Always something new

[strangetomato]

It amazes me how many things I'm still discovering in this game. I've had Pets for ages (it was my first EP), and I've never seen this.








Look at him go! He really wants to kill that remote controlled car. It makes me wonder what other objects have interactions for cats and dogs that I don't know about.

The wolf dog is Vermillion, pet of the Curious family. He used to be a wolf named Noodle, and Nervous owned him for a while, but I gave him to Pascal because things were getting crowded down there. He used to be white too, but I recoloured him to look more like a character from that Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli anime that used to air on TV after school back in the day. As a long-time fan of the books and just about every other adaptation of the story I could get my hands on, I did enjoy that cartoon.

All of my sims seem to own strays (and many of those are wolves). Maybe I should set up a little Mowgli on a Jungle Book themed lot for kicks one day.



 

Comments

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

AWW, he is precious! I never knew that dogs could play with toys either! That's awesome.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Wolves make excellent pets. (He really hates baths, though.)

I only caught on to their chasing of the mail carrier recently too. It's so cute.

[angy182.livejournal.com]

Aww Vermillion is really sweet! and I didn't know that dogs can interact with toys! O_O

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I know. How cool is that? I need to try some more things with Pets. Maybe I'll read up on it a bit to see what else there is.

[sophie10.livejournal.com]

I never seem to build up a high enough relationship with my strays to be able to adopt them. Any tips?

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

*rolls up sleeves*

I'm all about adopting the strays. First of all, it's easier in Summer, with the boost to relationship building (I have two of my main hoods set to perpetual Summer, which makes things easier). You'll want to engage the stray as soon as possible once they enter the lot, to give you as much time as possible.

Once I greet the stray, I start with the "give love" interactions (treats are always accepted, I think), and then play briefly with them, and keep cycling through all the available interactions. I keeping queuing them up, so there's no break to give them a window to decide to leave the lot. Most times, if I really focus the sim on these interactions, the option to adopt will appear before they decide to run off.

Otherwise, you have to wait for them to show up again, and that's random, so it might be a long wait.

[sinderellah.livejournal.com]

These, and as long as my Sim is at a decent Aspiration level, the Reward Glasses help too. I know it's cheesy, but it's worked for me!

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

Oh god, so cute! I love big, bushy dogs (or wolves XD). They're so snuggly. I also really love his coloring.

I was never a huge Jungle Book fan. I've only ever seen the Disney version. My favorite in that was Bagheera though.

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

My favorite thing about the pets is something I discovered when I was trying a pet legacy challenge once. (It's like a regular legacy but only 5 gens for both pet and human and you have to mate your founder pet with a stray, keep at least one puppy from the litter and mate that one to a stray, and so on.) It was the first time I ever had more than one pet on a lot at once, and I found that whenever you gave one a treat, the others would crowd around and beg for treats too. Just like real life!

(I know, probably old news, but I thought it was incredibly cute. :D)

I miss the RC car. I've never played with it since I heard it can cause Very Bad Things to happen (what, I have no idea though.) Maybe someone else has more info on that or maybe it was just a hoax or something??

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,14013.msg401210.html#msg401210

Seems the RC car thing is now a non-issue.

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a relief! RC cars for everyone now!

[showercapfrog.livejournal.com]

Pescado said something like the game plays it as a Sim, so that it has autonomy or something, and so it behaves oddly if you save. Or something. It was a while ago, and I don't remember (obviously) :P

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

Yes all I remember was reading where people had posted about problems they were having in the game, couldn't enter lots or whatever... and the suggestion "Do you ve a RC car on the lot?" would always come up. But yeah, it was a long time ago and I don't remember it really well. :P

[oookonxooo.livejournal.com]

I find it so cute when puppies line up to toddlers for a cuddle.
Sometimes my strays don't accept the give treat interaction and growl on the sim giving it to them, reducing also the relationship score. But they always accept strokes, so usually I use a treat-stroke-stroke-treat rutine until further options are available.
I'm still waiting for my first sim to turn into a werewolf:)

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

Large dogs will also play with their own reflection in floor sized mirrors. It's really cute.

Do cats interact with the RC car?

[showercapfrog.livejournal.com]

RC car OM NOM NOM. Breakfast!

He's a very russetty kind of wolf, isn't he? Not at all the colours I expect wolves to be.

[devin11234.livejournal.com]

He's a nice a dog.