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Mad Poster
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#1 Old 28th Feb 2017 at 2:05 PM
Default If Pets had wants/fears, what would they be?
Was trying to fulfill some wants for my sims when I accidentally clicked on my sim cat and wondered what her wants might be if EA had given pets wants.

WANTS

Win fight with 'insert pet here'
Chase mailman
Dig hole
Get human to play 'insert game here'
Chase butterflies
Steal sim food
Get praised
Make friends with 'X'
Roll in trash
Learn command

FEARS

Get bath
Get sprayed by skunk
Get scolded
Toddler eats all my food (it's bloody hard to keep them out of it)
Sleep in dirty bed/use dirty litterbox (for finicky)

What would you come up with?
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#2 Old 28th Feb 2017 at 2:23 PM

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#3 Old 28th Feb 2017 at 3:08 PM
Hug (Sim).
Pounce (sim).
Win challenge against (other animal in household).
Get better food bowl.
Get treat.
Eat fresh fish.
Be fed at table.
Save family from fire. (Filled if rain puts the fire out while pet is raising a fuss.)

Fears:
FIRE!
New puppy/kitten in family.
(Favored sim) moves out/dies
(Favored pet) dies
Eat from cheap bowl

Have you ever looked at their interests? My favorite is "scary things."

Ugly is in the heart of the beholder.
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Mad Poster
#4 Old 28th Feb 2017 at 6:15 PM
Cats should have a want to sleep on X surface, and sit on X surface. I know they don't have many options, but seems like cats try to sleep in as many places as possible. And the want should have two versions, regular and "sleep/sit in X that's bathed in sunlight" which gives more points.

Dogs should have wants for a certain Sim to enter the room, or be in the room. Wants with extra points to sleep in the same room as a Sim reading, or watching TV. A want to sleep in a bed belonging to their favorite Sim.

On a less theoretical level wants for things that already happen in game

Cat wants
- Play with cat nip mouse toy
- Demolish cat nip mouse toy
- Play with wall-mounted bird
- Scratch furniture
- Scratch cat tree
- Get clean
- Stalk aquarium fish or caged bird
- Sleep

Dogs wants
- Chew bone
- Learn X command (if intelligent or friendly)
- Run in circles chasing tail
- Bark

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Alchemist
#5 Old 28th Feb 2017 at 6:38 PM
Wants
Go for a walk
Meet someone new
Get new toy
Car Ride

Fears
Be hugged by toddler (Cats)
Get put up for adoption
X is put up for adoption (also a want to see pets they don't like be given away)
X runs away
Owner goes to work/vacation
Mad Poster
Original Poster
#6 Old 1st Mar 2017 at 1:54 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Peni Griffin
Have you ever looked at their interests? My favorite is "scary things."


Yeah. XD It's such a pity that they don't seem to be used for anything.
Scholar
#7 Old 1st Mar 2017 at 3:24 AM
@Rosebine Def my dog

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Field Researcher
#8 Old 1st Mar 2017 at 9:40 AM
Dog:
- Play fetch
- Play fetch
- Play fetch
- Play fetch
- ...
Mad Poster
#9 Old 1st Mar 2017 at 10:50 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Charity
Yeah. XD It's such a pity that they don't seem to be used for anything.


They come up in their dreams And they react to them.

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Original Poster
#10 Old 1st Mar 2017 at 12:53 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Raindrop_D
Dog:
- Play fetch
- Play fetch
- Play fetch
- Play fetch
- ...


Haha, you mustn't forget eat human food. XD

Quote: Originally posted by simsfreq
They come up in their dreams And they react to them.


React to them?
Scholar
#11 Old 4th Mar 2017 at 10:06 PM
Pet Aspirations

Fortune

Common wants:
Get a job
Get promoted
Learn [command needed to get promotion[/b]

Common fears:
Lose job
Get demoted
Repo man! (Cats and dogs don't understand money, but I assume they'd understand someone trying to take away their things)

Knowledge

Common wants
Learn (any command)
Chase butterflies/fireflies/have other experience only possible occasionally
Master/Mine becomes (supernatural state)

Common fears
Scolded for (behaviour)
Master/Mine loses a skill point
Master/Mine cured of (supernatural state)

Family

Common wants
Have kitten/puppy
Met (child of Master/Mine)
(Pet or Child of Master/Mine) grows up well

Common fears
(Pet) taken away
(Pet) runs away
(Child of Master/Mine or pet) grows up badly (not sure if it's even possible for a pet to grow up badly...)

