I know...I may as well be holding "I'm a uptight loser who hates fun" sign, but I just want to vent here.
I have OCD. I really, really hate any kind of toilet humor, or gross-out humor in general. It genuinely upsets me. I have to take my phone with me into the bathroom so that I don't have to think about the fact that I'm going to the bathroom.
In TS2 and TS3, animals peed, which I could deal with--Sims pee, after all--but they didn't poop. And now they do.
I know poop has been a thing since the "Flaming bag" of TS2, but that was pretty easy to avoid. And I don't mind the "holding the bag" chance card result in the Criminal Career. But if you have a pet in TS4, this is something you're going to have to constantly deal with, to the point where I don't even know if I want to get Cats and Dogs, even though I *really* love my Sims owning pets in the previous games.
Please, if anyone else is bothered by this, let me know. Or even if you're not, I feel like I could use some validation right now.
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There's also a mod out there for an "outdoor" litterbox that's two rocks that never needs cleaning, if you're not adverse to mods.
So that's a solution for cats. I don't have one for dogs, unfortunately. Wish I did, I might have more sim families have dogs as pets.
Oh, thank you! That's nice to know about cats, at least.
I thought it was a bug, but it turned out to be caused by a mod, that fullfilled the needs of my animals everytime I loaded the game or the family.
If the poop bothers you that much, you could try to put the mod in your game.
It's called "No Sick, Dirty, Sad and Hungry Cats & Dogs" by LittleMissSam.
In the description it says:
"Disable Decay Prevenger Buff for owned Pets:
When loading a Household the Part of the Mod which adds a hidden Buff which decreases the Decay of Needs will be disabled"
So technically your dogs will never poop again if you download this part of the mod (if I understood this correctly. English is not my first language). But this also means that your pets are never hungry or sick. If I remember correctly you can still call them to eat manually, they will take a few bites and stop to eat.
Maybe this mod will help you with your problem and you can enjoy your game with the furry friends.
For the pets, I always get the self-cleaning litter. It's great, shoots lasers at the cat poop, you don't have to do anything.
For the dogs, not much you can do otherwise consider creating a robot dog in CAS. I wish we could teach them to do their business in a certain place.
As long as I can’t smell it it’s grand, because having to deal with this 💩 in RL is an entirely different story…
I once had a couple who had 5 dogs... now that really was a pain!
that is incredible @Elliandre
At least some of my dogs have a dedicated pee/poop area - on the doorstep. There's constantly need of cleaning, despite there being a large lawn right next to it the 3 dogs always do their stuff on the doorstep and my sims often step into it.
I don't mind a lot though, as most of my dog owning households also garden a lot and by this get free fertilizer. I guess hat might be why we got poop instead of pee because it would be even more gross storing pee in your inventory... I really miss the compost bin...
The only things about the dog poop that disturbs me is having to run around cleaning it up, or when my unfortunate Sim happens to step in it. Ick. I've stepped in it in RL and let me tell you how hard it is to get it out of the grooves on the bottom of the shoe! Many a style of Tennis Shoes has them. Some hiking boots have them, too. We used to call them Waffle-Stompers.
I do respect how you feel, however. My dearly departed Dad couldn't say the punch-line on a joke because he couldn't bring himself to say the word fart. Unfortunately for me, I've loosened up considerably since I left my parents' home.
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If I do ever get the pack, I probably will download a mod that will make it so that I can prevent pooping. That sounds like the way to go.
Thank you for all your suggestions!
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cool now you gave me an idea hahahah
I don't like when these piles randomly appear in my sims' inventory.
YES! This! In meat life, dogs don't poop on verandas or porches. Although there is of course exceptions and one that I know off is when she (the dog I knew in meatlife) did her biz on the porch was because she was old and with arthritis. So going down the 2 steps onto the grass was sometimes too painful for her so her owner put down newspapers onto the porch just for her when she was having a bad day. But this was a medical exception and just part of getting old. Dog owners actually potty train them NOT TO. I wish our animal loving Sims could do the same.
All the sims err'day