herself, after Spencer and the children leave for work and school. She's with Princess here.



Noah feeds Princess an apple.



Eliza will even go out at night to see the horses after supper.

...talking to Orion



...talking to Belle



Even when Eliza goes outside to make a snowman, she'll most often do it in the horses' pasture. Besides for this one in front of their watering trough, she also made two right in front of the barn door the horses use.



Before Noah was born, Annie and Spencer used to go for long horseback rides together every Saturday morning.







Annie and Orion just got home from winning two advanced racing competitions. They've won every race they've ever entered. They didn't start racing until they'd won many show jumping and cross country events, so they were both at level 10 of the skills before they entered their first race. Orion takes the lead early, and never lets go of it.

AlexaKry

@IreneSwift : you have very beautiful horses! And a lot of work with them! And I love the stallions´ name! Does it have a special meaning?

lisasc360

My SS giving Scout a hug after he aged up from a puppy...



Teaching Scout how to hunt...


Scout went over to sniff Nathan...


Scout giving Donny a kiss...


Donny brushing Scout...

AlexaKry

@lisasc360 : sweet dog! And this is funny, his thought bubbles are unique

Scout went over to sniff Nathan...
https://i.imgur.com/v2UTJ9pl.jpg

(sorry if I didn´t quote right, I don´t know how to do this properly)

AlexaKry

@lisasc360 : you have a sweet dog!
And the thought bubble when sniffing at the toddler is priceless!
Upps, didn´t recognize I´ve already posted, sorry!

jillbg

Taïga and her stray - Tramp!









Taïga and Rowan with Taïga's new puppy, Valkyria, and Minuit, the coven's cat.

thuggishsplicer

I've got two families in the save folder. Right now, only the Twinbrook one has pets, but I intend to add a cat or two to my Sunset Valley family.



This is Bailey. She was adopted and I changed her coat to something that would please me more. She looks like a dog my family used to have. She was taught hunting, so I'm looking forward to what she can find.



This is Kezune. Same as Bailey, but I didn't change his fur too much. He was adopted to socialize with Bailey since the family is too busy with two toddlers and can't give them all the love they need -they mostly make sure they have food. I hope the children can help the adults to keep the dogs clean and smart.

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Who has played "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion"? In the city of Chorrol there's a couple called the Bruiants. Their dogs are Bailey and Kezune; that's where I got the names for mine. Whenever I have horses, I like to have a "Swift Wind" and a "Wildfire".

lisasc360

AlexaKry wrote: »

@lisasc360 : you have a sweet dog!
And the thought bubble when sniffing at the toddler is priceless!
Upps, didn´t recognize I´ve already posted, sorry!

Thank you @AlexaKry...
hehehe, I thought it was funny as well when I saw that bubble above Scout's head...lol
No worries, it happens to the best of us...

IreneSwift

AlexaKry wrote: »

@IreneSwift : you have very beautiful horses! And a lot of work with them! And I love the stallions´ name! Does it have a special meaning?

No, in a previous game with Annie that I lost, she bought Orion at the equestrian center. I kept the name he already had because I liked it, and when I restarted her in this game, I remade him exactly as he had been before. Belle is a remake of the other horse she had back then, which I think I might have made myself. But it's been so long, I don't remember.

Yes, the horses are a lot of work. Every day she brushes them, cleans their hooves if the interaction is available, and gives them each either an apple or a carrot. Then she cleans any of the stalls that need it and scatters some hay from the large stack of hay bales in the barn. Once in a while she'll give them a little extra affection, but she doesn't have time to do too much with them every day, especially when it takes them so long to maneuver into position for every single interaction. Saturday is their family day, so sometimes the rest of the family helps with the horses, so they can get going sooner to wherever they're going to spend the day. Shortly before noon on Sundays, she saddles up Orion and heads off to the equestrian center to enter a couple of competitions. It's the only day of the week she can go and still be back home at their 7:30 supper time.

AlexaKry

@jillbg : they are very good friends, your stray Tramp and Taiga (can´t write the name with the second point over the i, don´t have such a point at my keyboard, sorry )! I like the pose, which shows them sleeping on the sofa, wish this could be possible without poses!

AlexaKry

@thuggishsplicer : Kezune looks a bit like a pitbull, just much cuter! And the name is interesting!
And Bailey has fun in a puddle! I discovered that cats play in them just a few days ago, was my first time, all other cats in my game didn´t do that!

