Is there any benefit to being a doofus?

[jsalemi]

Once they reach maximum playfulness, they gain a crapload of new commands too, like "Play with other pet", "Run around crazily", "Pounce at sim" and so on. Makes getting your pets to be friends easier, because you can just get one to play with the others to get the relationship score up.

I missed that -- thanks for pointing it out!

[Sleepycat]

I just put the pet control and action cancel cheats in my userstartup file.

I rarely direct my pets to do anything (except at first so they will become friends faster) but I like knowing I can tell them what to do when I want to 

[J. M. Pescado]

Running around crazily was "disruptive". However, having to COMMAND them to run around crazily is very purpose-defeating.

[Nepheris]

I've got a genious, agressive cat who's got a strong relationship to the female sim of the household. She used to live alone and adopted him (He'sa former stray called Grimalkin, not bad for a game that issues townies called 'Goopy'), then after a while married a male sim.

He can't stand the guy :p He's always pouncing him and trying to eat his food, it's rather hilarious. One of the nicer side-effects of the 'mine' stamp, or just a game coincidence, I don't know, but if this cat was a sim he'd be an Evil Mastermind.

Anyway, while he's a genious he still runs around crazily a lot. As in, almost 70 % of the time. I think that's really got more to do with hyperactive/lazy than with genious/doofus.

[Dragon Slave]

Traits don't have to be advantageous to serve a purpose.  They're there to imitate the personality differences that seperate individuals, both human and animal, in real life.  It'd seem pretty lame if every dog or cat acted exactly the same...if they were all smart, or clean, whatever.  Sure, it'd be less of a hassel, but you'd lose all the character that these traits bring.  The variation is amusing.

[astraled]

(He'sa former stray called Grimalkin, not bad for a game that issues townies called 'Goopy')

Grimalkin is Old English for cat (and is actually the name of former cat of mine). So, naturally, my game names a freaking *dog* Grimalkin.   My "yay" quickly turned to a D'oh!

[Velax]

I missed that -- thanks for pointing it out!

No probs.

I wish I could tell my cat in real life to pounce at people.....oh, the fun we could have.

[miros]

Discretely anoint the visitors' knees with catnip oil.  You'll see pouncing!

[buddha pest]

I just put the pet control and action cancel cheats in my userstartup file.

What is the full name of the action cancel one?

I never get it right, and I can't find it when i type "help" either.

[jsalemi]

boolprop ControlPets on/off

boolprop petActionCancel true/false

[Velax]

Discretely anoint the visitors' knees with catnip oil.  You'll see pouncing!

My cat never seemed that overjoyed with catnip.....perhaps because she was getting on a bit when we tried it with her.

[Swiftgold]

Discretely anoint the visitors' knees with catnip oil.  You'll see pouncing!

My cat never seemed that overjoyed with catnip.....perhaps because she was getting on a bit when we tried it with her.

I think there's a certain percentage of cats who just aren't affected by catnip. Mine all seem to be, though; helps to get them to use the scratching box instead of my bed, phew.