Breeding

If you want more little bundles of fur running around your house, you might want to consider breeding your pets. But remember, each pet will take up a family slot, and you can only have a total of eight pets and people in one house. Obviously, the basic thing you need is two pets of the same species and different sexes. But you can't just make them breed on command, and just like people they will need to get to know each other. If they misbehave with one another, use 'Scold' so they learn to get along.

In The Sims: Unleashed, you will eventually get a message asking if you want to go through with the breeding process. Just like having a Sim baby, a new item appears, and you will have a little maternity tent where your dog or cat mommy-to-be will be staying for the next few days. You don't have to take care of the puppy or kitten, but you do have to take care of the mother, since her mood will reflect on her baby. Unhappy mothers will neglect the puppy or kitten, in which case Animal Control will come to take it away.

In The Sims 2 a pet house is required, then a Sim has the option to command a pet to try to have puppies/kittens with another pet. The Sim must have a good relationship with the selected pet to successfully command it, as well as the pets. If successful, the two pets will go into a pet house and woohoo. If the female pet is pregnant the player will hear the same music that chimes when a Sim conceives.

Pregnant female pets show little noticeable signs of pregnancy, and can go to work as normal. They give birth after three days like Sims. Pets can produce a litter of up to 4 puppies or kittens.

You also have the options of keeping your pet's offspring, or selling them. The simoleons earned by selling the litter is based on how well trained your pet is. More training equals more simoleons!

Notes & Tips

 * Having only one pet bed in the house is a strategy used to force them to snuggle in the same one, something that will give their relationship a big boost.
 * Both pets do not need to be owned by the Sim