Honestly, if the families themselves were just a little less obsessed with their pets, I wouldn't hate that either. Hardly any point in buying them fun-making goodies at all if all they ever wanna do is razzle and cat teaser.
TJ has a No Pet Obsession, it's been updated for FT.
*makes loud and plentiful sheep noises*
Thanks, morriganrant, a lot. After installing, the family still seems to be diving straight for the pets whenever they have a moment's down time, but I just had a party of 6 guests, and they actually behaved like, well, party guests! Okay, half of them were just *dying* to clean the dirty pet bed in the master bedroom (weirdos), but aside from the pet-initiated interactions, they actually had to resort to talking to each other, dancing, and so-forth. Wacky!