self-created strays without second names?

[Babahara]

I never tried creating strays before, so please bear with me if that's a stupid question!

So I want to populate my hood with animals, but without second names, just like normal strays. However, when you adopt a pet, the pet takes on the second name. So if you breed pets normally and then turn them into strays, they'll still keep their second names, I think. And if you create pets in CAS, they'll probably take on the second name of the household you move them in, and again you end up with strays with the second name.

How do you make strays so that it can be avoided entirely? It's a little incongrous to have a homeless dog named Rex Landgraab running around the hood.

[Babahara]

Nevermind, it seems that there's an easy option to create strays and orphan pets via the npc & townie maker :) Too bad puppies and kittens cannot be created, only adult or elder pets, but I guess it's a game limitation. I kind of miss being able to adopt a kitten instead of an adult pet in the adoption center.

[Nymphy01]

You can adopt puppies and kittens.
Have a townie be the breeder. Breed puppies and kittens then "give-up" your kittens/puppies. They should be in the adoption pool.

[Peni Griffin]

You can only get puppies and kittens by calling on the phone; they aren't available at the pet store. There's only a small number of skins for puppies and kittens, and you won't know what they look like till they grow up, though you can customize them a bit with Change Pet's Appearance in the mirror.

The pet adoption people always drop the pet off in the road, so as far as my stories are concerned these puppies and kittens are adopted off the street in the classic fashion of most of the cats in my life.

[Babahara]

You can adopt puppies and kittens.
Have a townie be the breeder. Breed puppies and kittens then "give-up" your kittens/puppies. They should be in the adoption pool.
Thanx, it's nice to know that kittens and puppies can be given up for adoption, as I obviously cannot check now. Then that will be the plan: breed pets. I guess "self-sufficiency" of my hood has just skyrocketed :)

Peni Griffin, unfortunately, that won't work in my game. Because I installed nostrayrespawn hack from MATY before creating the hood, there are no animals in the game. I believed it to stop only strays from spawning, but orphan pets didn't spawn, either. Or rather I'm exaggerating, for some reason two orphan pets did spawn: one adult cat and one adult small dog. But no big dogs, and no puppies or kittens, and no strays at all except wolves.

So I guess my choice is either breed them myself or put out the hack. I'd rather breed, since the game creates many default pets all the time, and I'd feel like I resurrected some of them from other hoods. :giggler: