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I don't get it...
aaronrulz
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Why are my pets always in a bad mood for something that they have access to? I ask them "what's wrong" and the cats and dogs alike want food...when there is THREE bowls of food (and no routing issues). My cats do the same thing for the litter. The litter is there and accessible. My pets are "red" more than half of the time. It seems like it doesn't matter since they can't die. But it's annoying.
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Oh I get this all the time too. If I have time, I usually have a sim call them to the bowl or I ignore it. My Sims have 14 kids, 6 of them living in the house, full time jobs and a vet clinic, we're kind of busy lol
ETA: I only get the distressed pet moodlet if the food bowl is empty.
Agree. The cat litterbox thing is killing me. I wish they made an option to call the cat to use the litterbox.
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What? How does it tell you that?
Unfortunately, I doubt that they are ever going to fix this. I don’t even know if it’s a bug as everyone has it. Maybe it’s intentional for some reason?
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If you are having this issue, I suggest you add a comment or me too to the thread below. They might fix it if they get enough complaints and they do not look on here for bugs anymore, I think.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-CD-Pets-won-t-eat-unless-they-re-told-to/m-p/7032568#M72160
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@LadyTigress The only way to get rid of the skunk smell on your cat is to spend hours, and I mean hours, brushing the kitty until the smell is gone. It takes a lot of time. And I rid my worlds of all those bathroom/woohoo bushes months ago after spending a ton of Simoleans at the vet's office because of my dogs being sick all the time. Between those bushes and the leaf piles, I was about to pull my hair out until I banished the bushes and found a mod for the leaf pile.
@Busufu I play rotationally and was having the same problem you're experiencing. It drove me nuts. Yakfarm on Mod The Sims has a mod up that refills pet needs automatically. I don't use it because I use MCCC and it has a setting that lets you slow the decay of pet needs or turn it off completely. I set mine to half the time it takes for needs to decay and all my fur babies in the game are fine now when I come back from playing another household for a few Sim days.
But even though they're a hassle to deal with and we have to find workarounds because of some questionable coding, pets are still fun to have in the game. With a couple of mods and changing out those woohoo bushes and replacing them with a nice tree or flowers, things have calmed down considerably. It's a shame my mods folder is growing with every new pack or patch that comes our way, though. I promised myself I would keep the number of game mods at twenty but I passed that amount weeks ago because of all the things that annoy me or make no sense are too blatant and senseless to put up with any longer. It's the Sims, what else is there to say? I have been modding my game since the beginning of the Sims and it's just how it has to be I guess. After nearly two decades of playing the Sims, it has become normal to resort to using a mod to eradicate glitches and annoyances so I just suck it up and go with it.
Oh is it?
Hmmm... can't say I've ever seen a training reference for eating either. It just says they're hungry and to feed them.
I find they generally do better with the normal bowls of food. The auto filling one hardly gets touched unless you call them to eat, but they often eat by themselves with the standard bowls. With cats and kittens, I just ignore their pee need and they eventually use the litter box by themselves.
And hes instantly clean again. I usually dont use cheats in my gameplay but it gets annoying having to bathe the dog everytime you return home from another lot.
Awesome!! Hope this helps you get right back into your game
Cats are very particular about their litter boxes. Even an automatic litter box has to be changed every so often and since there is no way of changing the little in the litter boxes, I have to delete the old one and get a new one.
You shouldn't have to buy a new litter box but all the litter boxes except one (that laser-zaps the poop) do require cleaning/emptying every so often. Once the litter box is clean they'll stop complaining. After a while, they learn where the litter box and food bowls are, but you'll still get the reminders if the food bowl is empty (I use the one that autofills the bowl but that also needs to be refilled occasionally) or the litter box needs cleaning.
I pretty much don't have pets in my households unless it's a small household (single Sim or maybe a couple) that doesn't have many outside interests, especially for dogs unless they have the Independent trait. And I don't use the "PooHoo" bushes on my residential lots, just community lots or the ones out in the wild in Windenburg (I haven't had a Sim with a pet in Windenburg yet -- I might be moving one of my Sims there soon so I can see if the bushes are an issue for my Sim animals). (And where in MCCC is the Pet Needs Decay setting? I use the Sim one just to make my family a little easier to cope with, especially larger families where I don't have a stay at home parent otherwise I end up with everyone starving and needing to pee all at once.
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