As of now, the best we can wait on is a patch, but to see if there are any cures to issues prior to that, post and bugs you're having in your game specific to Pets here!

I don't have any real gameplay or graphical issues, but one dumb thing I noticed is that the birth of a foal in one of my Sims' households was reported like the birth of a baby in the newspaper. It referred to a "... 7.5 pound baby boy." Uh, I don't think so.

EDIT: I discovered that the hard-edged, non-furry look of the dogs and cats is not normal, so I guess that's a bug or problem.

My game has been freezing! Sometimes when I go to Map View, most times when I go to any community lot. I've been trying to save my game before I go anywhere, but it's a bummer having to restart the game every time. Ergh.

Let's see... I mentioned a couple in a different thread. In the new town that came with pets, I sometimes get a route fail when trying to accept a award at the city hall, which results in never being able to accept the award. This to me seems like the placement of the lot and the way the sim approaches the building. So depending on the way the sim tries to enter the building/lot will depend if things go ok or not

I have a dog that likes to rest on furniture, like my sims bed or the couch. Recently though, most of the time after it gets on the furniture it gets a red thought bubble of what looks like an image of a burglar trying to get into a window, and then quickly gets down off the furniture. The only possible link I can come up with on why this happens, is a burglar did try and enter my house some days prior, but the dog was sleeping on the couch at the time and did nothing. It didn't wake up or anything, it just kept sleeping (what a let down that was). My sim however got up the instant the burglar came onto the lot and kicked his butt. So maybe some sort of error occurred and now the dog keeps thinking there's a burglar

I've noticed there are now small dirt piles around the world, which I'm guessing are dig spots for animals to recover gems and whatnot. What this has done though, is it seems to change the chance of a gem spawning either under ground in these dig spots, or above ground to be found by the sim. Which decreases the chance of a sim finding gems without a pet. Not exactly a bug, just annoying

However, with that mentioned, there is indeed a bug with this. When traveling to a World Adventure vacation spot, it gives you the message that you can not take pets with you. I decided to head to Egypt. One of the adventures my sims got was to find 4 gems for someone. To my dismay, most of the gem spawn locations were all dig spots now, making it almost impossible for my sim to find the gems he needed. If you can't take pets with you on WA locations, then how are you supposed to dig those spots up? Nice one there EA

Most of the time I would edit my previous post, but I'm double posting to bump

My game has been freezing as well! The first time I thought it was just a random freeze, but now it's happened again in a similar fashion Sims 3 has never frozen on me like this before. I'm also noticing it's eating way more ram than it used to, which could be linked to the freezes. I've seen it eat as much ram as some of my CG renders, which is seriously baffling! I've seen higher end games take up less memory

In the new pets town, my grocery and cafe lot is now no longer functional. I can no longer buy food there or eat at the cafe. I've tried deleting the rabbit hole, and replacing it with the same one, which didn't work. I've even tried loading up a completely new game with a new world (where it was actually working) and copied the lot to the saved lots list, then bulldozed it on my other save to replace with the new one. Still didn't work. So I don't know what to do about that now (if anyone has any suggestions)

Oyy. Seems like we need a patch. The only problem I had was when a burglar came, I had saved right before hand, and when my sim called the police and it showed up, RIGHT before the fight between the police and burglar would occur, it was crashing. That was when I had awesome mod in my mods folder. The 1.26 is compatible, but hasn't been tested for pets, which is shit, so I got rid of it. Only problem is that I don't have a CD drive in my computer (I'm ghetto and have to open it up and connect it on the side). So I chose that over Awesome fucking everything up. Not so awesome.. eh?

Here's some of my bugs.

- Some icons are very blurry, like the icons that appears over a pets head.
- Even the pictures in the adoption thingy are veru blurry. I can't even see how the pet looks like.
- When I'm running a course on the jumping ranch, my horse sometimes appear outside the ranch and then back inside.
- The message for becoming a bff with your pet is sometimes spamming me, even though I already got the message before.
- This one is the nasty one... When I'm changing families I sometimes get stuck at the map before the game is zooming in to the family. I can move around the map but I can't click on something. And then I'll have to ctrl+alt and delete to close the game. Then it says: "Not responding".

I really hope that EA will give us a patch very soon

Ditto to the last one. :(

It seems that the last bug is only affected with one particularly family. Other families seems to work just fine but when I try with my family it loads for some seconds and then nothing happen :(

^ That last bug happened to me prior to pets, in Crescent Cove with the Caspers, actually. I am also getting the blurry icons. I bet that has somthing to do with our high resolutions. Also, the bubbles above their heads are blurry, but namingly the pet icons always have a black line next to them, like it's cropped wrong or somthing. Hopefully that's fixed.

