| Lynx household | |
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| Description | |
| Cats in the neighborhood know where to go for a good meal. Catarina's always had a soft spot for animals, and the cats she lives with have the best home a cat could ask for. Sometimes Catarina asks herself if there's something more to life than cats... usually right before she adopts another stray. | |
| Name | Lynx household |
| Members | Catarina Lynx, Doc, Cleo, Josie, Bartholomew A. Bittlebun, Jr. |
| Number of generations | 1 generation |
| Lot | Catscratch Cottage |
| Funds | §8,009 |
| Other information | |
| Game | The Sims 4: Cats & Dogs
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| Playability | Playable |
| World | Brindleton Bay |
The Lynx household is a pre-made playable household residing in Brindleton Bay, the world shipped with The Sims 4: Cats & Dogs. It consists of Catarina and her four cats: Doc, Cleo, Josie, and Bartholomew A. Bittlebun, Jr..
Catarina seems to be a spoof of the cat lady stock character, who are usually depicted as middle-aged or elderly women with many pet cats. She also shares similarities with the Kat family from The Sims: Unleashed and The Sims 2: Pets, such as living alone, owning multiple cats, having no family tree connections, being shipped with their respective games' pets expansion, and having cat-related names.
Onomatology
- Lynx: A genus of medium-sized wild cats, which includes the bobcat.
- Catarina: Portuguese variant of Katherine, which has several possible origins in Ancient Greek.
- Doc: Short for "doctor".
- Cleo: Diminutive of Cleopatra, the name of several queens in Ancient Egypt.
- Josie: Diminutive of Josephine, feminine form of Joseph, which in turn was derived from the Hebrew name Yosef, meaning "he will add".
- Bartholomew: Means "son of Talmai" in Hebrew. The name was probably chosen because it has "mew" in it, a sound a cat makes.