AlexaKry

@IreneSwift : wow, the days of your Sims are really clocked! Mine just eat when they are hungry, that could be at 7 in the morning or at 12 in the night! And if they don´t have kids, they can do wahtever whenever they want, all are selfemployed.

IreneSwift

AlexaKry wrote: »

@IreneSwift : wow, the days of your Sims are really clocked! Mine just eat when they are hungry, that could be at 7 in the morning or at 12 in the night! And if they don´t have kids, they can do wahtever whenever they want, all are selfemployed.

I want my families to eat meals together, and I have a mod that lets them set the plates of food on the table and call everyone to come and eat. Spencer has a rabbithole job, and the kids have school, so they need to have a regular time to eat and sleep, so they can eat before school and work. Annie is self-employed as a sculptor, but her real goals are to master every skill, including all the hidden skills, make all of the skill challenges, and several other goals, like doing every upgrade in the game, collecting everything there is to collect, etc. So she doesn't get any idle time. She gets to play too, because most of the fun things they do have hidden skills, but she doesn't get to stand around doing idle actions.

jillbg

AlexaKry wrote: »

@jillbg : they are very good friends, your stray Tramp and Taiga (can´t write the name with the second point over the i, don´t have such a point at my keyboard, sorry )! I like the pose, which shows them sleeping on the sofa, wish this could be possible without poses!

@AlexaKry When you start using poses, you realise how many interactions are truly missing in the game...

AlexaKry

@jillbg : unfortunately! This and the 32-bit limit are the things which I would like to have to be improved in a new game! Social interactions between the Sims lack in so many ways! As much as I like the game, I'd love to see more possibilities that the Sims can use to take part in the other´s life! Although I like to decorate the houses and dress my Sims, this should not be the main focus of the developers as it seemingly was, when they made the dreadful number 4!

AlexaKry

@IreneSwift : hui, you play completely different than I do! Although I have completed most of the lifetime wishes of my Sims (because I´ve chosen the easiest to achieve ones) and maxed out nearly all skills of some of them (because I play on epic and didn´t adjust this to the speed of learning with the Nraas mods) I always play an easy going life. No stress!

IreneSwift

@AlexaKry This is the only sim I've ever tried to have master every skill, and I don't plan on ever doing it again. Some of those skills, I actually dislike, but I wanted to do this just once. I don't usually play on epic either, but I didn't want to disable aging, so I'm using a 900 day lifespan. Sometimes I play family and relationship oriented, and sometimes skill and goal oriented, usually on low free will, but occasionally on high free will. But I always prefer to have my families eat together and have a basic daily and weekly routine.

AlexaKry

@IreneSwift : as I said, our playstyles are very different! It´s so interesting to get to know how other´s are playing!

jillbg

I agree with you, totally! They should have kept TS2's interactions, just adding more of them...

spongebob

it turns out i dont have many screenshots of my old pets before they died... these are papyrus and sans Dog Edition!

my current pets aren't the major ones - i have 2 fish, and a parrot named Potty right now! I love having a bird and teaching it to talk

(also this is my first comment as an official member, i hope i uploaded those images right!)

AlexaKry

@jillbg : yes, that would be nice! I sometimes miss such interactions like showing compassion or backing up and supporting friends! (Even Sims 2 could still have been better And I would have liked it, if a better loving relationship was implemented, it is faaar too easy to seduce a happily married Sim! There are so much social interactions missing, which human life is about!

AlexaKry

@spongebob : welcome! Yes, your pictures are shown perfectly! You have had a fluffy lovely dog! And fish and parrots are pets, too! So if you have pictures of them together with your Sims, then post them! And by the way: I love your username! "seaweed porridge"

spongebob

AlexaKry wrote: »

@spongebob : welcome! Yes, your pictures are shown perfectly! You have had a fluffy lovely dog! And fish and parrots are pets, too! So if you have pictures of them together with your Sims, then post them! And by the way: I love your username! "seaweed porridge"

aw, thanks! ill try to get some good screenshots of my sims and the pets next time i play!! =D
puppies are so cute but i bit off WAY more than i could chew getting 3 right as i started playing. that was a MESS!

AlexaKry

@spongebob : I have a family with 5 dogs, 3 of them are slobs, 4 are loud and 1 is hyperactive. And the cat is constantly choking up hair tufts, so I can understand!