More Awesome Than You!

So, in the current story I'm working on, I wanted a scene with some wolves howling. I know I'd used this interaction before and it had worked fine. This latest time I went to do it, though, and the wolf would go up to the sim and try and play razzle instead.

Thinking this might be a hack/mod conflict, I pulled my downloads folder and tried again. Made the wolf controllable, clicked on a sim, chose the 'howl' action, and the wolf went right up to them and tried to play razzle.

WTF. Somewhere between Seasons and Apartment Life, this interaction got broken. Unfortunately, I've never been able to find a pet animation hack that works for both cats and dogs, so as far as I can tell, I have no option to get these dogs/wolves to howl.

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?