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As I use this site as gospel for what could be going wrong....the issues are this: once my sim gets a job for her pet, and I click on the trained behaviors icon to review which ones the pet knows, the game crashes.  Interestingly enough, the game also crashes as soon as the pet returns from work.  I've already updated any aforementioned hacks, antiwatchout, phonehack, etc.  Any advice or suggestions?  Thanks in advance.

"Crash" meaning what?

It reads ".....blah, blah, blah....application will now terminate", then screen freeze.  The only way I cant get out of it is to use ctrl, alt, delete. 

Your sims and/or their lots are corrupted, more than likely. My suggestion is to move out sims and bulldoze the affected lots.

I have the same problem kinda.  Not so severe because my game doesn't crash just goes into a pause mode like when you are generating townies or something.  And this happens on all lots in brand new hoods too.  Think there is something buggy about when Fido gets home from work.  Not sure what the game is trying to "think" of but it definitely has to pause a sec to figure something out.

Its simple maxis/EA had screwed the pooch so yeah

The lag is normal, poorly designed, but normal. At least when the pets get promotions. They game takes time to 'unlock' those hidden pet coats and collars. It's probably generating a thumbnail and god only knows what else.