More Awesome Than You!

Okay, seriously. Leave the damn cats alone. Stop throwing them in the air and picking them up when they are going to eat. I gave you guys videogames, a pinball machine, a hot tub, and everything else, but you are still freaking obsessed with the cats.

Pescado, I beg you. Make them quit fucking with the pets. I mean, some autonomous love is okay, but I doubt any animal wants to be constantly thrown up in the air like that. Honestly, if some asshat came over to my house and started throwing MY cats around, I would have to kill them.

I just love it when the babies throw up on the idiot who tosses them in the air :) Maybe the hack can include a serious scratching (or just the throw up interaction) which is what they would really get!

It is already on the big queue of stuff I have to fix.

Hmmm, my sims do get bitten when they perform the 'Play . . . Wiggle Fingers' interaction with the cats. Heh, it serves them right! I understand the annoyance, though. It was very irritating when the welcome wagon showed up at the catlady's house and the neighbours kept pestering her cats. My cats normally just hide from visitors. Run away!!!!!! Run awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!!

Ahem, sorry. Must be channelling Monty Python or something  ;)

EDIT: fixed stupid typo.

If visitors tried pestering my cat, their bodies would never be found. My cat is a vicious killer. We're talking about an animal that's not content to merely eat its food....it has to entirely disappear the food, murdering it in stealth and making it utterly disappear. I have never found the bodies. NORMAL cats bring back their kills to show them to you. Not my cat. My cat murders in secret and makes sure the bodies are never found. I've had several distinctive-looking rats disappear completely and without a trace. Although I can't prove it, I blame the cat. I don't actually feed him and expect him to eat the rats, but I've never found a body. Not even the bones. They just disappear. My cat is a killer. I approve.

Sounds like a real little cutie you've got there. Mind you, most cats I know get rather animated at food time especially when they have food they can rip apart and shred - very good for keeping their teeth clean  :P.

I have never seen him eat anything other than what I give him. And I don't give him much, only when I'm trying to induce him to do something. I certainly don't actually feed him for food purposes. But I still have never seen him eat. My *DOG* eats with great gusto and leaves evidence of having eaten. My cat has never been observed to eat anything. Those rats just vanish without a trace. They're probably sitting in the bottom of the septic tank, skeletized and wearing cement shoes. I've never even so much as heard a ratly death shriek from something he may have eaten. They just disappear. It's not at all like the rats my dog has been into, which shriek quite animately as they're mauled to death by a hyperactive terrier.

I only WISH my cats would 'disappear' their prey. I once found a skinned mouse in my shoe. Ewwwwww!!!!

Better a mouse in your shoe, than a disembowled squirrel on your PILLOW!!! UGH! I have a jack-russel terrier that likes to leave me such nice "gifts".

Wow. You have a cat? Seriously? I would've figured you were the type to hate animals, especially potentially cute, cuddly pet types. Pythons, I could see. Cats - I never would've guessed.

He has a cat, imaginatively named Cat, and a dog.  Guess what the dog's name is?

My cat has left a couple of birds for me.  She's far too superior to actually eat these birds though, she just kills them and leaves them where I'm sure to eat them.  Luckily for her, she's never left them in my bed.

My cats usually catch the mice, drool on them and leave the whole carcass in a doorway where we can find it and congratulate them on their exemplary hunting skills.

The last time, though, one of them was hungry because he ate the mousy back end and left the rest of it on my office chair. 

Husband had a cat (named Nuisance) that used to kill RABBITS for him. Would wait for him to come home with the rabbit in his teeth.

Panda?

Yes, but I didn't realise it was in my shoe until I put my foot inside. Needless to say, I promptly bleached my foot. Still, I felt reasonably safe wearing the shoe again after washing it several times in hot water. I think I'd have to buy a new pillow after finding a gutted squirrel on it. OK, you win the nasty pet-gift contest. Bleurgh!

If someone tried throwing my cat around, I don't think he'd kill them, but he WOULD remove their hand with surgical precision.

Many years ago, one of our cats left a LIVE mouse in my father's work boot. (We kids nearly busted our guts trying not to laugh.)

My daughter's cat left an eviscerated mouse on her windshield the other morning, which she had to clean up before driving to work.

I've "owned" cats for over 50 years, I have a million disgusting stories.

ya my cats bring me gifts too - mice, moles, birds, snakes, rabbits, chipmunks, squirrals(sp?) and 1 time a bat  ::)

Yeah, that's why I'm saying my cat is unusual. He doesn't bring gifts. He murders in secret and makes sure the bodies are never found. Somehow I knew this cat was the one for me when he ripped off my face as a kitten.

You know I have a couple of nice recipes I could let you borrow if you are interested?


*yes I suppose birdie crumbs in the bed would be kinda annoying...

I had one of those mystery killer cats, too. I once saw her with a mouse tail hanging out of her mouth and she just slupped it up like spaghetti. That was the only time she was observed, though.

