Since it's in this message board, I presume you mean in TS2. If so, the answer is: you can't. However, if you mean in real life, you could just walk down to your local pet shop with some money!
How were the pets in the first sims? (I just caught on to this sims thing) Were they cute and fun to have or just annoying?
Well, the graphics were pretty crappy, and you couldn't really sit down on the couch and cuddle up with them. I guess now I'd call them annoying compared to TS2.
I played Sims Online for a very short period of time. I had a pet there and it wasn't too annoying. Though, I don't miss it in TS2.
We have Unleashed, and IMHO the sole purpose of the pets was to break up player command strings. Before unleashed you could give your sims a list of instructions (ie: cook,eat, use toilet, take shower then sleep in pj's) but the pets screwed that up by being underfoot. The dog would be asleep in front of the counter and your sim would put the food on the floor and go use the toilet. Or the cat would be catching a mouse in front of the toilet blocking both it and the shower, making your sim go straight to bed after a heavy meal. Keep in mind that this could be your sim's pet, or just some scroungy stray from the neighborhood (who for some reason have free roam of your house.) And to rub salt in the wound they introduced a racoon into the neighborhood which would knock over your trash each night. :( But my wife loved it. It's her nurturing instinct I guess.
A racoon? lol I'm sure after a while it would get annoying, but I'm also sure I'd laugh the first couple times I seen it.
The only real reason that I missed having pets is when I made my self-sim and my boyfriend. I really want to make our three cats as well, Hailee, Tanner, and Addie. They are such a big part of our lives, our little sim selves seem like they are missing something!
I have to admit it was kinda cute because when the racoon showed up they would play the burglar music and wake you up. But as we have had to teach each of our real-world rug-rats in turn...some things are only funny *once*!
You know what I really hated about the pets in UL? I hated it when they'd catch a mouse and put it somewhere that blocked something important, say, the fridge or the shower. And the sim wouldn't pick it up automatically, and most of the time they were hard for me to see. So I would be clicking on the fridge and ordering them to cook dinner, and it would keep falling out of their action quey. They'd wander off to get in the hot tub, and the kids are starving, and I can't see the mouse!! LMAO. I really, really do not miss the original sims game. TS2 is so much better!!!
Oh, that's right! Puddles!! And the dogs did it too! See, I am not one of the people clammoring for a TS2 version of Unleashed, and that's why. It always seemed to me that the pets were more trouble than they were worth. But the other stuff that UL added, like the gardening and the little "Old Towne" area I did like.
You mean there wasn't any liter box and you couldn't walk the dog? It would be fun to take your dog to a community lot with you. The mouse and the racoon thing are not my cup of tea. Mice running around the sims house? Ick!. (although it would be funny if when they saw one they would react the same way as when they see the roaches) and I can't even stand it when the townies come and knock over my garbage. What is wrong with them!!! I wish my simmies could return the favor. ohhh just had an idea. Wouldn't it be fun if you could train your simmie dog (like earning skill points) and the more you trained him the more he could do...eventually your sim would be able to sic him on people. hehe
You could do that in the original game anyway, you just had to get the trainer (if you or your Sims were too lazy, like mine) to train the dog (or cat) to do tricks and obedience and stuff. You could enter the pet show and were more likely to win a prize if you had a well-trained pet. I never had any well-trained pets you could also tell your pet to attack another Sim on your lot, or the raccoon if it was there. :box:
Ick indeed. I've got mice in my real house and I hate them. I used to think they were cute before I owned a home. Now they must die.
Actually there was a litter box and you could house train your pets to only go outside, you just had to praise them or scold them, depending on where it was that they had gone to make them learn the correct thing.