Romance

Common wants
Made Best Friend/Packmate
WooHoo with (Pet)
Have Bath

Common fears
Lost Best Friend/Packmate
Rejected for WooHoo with (Pet)
Stinky

Pleasure

Common wants:
Play game with (Pet/Sim)
Be treated kindly by (Sim)
Sit on (Sim surface/pet surface)

Common fears:
Be chased
Be barked/yowled at
Be uncomfortable

Popularity

Common wants:
Met new (Sim/Pet)
Made new friend
Have X simultaneous friends

Common fears:
Attend bad party (pets can't host them but their Sims can...)
Met skunk
Lost friend

Grilled cheese:

Common wants:
Eat grilled cheese flavour pet food (which only owners of grilled cheese pets would be able to put out)/grilled cheese leftovers
Dream of grilled cheese flavour pet food
Be full of food

Common fears:
Empty pet food bowl
Eat boring pet food
Be hungry
Forum Resident
#12 Old 6th Mar 2017 at 12:52 AM
Fear: Owner posts pic of me on a cat/dog-shaming site.
Instructor
#13 Old 6th Mar 2017 at 9:12 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Raindrop_D
Dog:
- Play fetch
- Play fetch
- Play fetch
- Play fetch
- ...


Cat:
- Sleep
- Sleep
- Sleep
- Sleep
- Be fed
- Sleep
- Sleep
- Sleep

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Top Secret Researcher
#14 Old 6th Mar 2017 at 9:18 PM
Cat: stare out window. (Mine does that ALL DAY.)
Mad Poster
#15 Old 6th Mar 2017 at 9:20 PM
I would edit that to read: Cat: Sleep (in the most comfy place available).
Mad Poster
#16 Old 6th Mar 2017 at 10:32 PM
Cat: Sit on sofa and watch TV
Dog: Destroy sofa where cat is sitting
Mad Poster
Original Poster
#17 Old 7th Mar 2017 at 3:03 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Justpetro
I would edit that to read: Cat: Sleep (in the most comfy place available).


Cat: Sleep (in the place that will inconvenience the human most). XD
Inventor
#18 Old 7th Mar 2017 at 3:38 AM
I can see this being a cat's want and a dog's want or fear, like how Sims pull pranks on others and might get a positive or a negative reaction depending on level of friendship.

Cat scares dog off table.

Too bad neither animal can relax on a dining room table (unless cats can and I haven't witnessed it yet ).
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Mad Poster
Original Poster
#19 Old 7th Mar 2017 at 3:41 AM
I've seen counters for cats, but I've never seen them on a table.
Mad Poster
#20 Old 7th Mar 2017 at 6:16 AM
Cat want: Blame the dog

Ugly is in the heart of the beholder.
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Mad Poster
#21 Old 7th Mar 2017 at 3:08 PM
Dog wants:
Sleep in toddler's bed.
Eat toddler's food.
Learn toddler behaviors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_zW6APE1qQ
Scholar
#22 Old 7th Mar 2017 at 3:23 PM
A cats most important daily want/mission:

Successfully annoy the crap out of human. Get in their way. Make them trip. Destroy their stuff. Wave my butt in front of that square thing they stare at all day. Puke on the floor. Cook up a good stink in litterbox and then fling litter like confetti. Meow at night like a fruitcake. Jump on humans head.

At least, this is the checklist my cat sticks to religiously.


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Truth will not fear scrutiny.
Field Researcher
#23 Old 12th Mar 2017 at 5:52 AM
Not really wants or fears, but this made me think of other interactions I wish were included in the game for pets. I always thought it would be cool to have things like pests besides roaches, like rats, and one way to get rid of them would be having a cat, the more active the better. Or if the burglar came and you had a dog, it would bark and chase the burglar off, again the more aggressive the dog, the more likely/effective it would be.
Mad Poster
#24 Old 12th Mar 2017 at 7:04 AM
In sims 3 they did have wants. I don't remember any of the cat/dog ones, but horses wanted to "lick salt" and "eat carrots" a lot.
Mad Poster
#25 Old 12th Mar 2017 at 5:50 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Rosawyn
In sims 3 they did have wants. I don't remember any of the cat/dog ones, but horses wanted to "lick salt" and "eat carrots" a lot.


In the Sims 3, I remember one of my sim's cats wanting to shred furniture. It made me wish that pets in TS2 had wants.

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