I've also heard stories of cats that lead double lives, having two "owners" that they arbitrarily move between, each owner thinking their cat is simply outside somewhere, when, in fact, it is with the other owner.

more like two-timing pussies    :D

I had a cat with two homes, she was out all day and never ate at home. After a while I found out that she spent the days at a house a few hundred meters from us, apparantly they had better food...

something I noticed in the game (not sure if its been mentioned)......

in training the cat, there's an option to "teach use toilet"

I noticed if it was a non-Maxis toilet, the command would fall out of queue

so I replaced it with a Maxis toilet and it worked with that
(the cat learned to do like that cat Mr Jiggs in the movie Meet The Parents)

 :-\

I think the male cat my family used to have was living a double life like that.  He'd sometimes be gone for weeks and then come back home and not recognize us.  He was still a pretty darn good cat.  Better than those good-for-nuthin' females; one was raised to distrust people and scratched hell out of them, the other was the equivalent of an airhead.   ::)

This dog my family has now, hoo boy.  She really has personality!   ;D

All the more reason to download the dreaded Kitten Killer!!  Unfaithful, two timin', no good varmits!   ;)

I seriously debated installing pets not because they annoy me (I think it is a nice addition) but because of the way Sims wants will revolve completely around the latest expansion.  I still remember all my houses having entire bands in their homes after uni.

Sure enough, I was right.  I did a complete reinstall of all expansions with no saved neighborhoods/no mods and started up PV.  I always place Jennifer and John Burb first and typically she wants 100k or top of business.  He usually wants golden anniversary or graduate 3 kids.  But this time - Jenn wants the 6 pets to reach the top of their career, John wants to raise puppies or kittens instead of kids and even Lucy wants to buy a wombat cage.  No wants whatsoever about each other, getting jobs or even the usual 1st buys of the stuff they need in their empty house.  The LTWs are bad enough but the DAILY wants too!?!

I played them a sim week and ALL their wants were play with, scold, teach, become master of stupid pet.  They are not even friends with each other because they spend all their time filling wants about the dogs (I merged in the premade 2 after I saw their LTWs) so they don't go into aspiration failure.

A mod is desperately in order.  I just don't understand why the want trees always have to be based on one expansion regardless of what plans you have for a family.

Are you actually trying to fulfill these wants?  If so, stop it, you're only encouraging them to generate more pet wants.  Ignore the wants you don't like and they will eventually roll something else.  Or try the Reroll Wants function on the Lot Debugger. 

Karen

you were a kitten once?? :-\

I do that too.  I feel weird giving names to animals (in real life, that is) so I just call my cat, Kitty or Kitty Baby.  I had a rabbit as a kid and I just called it Bunny (that was mostly because I was stupid and did not know there was a difference between the two).

I have a killer cat, too, named Phillip.  The only things I have seen him eat are houseflies that he leaps through the air to catch.  He lives off what he hunts, so there must be more!  When he sees prey, he makes his hunting noise, which is disturbingly like the sound a rattlesnake makes.  I almost peed my pants the first time I heard him make it.  One of his spawn makes the same noise while watching birds through the windows, but doesn't go outside much; he's quite the pansy.  Phillip will occasionally deign to let you pet him, but if you touch him below the neck, he will take your hand off.  The first time my boyfriend spent the night, Phillip shat upon his pillow.  I thought I would die laughing.  ;D

Here's (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=5848.msg169148#msg169148) my attempt to nerf the pet obsession. Seems to be working well for me so far.

TJ you are a god  :D

now this sounds like a lifesaving hack!!  thank you thank you  ;D

My cat would remove their arms and probably parts of the face.  Well, the big cat would.  The little one would just fart in their face. 

On the subject of prey, though, cats eat the entire thing in my experience, so there would be nothing left.  My cat used to bring stuff home to show me before he ate it, but he never left any evidence when he was done eating unless it was a rabbit.  He never could finish the rabbits.  He'd start at the head and stop at about the waist.  I threw away a lot of rabbit-butts when he was an outdoor cat.

Some passerby made my sim cat vomit by tossing it in the air, but it didn't vomit on the culprit like toddlers do. Grossly unfair.

And he's not your EX-boyfriend? The man's a saint. Keep him.

The daily wants should match their lifetime aspiration and their regular aspiration.  It worked out well for Cassandra.  She wanted to raise 6 puppies and kittens.  She was constantly rolling wants to adopt kittens and puppies.  She will be done in a few days.  It was especially good since she had probs getting pregnant.  I had to hold that want for a long time.  It also kept Don out of the red.  He rolled enough pets wants to keep him out of aspiration failure.  But,wealth???They would care less.  The only pet the Burbs have is a bird that is helping Jennifer gain charisma.  She isn't rolling  many animal wants.  I think that when I  get back to my real game that I'm going to have strict rules on who can have pets.

It doesn't even leave a dirt pile or anything like that when a cat has vomited on the bloody expensive Persian rug.
Dunno why, but that disappointed me.

Not as much as Cassandra's wants freaked me - adopting a kitten at first, then rolling the want to sell it right away.
Hello?!

Yes, he is now my babydaddy, thankyou!