The Sims Team has just completed their final livestream for The Sims 4 Cats & Dogs Expansion Pack, showing off new content and features in Live Mode, Build Mode and Brindleton Bay. Check out all the important facts below!
- Cavalier Cove is a residental neighborhood.
- It’s inspired by Gilmore Girls.
- It focuses more on dogs and gives you more space to walk your dogs around.
- Shift + C unlocks more manipulation points on roofs.
- Turning off aging for Sims will turn off aging for Pets as well.
- There’s a whistle icon on the bottom which will call your Cat / Dog over to your Sim.
- Toddlers won’t crawl through the doggy doors but they will be able to walk through them.
- Butlers from The Sims 4 Vintage Glamour Stuff can take care of pets.
- Filling the pet food bowl, cleaning the litter box and other pet responsibility actions towards pets will level up your Character Values from The Sims 4 Parenthood Game Pack (must have the pack).
- Cats can climb on counters and eat from there.
- Dogs can swim in pools but cats cannot.
- Pets can be sprayed by skunks after running away.
- Pets will be taken away by social services if you don’t feed them and you won’t be able to get them back.
- You can’t have all-Pet households – you must have at least one Sim in your household.
- Pets can chase seagulls.
- You can lock cat doors.
- Kittens and puppies won’t be able to go upstairs.
- You can click on the door and lock it to cats or dogs specifically or lock to all pets.
- You can sell a pet, put a pet up for adoption, adopt a cat (200 simoleons), dog (200 simoleons) and a child (1,000 simoleons)
- You can adopt up to 3 pets at once.
- You can play with pets and interact with them before deciding to adopt them for a 200 simoleon fee.
- There’s a cat dazzler (aka the duster) that you can use to play with cats.
- There are cat and dog calendars.
- There are 6 presets of the roomba cleaner.
- You can set the roomba cleaner to clean your house automatically.
- Cats and Dogs can eat from Sim plates and eat Sim food. Sims can yell at them for doing so.
- Sims can WooHoo and Try For Baby at the top of the lighthouse.
- There are ghost pets walking around the pet graveyard. You can also find them walking on the railing and sleeping on graves.
- There are no pet houses. However, you can build your own dog / cat house using the dog and cat doors.
- There are new lot traits such as Cat Friendly and Dog Friendly.
- There are no puppy and kitten strays.
- You need a bathtub to bathe your pets.
- Pets will run away if you’re mean to them, if they suffer traumatic experiences or if you just don’t feed them regularly.
- There are bridges in Brindleton Bay that go both over and under.
- Pets can get pregnant when they run away.
- You can instruct your pets to WooHoo.
- There’s a new Feather Collection. Once you collect all of them you get a special object.
- There are automatic pet feeders.
- There are plenty of cat beds.
- Pressing ” [ ” while having an object selected will make it smaller.
- Lot Traits: Breeding Ground, Cat Friendly, Cat Hangout, Dog Friendly, Dog Hangout, Training Ground.
- There are new club gathering rules which revolve around being friendly towards cats and being friendly towards dogs.
- There’s a mouse hole from The Sims 4 City Living that they’ve re-introduced in The Sims 4 Cats & Dogs. Cats will stare at it and wait for mice to come out.
- There are plenty of crates that cats can climb and jump onto.
- There are two new topiaries in a shape of a cat and a dog.
- You can train cats to make them stop from jumping onto things.
