Dogs, maids, tubs and beds.

[Digital Femme]

It seems as though the pets and NPCs in my game can't use some of my old custom objects. For the most part, this isn't a problem. I don't want animals climbing all over the furniture anyway. Still, I would like for my Sim to be able to wash his dog without having to buy a new tub each time he does it. How can I update a tub for The Sims 2: Pets?

Also, this isn't a big deal to me, but maids won't make custom beds.

And finally, is it normal for a pet to forget all its training once it steps on a community lot? One of my sims has a dog that's a perfect angel at home, but loses its damn mind everywhere else. Eating flowers, running around crazily, snapping at strangers...the works! And yet the dog has full green bars for all of the appropriate learned behaviors. I don't get it.

ETA: I hate the wolves so very much. All they do is upset every dog in the neighborhood. Sadly, the no strays patch doesn't work on them either. I really wish I could get them from showing up. My sims live in a major city! Hell, I've never seen a wolf just hanging out in Brooklyn, so why are they wandering around brownstones in my game? Arrrgh!

[Katze]

ETA: I hate the wolves so very much. All they do is upset every dog in the neighborhood. Sadly, the no strays patch doesn't work on them either. I really wish I could get them from showing up. My sims live in a major city! Hell, I've never seen a wolf just hanging out in Brooklyn, so why are they wandering around brownstones in my game? Arrrgh!

I'm sure with twojeffs visitor controller you can ban wolfs from your lot.
You can get it here.
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,2271.0.html

[Annette]

 Actually I'm waiting for some bright creator to make a pet usable tin washtub. I don't really want to wash the dog inside, using the same tub the family uses. No one I know with dogs does that.
Having to rearrange my houses so the tub is dog accessible is a pain too.

[Karen]

Actually I'm waiting for some bright creator to make a pet usable tin washtub. I don't really want to wash the dog inside, using the same tub the family uses. No one I know with dogs does that.
Having to rearrange my houses so the tub is dog accessible is a pain too.

Check out Inge's pet-only version of the wooden tub at http://simlogical.com/dinnerbell/index.php?topic=98.0

[SilentDream]

Actually I'm waiting for some bright creator to make a pet usable tin washtub. I don't really want to wash the dog inside, using the same tub the family uses. No one I know with dogs does that.
Having to rearrange my houses so the tub is dog accessible is a pain too.

Actually, my family does. We have three "small" dogs (at least by maxisEA terms). One just happens to be half the size of the other two. Then again the dogs all sleep in my bed with me too.

[Mizz Rose Bud]

DJS Sims have a tool, you can use to update your own downloads ... I don´t know how it works thoug, haven´t used it yet
http://www.djssims.com/index.php?category=21

Rose

[Strangel]

Actually I'm waiting for some bright creator to make a pet usable tin washtub. I don't really want to wash the dog inside, using the same tub the family uses. No one I know with dogs does that.
Having to rearrange my houses so the tub is dog accessible is a pain too.

We did.. in various years, we had a german shepherd police dog, a papered dalmation, several large mutts and one Great Pyr (big mistake, that.. lots o' hair in drain!).

[miros]

DJS Sims have a tool, you can use to update your own downloads ... I don´t know how it works thoug, haven´t used it yet
http://www.djssims.com/index.php?category=21

Rose

Doesn't work on bathtubs.  Maxis changed the mesh.

[Mizz Rose Bud]

Doesn't work on bathtubs.  Maxis changed the mesh.

Okay, I didn´t know ... oh well *sigh*

Rose

[ganymede]

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 Actually I'm waiting for some bright creator to make a pet usable tin washtub. I don't really want to wash the dog inside, using the same tub the family uses. No one I know with dogs does that.
Having to rearrange my houses so the tub is dog accessible is a pain too.

Same here. I've just been adding a standard tub outside or in the garage to every house with a dog, and it works just fine in getting the dog washed, and seems more realistic than messing up the Sims' bathrooms. Only 'glitch' I've had is that occasionally the Sim who just washed the dog will decide that bathing in the garage/outside will be just fine for him/her as well.

[Digital Femme]

Now that I think about it, I could have sworn that I saw pet grooming stations in the previews for Sims 2: Pets. What happened to those? That would pretty much solve the whole tub problem too.

[Orikes]

Now that I think about it, I could have sworn that I saw pet grooming stations in the previews for Sims 2: Pets. What happened to those? That would pretty much solve the whole tub problem too.

I think a couple of those were for the console version of the games, which was meant to be similar to Nintendogs and a couple of other games like that. Not for the PC version we all play.

[jsalemi]

Only 'glitch' I've had is that occasionally the Sim who just washed the dog will decide that bathing in the garage/outside will be just fine for him/her as well.

That's why you should get Inge's pets-only bathtub, mentioned a few messages above.

[blubug]

I haven't been playing for very long, what does the wolf look like, is it a brown dog with flourescent yellow eyes? Because a dog like that comes around a lot to a couple of my sim houses, my simmies like to play with it too.

[Andygal]

Yes, that's the Leader of the Pack.

[blubug]

Ooooh! I would have imagined some different interactions with them. But then again, my sim doesn't socialise enough to get bitten. I'm relieved.

[Jack Rudd]

"No strays" patches will not work on wolves because wolves are not strays; they are in fact NPCs.

[Annette]

Thanks Karen for that link, it's a good start  Thanks Inge for allowing non registered people to download 

[jsalemi]

"No strays" patches will not work on wolves because wolves are not strays; they are in fact NPCs.

And there's more than one wolf, though there's only one LotP.  The wolves are kinda distinctive-looking.

[ganymede]

That's why you should get Inge's pets-only bathtub, mentioned a few messages above.

I did, but haven't used it yet. I don't have a real problem with Sims doing dumb things, so long as they aren't potentially dangerous. It usually just cracks me up.

[miros]

"No strays" patches will not work on wolves because wolves are not strays; they are in fact NPCs.

TwoJeffs' visitor controller will block strays, pets, wolves, and skunks.

[Gwill]

On the subject of bathing dogs, I'm not sure if people are aware of this; dogs can bathe in the craftable water wiggler from OFB.  They do it autonomously too, and have fun doing it.  I haven't bathed any of my last three generations of dogs.

[Annette]

That's a good tip Gwill, i have been neglecting the OFB stuff. A dog playing in the water wiggler would be pretty cute 

[J. M. Pescado]

Doesn't that leave puddles everywhere?

[dream_operator]

I believe that only the "evil" water wiggler spawns puddles, Pescado.  The normal ones don't.  That is how it is in my game anyway.

Dream