Smaller Animals Question.

[jessica x gore]

OK so I was going around the neighborhood and stumbled upon a hawk. I wanted to pick it up and take it home but the only option for me or my dog was to watch. I couldn't do anything else. Then later on my sim started to play with something at the Equestrian Center and it turned out to be a snake. She was able to play and pick it up. So my question is, are we not going to be able to capture birds? Or do we have to have a cat/dog with a certain level of hunting skill first? Thanks in advance!

[kristie91]

I believe cats can only hunt small animals... and dogs find things like gems... I have no idea what the cats hunting level has to be though.

[jessica x gore]

My Sim was able to pick up a snake but not the bird. That's the confusing part. =/

[J. M. Pescado]

That's not confusing. Have you ever TRIED to pick up a bird? How well did that work? Betcha it didn't. Picking up a snake is easy. Picking up a bird, not so much. There's a joke about that: There are 10 birds sitting on a fence. I shoot one. How many are left?

[insane_in_charlie_shirt]

Can't sims sometimes just mess up when collecting things? I'm sure my sims have messed up and gotten nothing from collecting bugs and butterflys before.

Though I don't know, this is just a guess. Heck I don't even have the game yet.

[Arisuka]

I think that there are 'wild animals' and then the 'critters', of which the latter ones are the collectible animals (probably spawners, whereas wild animals are not)? So the wild animals would probably be the deer, owls, hawks and raccoons.

[Sirah81]

Common minor pets can be picked out by sims just like beetles and butterflies, but rare ones must be caught with a cat, hunting. The snake was common, bird was not.

[Axe Gaijin]

Picking up birds is easy, you just need a flashy car. :lol:

[jessica x gore]

That's not confusing. Have you ever TRIED to pick up a bird? How well did that work? Betcha it didn't. Picking up a snake is easy. Picking up a bird, not so much. There's a joke about that: There are 10 birds sitting on a fence. I shoot one. How many are left?

Lol. I don't know about you but I'd rather try to pick up a bird for a week than to ever even touch a snake. I'm just saying. And there are 0 birds unless we are counting the dead one. (Or was that rhetorical? Ha.)


Also, thanks everyone for your help. I'll get a cat and see if he will be able to get it for me. I was just worried it was a glitch since I was able to at least pet a wild raccoon.

[Daishar]

I haven't found a hawk yet but I have been able to pick up and take home every bird I have found so far. In fact, every small animal I have found I've been able to pick up and take home. I happen to have Animal Lover, or whatever it is, as one of my traits.

[jessica x gore]

I haven't found a hawk yet but I have been able to pick up and take home every bird I have found so far. In fact, every small animal I have found I've been able to pick up and take home. I happen to have Animal Lover, or whatever it is, as one of my traits.

Crap. My Sim has the animal lover trait as well. This means that my game has a glitch....or maybe that particular hawk had an issue. I'm trying to find another one but finding these animals are challenging unless I'm not looking in the right places. I've been playing for several hours all together and I've only found a hawk, snake and a rat.

[KaiRuh]

Curious: Does the collection helper show minor animals now?

[Srikandi]

Don't know but I would hope so.

One odd thing: spawners for minor animals are under "Fish" in BuyDebug ;)

However, if you have a cat, you don't NEED to find spawners... the cat's "stalk prey" interaction will auto-spawn a pet wherever it is.

I don't know if that includes the larger birds, though... biggest bird my kitties have found is a goldfinch.

[esjaip]

Yes, the collection helper does show the smaller animals. :)

[jessica x gore]

Well I found a crow and the only options were to watch and befriend crow. So I clicked on befriend and she leaned down let it climb on her arm and then stuck it in her pocket. Although I did adopt a cat from the shelter and he has no interactions to hunt nor can my sim teach him to hunt. He even has the hunter trait. I just give up. =/

[Srikandi]

Well I found a crow and the only options were to watch and befriend crow. So I clicked on befriend and she leaned down let it climb on her arm and then stuck it in her pocket. Although I did adopt a cat from the shelter and he has no interactions to hunt nor can my sim teach him to hunt. He even has the hunter trait. I just give up. =/

Cats learn the hunting skill by practicing on a toy from the toybox.

[jessica x gore]

Cats learn the hunting skill by practicing on a toy from the toybox.

Thank you so much! Although I feel slightly stupid now seeing as it was something so simple. 3 cookies and 5 kittens for you! =D

[cutsocks]

One odd thing: spawners for minor animals are under "Fish" in BuyDebug ;)


Tis true.

However, minor animals [critters] seem to share spawners with other things like butterflies and insects [maybe more, I dunno yet, having gotten terribly nitty-gritty with testing yet]. Open up any old world with spawners around, get yourself a Collection Helper, wait about a day, and the new critters will start showing up. This occurs for both spawners on and off lots. This explains why there are no dedicated critter spawners for CAW. I guess the dedicated spawners in debug just help for, I dunno, having a specific bird park or snake lot or whatnot. Frustratingly those critter spawners don't mention rarity, just numbers.

[SilentPsycho]

That's not confusing. Have you ever TRIED to pick up a bird? How well did that work? Betcha it didn't. Picking up a snake is easy. Picking up a bird, not so much. There's a joke about that: There are 10 birds sitting on a fence. I shoot one. How many are left?

Depends upon the nature of the bird, and whether the dead bird fell off the fence or not.