Ever since the announcement of The Sims 4 Cats & Dogs simmers have been wondering how pet aging would function and what options for aging will we get in the game.
SimGuruSarah answered a few questions regarding pet aging, explaining that Cats and Dogs will age naturally (without an option to age them up manually using the birthday cake) and that pet aging options will go along with sim aging options. If, for example, you choose to disable aging for Sims you’ll also be disabling the aging process for your pets as well.
If you disable aging for your Sims then it will also disable aging for Cats & Dogs.
— Sarah Holding (@SimGuruSarah) October 10, 2017
You cannot manually age Pets up. They will age naturally.
— Sarah Holding (@SimGuruSarah) October 10, 2017
18 Comments
So would this mean you can’t age up your pets without turning on the auto age settings for sims? That’s ridiculous. What if I want my pets to age but I don’t want my sims to age? I hope there’s a separate option for them. I don’t have twitter, so if someone could tweet a Guru about this I’d be grateful.
Reply to Coco
i could try and ask for you lol
Reply to Coco
I’m sure MCCC will figure something out xD
Reply to Coco
I read somewhere else that if you get your vetrinarian skill up to a certain level you can create an age up treat on the Dr Magi Heal medicine craftomatic machine.
Reply to Stephanie Iglesias
I just did it. Once you get to level 6 veterinary skill, you can craft an age up treat. 🙂
well that’s annoying, since I play with aging off (because the ages are either waaaay to short or wayyy too long with no in between…) i want to choose when the animals age ): this sucks.
I’m so relieved. I don’t want my pets to die. I just lost my beloved cat of 18 years. I can’t bear experiencing it again in The Sims. It would be nice if pets had their own aging options, though, so my Sims could age but have an immortal pet.
It has recently clarified that you can age your pet using a vet treat from the clinic or the sim owner can make that treat if a simmer is playing with aging off but wants to age up their pet.
Just so you know the Gurus said there’s a treat (like the birthday cake) that you can either buy from a vending machine OR make yourself to age up or down the pet.
So would this mean you can’t age up your pets without turning on the auto age settings for sims? That’s ridiculous. What if I want my pets to age but I don’t want my sims to age? I hope there’s a separate option for them. I don’t have twitter, so if someone could tweet a Guru about this I’d be grateful.
Reply to Coco
I read somewhere else that if you get your vetrinarian skill up to a certain level you can create an age up treat on the Dr Magi Heal medicine craftomatic machine.
Reply to Stephanie Iglesias
I just did it. Once you get to level 6 veterinary skill, you can craft an age up treat. 🙂
Reply to Coco
i could try and ask for you lol
Reply to Coco
I’m sure MCCC will figure something out xD
It has recently clarified that you can age your pet using a vet treat from the clinic or the sim owner can make that treat if a simmer is playing with aging off but wants to age up their pet.
I’m so relieved. I don’t want my pets to die. I just lost my beloved cat of 18 years. I can’t bear experiencing it again in The Sims. It would be nice if pets had their own aging options, though, so my Sims could age but have an immortal pet.
well that’s annoying, since I play with aging off (because the ages are either waaaay to short or wayyy too long with no in between…) i want to choose when the animals age ): this sucks.
Just so you know the Gurus said there’s a treat (like the birthday cake) that you can either buy from a vending machine OR make yourself to age up or down the pet.
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