Stray Pets?

[AzaraGore]

So I've come across a few stray animals (and wild horses) me and my boyfriend grew fond of this one stray elder dog, so I decided to adopt him. Now, a few sim days after his adoption I decided to move to a large more spacious home because we were adopting another horse and the first we had already had little room to roam. After moving and settling in the stray dog started heading off to our old abandoned home to rest whenever he was tired, he'd return home to play and eat but would only sleep at our old home.

Has your strays (or wild beasts) done anything weird like this?

[KajaB]

Hmm. Could favorite sleeping spots be retained when moving?
Perhaps try setting it in the new home.

[Honshu Wolf]

If the dog only rests in a certain pet house then I'm pretty sure you can go into City Edit Mode to remove that object and hopefully prevent your pet from sleeping-spot amnesia.

[Rockerduck]

To get more strays, try this mod: http://www.modthesims.info/d/459310

It works. :D

As for favourite sleeping spots... ugh. My cats used to return to their previous abandoned lot because the game never realised I'd moved. *facepalms*

[AzaraGore]

If the dog only rests in a certain pet house then I'm pretty sure you can go into City Edit Mode to remove that object and hopefully prevent your pet from sleeping-spot amnesia.

Yeah it an object, lol, was just a spot on the ground in the backyard. Once I realized I started forcing him to sleep on pet beds and the couches at my new estate until he was broken out of the habbit.

Was cute while it lasted but it also worried me a bit, since it was a ways away from our newer home and their moods (such as hunger, bladder, destruction) don't force them out of slumber to find the nearest source of relief and his motives would drop into the red pretty quick.

[Listen-to-my-Geekness]

I have no idea what is wrong... o-o

[Winsor]

There is a cat that keeps on coming to my parent's house every evening and meowing rather loudly. I don't know if it belongs to someone or if it is a stray cat but we already have 3 so we can't take on any more.

I am not sure I would take on a stray animal rather bring it to the animal shelter.
It's sad to pets abandoned but I don't know if I could make that kind of commitment before getting it checked.

[somethingelse]

ummmm
i thought we were talking about pixelated "in game" animals. i'm almost positive of it. i'd even bet the pixelated gartersnake my pixel cat caught finally because i finally got hunting skills working.

i'd like to know why my supposedly "friendly" dog has been picking fights with stray dogs, but he wants to play with the raccoon. is it maybe because the house is being constantly burglarised, so i have him "gaurd" alot, and maybe it's making him go against his friendly nature?

i dont know, but at this rate the poor dog is going to be seriously neurotic, and i didnt see that as a pet trait. doesnt mean it wasnt there... just means i didnt see it.

[Zokugai]

ummmm
i thought we were talking about pixelated "in game" animals. i'm almost positive of it. i'd even bet the pixelated gartersnake my pixel cat caught finally because i finally got hunting skills working.

i'd like to know why my supposedly "friendly" dog has been picking fights with stray dogs, but he wants to play with the raccoon. is it maybe because the house is being constantly burglarised, so i have him "gaurd" alot, and maybe it's making him go against his friendly nature?

i dont know, but at this rate the poor dog is going to be seriously neurotic, and i didnt see that as a pet trait. doesnt mean it wasnt there... just means i didnt see it.

"Guard ____" is one of the things that will eventually give your dog the Aggressive trait (and untrain whatever the opposite trait is first, which I believe is Friendly). Just like how if you praise a Piggy cat for using the litterbox, it will eventually unlearn Piggy and then learn Neat.

[Erfie]

Has anybody else noticed their strays wearing collars? Doesn't that kind of... defeat the purpose?

This may just be a weird thing one of my mods is doing, but I feel I should check to see if anyone else is getting this too!

[somethingelse]

i did notice a cat another family adopted lost it's piggy trait when it kept using the litterbox, and, oddly enough, when it would drink out of the toilet. that weirded me out, i always saw that as kinda piggy, especially out of a nasty dirty toilet.

if only the damn burglar would stop stealing that particular sims stuff, i could let the dog relax.

i did think i saw collars on the strays. i'm not the only one eh? maybe the townies are bad about adopting and abandoning?

[bebe0]

yes, i have also seen this cat coming everytime...

[Zokugai]

I never really noticed that as a problem. Strays IRL have collars all the time. Dog gets loose, someone turns a cat out because they don't want it anymore, etc. That's actually why they make cat collars in that breakaway style, because of how often cats escape and wind up as strays. That way if they get caught on something the collar will snap and they won't hang themselves.

[somethingelse]

actually, thats why my real life cats dont wear collars at all. i dont trust the break away type to break away.

the 1st few times i played i saw wild horses all over everywhere, now not so much, but i still see stray cats and dogs. maybe it's the part of the neighborhood i have them in. maybe horses dont like to hang out down by the sunflower house where the turdburgler keeps stealing my sims crap from. maybe they're affraid of the turdburglar. i'm getting to be.

[red2121sharon]

So I've come across a few stray animals (and wild horses) me and my boyfriend grew fond of this one stray elder dog, so I decided to adopt him. Now, a few sim days after his adoption I decided to move to a large more spacious home because we were adopting another horse and the first we had already had little room to roam. After moving and settling in the stray dog started heading off to our old abandoned home to rest whenever he was tired, he'd return home to play and eat but would only sleep at our old home.

Has your strays (or wild beasts) done anything weird like this?

Not strays or wild beasts but I moved my sim family (1 adult, 1 teen, 2 horses) from one lot to another.
When the teen finished school, she went to their old house. She just stood by the front door getting annoyed because she couldnt get inside.
I told her to go to the new house and she caught a taxi. Since then I have had no problem with her
Could it be that I moved houses while she was at school? Or just a blip?
Was your stray dog on the lot when you moved house?

[AzaraGore]

Kinda went off topic eh? The strays I adopted still seem to feel a bit home sick. I'm sure they're just stuck in the state of thinking the old house is still active (I've moved a few times after just adopting a stray hanging around my house) but the game won't even run anymore, it minimizes itself (nothing else opened or pops-up) and just crashes after I click on it to full screen. :3