An Article About Our Favorite Sims 2 Expansion Pack: Pets
With the Sims 2 Expansion Pack Pets, you can add to your familly:
You can Adopt, Create, Sell and Buy a Pet!
The pets that are available at CAS and you can customize as you like are Cats and Dogs.
The pets that are available only in live mode and you can only choose color are Womrats and Parrots.
Dogs and cats life stages are puppies/kittens, adults, and elders and then they die from old age.
Currently there are 35 dog breeds and 15 cat breeds made by maxis. But you still can make your own breed by Customization
Cross different breeds to create designer pets or make new ones and register them to appear in Create-A-Family as a unique breed.
You can choose the breed, the size, the color, the personality and even clothes!
Pets have 5 personality traits:
A Sim’s Best Friend. Choose a personality that best fits your pet’s family.
Here’s a guide on How you Can Adopt a pet from Pet Adoption Service.
Here’s a guide on How to Control the Pets like Sims.
To get a parrot or Womrat you have to buy a cage in live mode and then click on the cage and stock it. (like a fish tank)
You can Train your pet Behaviors by praising/scolding.
Also you can Teach your pet Commands. Or you can hire an Obedience Trainer.
Eat Pet Food or Eat Sim Food
Stays off Furniture or Goes on Furniture
Stays off Sim Bed or Goes on Sim Bed
Housebroken or Yardbroken
Respectful or Destructive
Use Water Wiggler (Dogs only)
Behave in Bathtub (Dogs only)
Use Scratching Post (Cats only)
Chew Furniture (Dogs only)
Scratch Furniture (Cats only)
Pets can have jobs as service, show business and security.
The current limit for a household is 8 sims and 6 pets.
Toddlers can cuddle pets and children can train them.
Pets can run away or be taken away by the animal control officer if not treated well.
Pets can travel in your cars.
Pets can come back as ghosts.
Pets can be resurrected but not as zombie.
Womrats can be removed from their cages and be played with.
Womrats can’t give your sims a disease like in the original sims and can die from starvation or being scared by a dog.
Womrats and Parrots are pets that live in cages and can be taken out briefly for your Sims to play with. They require less attention than Cats, Dogs and are not counted as household members.
In order to have Sims keep them, you must buy the appropriate cage in Buy mode, then use the cage’s “Restock” option to purchase the pet. This can only be done if the cage is empty and clean.
When stocking a cage you will have a choice of several fur or feather colors, and will be able to name the pet.
Small pets that are hungry may bite, and ones that are starving will have “hungry” thought bubble above their heads.
Sims can play with and watch these small pets, and can carry along the parrot. Also, parrots can be taught to talk. Once they’ve learned to talk, Sims can talk to them to build Charisma skill. Sims will also build Nature enthusiasm whenever they clean the cage or talk to a bird.
One instresting thing is that you can edit small pet’s mesh and you can have more pets than Womrats and Parrots. As an example: Spider, Iguana, Rat, Chinchilla, Hedgehog, Chipmunk, Lizard, Chameleon, Squirrel, Owl, Dragon.
How to Breed Pets
There are a few prerequisites for breeding pets in The Sims 2:
You have to have a pet house
You must have a good relationship with the pet
The pets must have a good relationship with each other (more than 25 points daily)
The Sim’s pet may give birth to up to four puppies or kittens. The maximum size of a litter is dependent on how many Sims and animals are already in the house.
After they are bred, kittens and puppies can be sold or given to other Sim families. What determines the simoleons earned through selling the litter is how well the pet has been trained.
If you want your pets to have a better relationship, lock them in a room with two food bowls and two beds, and two litterboxes. Don’t put any toys in the room, so when the pets get bored they will be forced to play with each other.
You may breed a large dog and a small dog, but the puppies will have only their mother’s genetics, and will be the same size as their mother.
Another way to increase the relationship between two pets is to individually praise them whenever they are playful or playful towards others. Eventually when the pet learns to be playful, reached when the skill bubble pops, a Sim can command them to “play with” and select any pet on the lot. Having the pets play with one another increases the relationship.
One new Feature on The Sims 2 Pets Expansion Pack is Werewolves.
Sims can become Werewolves when bitten by the leader of the pack, a large wolf distinguishable by its dark coat, heavy build, and characteristic glowing yellow eyes. The leader only appears at night.
To become a werewolf, players must build up a relationship with any wolf with glowing eyes (the werewolf pack leader). The pack leader will eventually “nibble” the Sim it was interacting with, causing it to become a werewolf.
Here’s a guide on How to Make a Werewolf in the Sims 2.
Pets and Children share Bed
Invisible One Tile Pet Bed for use with Maxis Pet Beds
All pictures are not mine. Have a nice day, adopt a pet to your sims and peace!