I get the blurry icons too when adopting pets. I didn't really report it as a bug though, because I just kind of thought maybe that's the way it was supposed to be. It doesn't matter if I can make out what kind of animal it is or not, what I really want is to be able to tell what breed it is, or some sort of info like if it's a big dog or small dog (I really dislike small dogs, except maybe 2 breeds). Not unless it tells you after you select one? I didn't try, because I didn't want to suddenly have a pet I didn't want. It's also hard to tell between a small dog and a puppy

Swatme, if you want a no-cd mod, just use Twallan's. It's a mod on it's own and doesn't do anything else, and it has worked for me ever since he first released it (has never needed to be updated). Because AwsomeMod does so many other things, you have to always wait till it's fully updated

Found another bug, which seems to be with job/profession outfits. At first I thought maybe it was some bug related to Ambitions and the Fire Fighter profession, but now it's looking like it's more than that

It first started happening when I reached the top of the Fire Fighter profession. Basically when you're a fire fighter, you have your normal work clothes, and then when you respond to an emergency, your sim changes into his fire fighter clothes (like helmet/mask and the breathing tank on his back). But after a while, suddenly my sim would just change into his normal everyday clothes and then go fight fires like that. He never once again put on his helmet and tank anymore and just changed to his everyday. This really ruined my immersion

Now I'm using a different sim who is in the Criminal career. At a certain level you get your first job outfit. His carpool came for him, and he changed into his new work clothes, but then I canceled his que to get into the car, because I wanted him to take his own car. After I clicked on his car and told him to go to work, he suddenly changed back into his everyday clothes and went to work in that instead

Later after he got promoted again, he got a new job outfit. Right around this time I started to mess around with the chemistry set, which comes with it's own scientist looking outfit. Then when he needed to go to work, he now dresses in the scientist outfit instead of his job clothes. If I go into "Plan Outfit" and then go to the Misc category, the job outfit is now gone and has been replaced with the scientist one (should be the thug looking outfit). So I don't know what the hell is happening here. Has anyone else noticed weird occupation outfit mishaps?

Also after my sim got a tattoo, when he changed back into normal clothes, he suddenly changed into a new everyday outfit instead of his normal one. This new one was completely random and one I never made for him. His original was still in his plan outfit list, so I didn't care too much

It really is amazing how many things EA can screw up I've never had these problems before

i have one glitch. i don't know if it have anything to do with pets but all my downloadable concent is gone and when i install it again it don't gets in the game :/

Have you tried moving the family to a smaller house. I played around abit with moving my family to different houses and finally with a tiny house it loaded up. Kinda stupid because the family has like 3 horses and a foal but at least they are playable now.

It may not be so much the building but the lot itself, I had a problem before where rabbit holes stopped working and what happened was that the lot they were sitting on somehow got switched to NOT ALLOW VISITORS, so try checking out the lot type of make sure its accepting visitors.

Yea, I checked all that. It's on Allow Visitors. I can manually go to the lot, but I can't interact with the rabbit hole building at all. It simply isn't clickable. I tried deleting it and placing the same rabbit hole there, but that didn't work. I tried deleting the entire lot, and replacing it with a copy from a different save, still didn't work. In a different save game, the lot works perfectly fine (and by that I mean a different family, different world, just same town). I'm a little confused on how or why this has happened. I've never seen it happen before, and it hasn't happened again on my other saves (yet anyway) and I'm not really sure how to fix it. If I can't find a way to fix it, then I'm a little worried about it happening to a more important building

EDIT: I did some more testing/attempted fixing and came up with some weird results. So I tried once again doing the above to no avail. I then deleted the lot space entirely from the world map and was going to place another lot with the same dimensions. Only there wasn't any So I tried placing a lot size bigger than the original, and it wouldn't let me. Even after I deleted the lot next to it. It's completely flat terrain! Why would it not let me. There was plenty of space

At that point I reloaded the save and this time tried replacing the building with a different grocery building. Still no go. So I removed it and placed one of the Diner buildings there... and that worked! So at this point I'm a little confused. I tried placing other buildings there, and they worked. I then tried to place each different grocery store, and NONE of them worked. So it's like every grocery store is completely broken. That makes even less sense to me. How the hell did that happen? Still no idea on how to fix this

I read somewhere when your sim have spesial seeds in his invetory he cannot enter the grocery store.

Rabbit Hole lots are supposed to be set to no visitors allowed... I think. If they're set as anything else, NPC's and townies will accumulate or spawn on the lot

OMG! My sim happened to be raising gardening and I picked up some special seeds to plant later (because he couldn't yet). I removed them from his inventory and now he can go to the grocery store again!

I'd totally hug you right now

Is this a bug or supposed to be intended? Anyway, thank you

I feel like that's right but wrong at the same time. Rabbit Holes override what the lot's purpose is, but they still show up as "parks" if you are chosing to go there on a date or anything. Or at least thats the case with joint lots in Pets.