Pet Trait
A cat demonstrates the "Aggressive" Trait via action in Create-A-Pet for The Sims 3: Pets (console).
Pets from The Sims 3: Pets have their own unique traits that are not available to Sims. On the other hand, traits for Sims are not available to pets either. There is a total of 30 pet traits. Pet traits can be unique to one or two species, or can be shared by all three species of pet. For example, Agile is a horse-only trait, Loyal is a dog-only trait, Skittish is a cat and dog trait, and Playful is a trait for all three kinds of pet.
Pet traits, like Sim traits, work by defining a pet's personality and fitting the pet's reactions to it. After picking three traits for a pet, the player can train behaviors so a pet can develop a "trained" trait.
Trained traits[]
Pets can learn some traits by performing activities related to those traits, and Sims can boost this by scolding or praising the pet for doing those things. A pet who has been trained well enough can develop a "trained" trait, which is marked by a highlighted green box around the trait icon. Trained traits can be lost if a Sim trains their pet in the opposite behaviors. Trained traits make it possible for a pet to have more than 5 traits. If testingcheatsenabled true is on and you shift click a pet and choose "Change traits of active Sim", you'll be able to give them five traits instead of three, as they forgot to set this limitation when using cheats. In total, pets can have up to ten traits by training and cheats.
List of pet traits[]
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Trivia[]
- Since horses are not featured in The Sims 3: Pets (console), all pet traits that are exclusive to horses are not available on the console version.
- Pets created in CAS can have up to 3 traits, If the player buys the Attitude Adjustment Lifetime reward or uses cheats they can add 2 more traits, in which the number of traits is 5. Pets can then still learn traits by training for a maximum of 10 traits.
- If a pet with more than 5 traits moves to another world, they will lose all their "trained" traits. Only the first 5 traits on the pet's bio list will still remain.
- Pets can give other pets traits if the other pet is around them for a long period of time. They can also lose traits if they are scolded on an action that is a part of one of their traits characteristics a few times, and praising them enough times will give them a trait that corresponds with the action that they are being praised for.