A guide revealing 18 different gameplay ideas or things to do which are made possible from The Sims 4 Cats and Dogs expansion pack. The aim of this guide is to help inspire your gameplay, and potentially consider some gameplay ideas you might not have thought about before. Please like and comment, and Subscribe here: bit.ly/2ZM0L4h
The gameplay ideas in this guide are wide ranging. Some, like using cat-related plants, visiting the lighthouse and the pet cemetery are small little side tasks. Others, such as running a vet clinic, being a pet artist or running a pet-themed retail store can form as the main premise of a sim's or a household's gameplay.
There are also ideas that will enrich your game as a whole, such as creating a stray animal wildlife park or a cat café community lot.
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with so many people disappointed in the lack of gameplay in the sims 4, your videos make me learn so much about existing gameplay features that I didn't know existed, and it makes me excited to play again and explore new things so thank you!
Aww this is so kind of you to say mckamy! Thank you so so much for the kind comment! And I'm glad you're discovering new things :).
i was thinking the same thing.
Same here! I usually just build but these videos are making me excited to actually play the game again
Same here!
i agree!! yes ea needs to add depth to a lot of features, but we underuse a lot of the ones we already have
I love to have a large family of sims through the generations and give them pets. It’s a bittersweet feeling to watch them grow up. Especially when a child sim grows up with a loving pet. In sims 3 I had a sim who loved her small dog more than anything but the dog later passed away as an elder. The most emotional moment was when the dog’s ghost layed down on her past owner’s bed who was now an elder. She passed away with the dog’s ghost laying next to her. I admit I cried.
I have a sim who rescues strays and sells them to other house holds. Since you can't actually sell them I'll take a picture of the animal and put it up for sale so when the picture is bought I move the animal into their household :)
That’s so creative!
great idea
That's adorable
Love the cat cafe idea!!!!
Cat cafe sounds amazing! I need to start building!!
Aww yay I'm so glad 🙌😊
Omg this is a wonderful idea! Looks like I have something to do this afternoon 🤗!
There’s an actual real life cat cafe somewhere I think
@@deematmok8156 there's probably plenty out there but they aren't very common... there's also a restuarant near where I live called the dog bar, it's an actual sports bar type restaurant that's meant for bringing your dog with you... I might do that, have a cat cafe for the cat lovers and a dog bar for the dog lovers...
As someone who struggles with playing/using Cats & Dogs, I like a lot of these ideas. Specifically the cat cafe. Didn’t even occur to me. I’m enjoying your videos! Subscribed :3
Awe shucks thank you so much for the support Eric! :)
One of my more involved gameplays involved creating a dog show event. I made a showroom, made the event on the calendar, and had a few people compete. The host then gave the winner a gift of $1000 and a fancy food bowl.
This is such a cool idea!!! :O :D
A Cat Cafe? I'd love to see you making one and showing us.
haha I refurbished one of the get together cafes for the video but yes sometime I should make one. I'm not a huge builder though!
@@PeteyPlaysIt Maybe not, but you are hella creative. You play this game very differently from how I play it and exactly that is what intrigues me. Plust your explanation videos are a must see for me. You know more about this game than I do, which makes you the perfect teacher. :)
you can also buy the woohoo bushes and your dog would randomly fight with it and you would get gifts and feathers
Never knew that!
@@maakkz glad i could help you!
WOW! I did not know about the feathers. When my Sims get them, I've always assumed they were just trash and threw them away. I love the mounted pictures they make. Thank you for all your videos. There's always something new or something never tried and you inspire me to play more. I usually get my kicks out of build mode. I also appreciate how your game plays aren't totally set around getting rich. Life is to enjoy, so let your Sims have some joy as well.
Thank you so much for this super kind message Louise :). I really appreciate it!
The feather collection is probably my favorite at the moment.
i really like these gameplay inspiration videos! maybe once you go through the different packs you could do some that are more theme based? the first thing that comes to my mind is food based ones. for example you could run a vineyard with mixology and juice fizzing, run a bunch of restaurants, unlock every recipe, play as a food critic with the city living career and actually eat at the dine out restaurants, run a farm, etc. edit: you could also start a restaurant that only serves poor quality pufferfish nigiri or sell fizzy juice made from the strangerville fruit and go the evil route lol
oh yay I'm so glad you're liking them! I'm definitely enjoying making them! and defs theme based content is something I'll be doing! thank you so much for the food based idea I think that's super cool. I have a few ideas lined up that are theme based but I'll add this in. I'm even thinking like x types of restaurants to make/ restaurant ideas could be awesome. just would take me a long time with a lot of building to make that video haha.
Great ideas as usual 💕 Since I love hearing gameplay ideas I thought I'd add one of my own... I have a sim who runs an animal shelter and adopts strays around Brindleton Bay. She has a vet skill high enough to make wellness treats and I have her work on training the dogs in her care too. When I have a sim from another household want to adopt a pet I take them there. I play rotationally and this works really well. Love your videos - thank you 💕
Sam I love this animal shelter idea so much! super cute and heart warming
That's such a good idea!
It is interesting that we always mourn about the lack of gameplay when it is probably us not seeing things.. Sims 4 gameplay is not as deep as Sims3, we know, but it has so many cool `hidden`features we can use to make it fun. Thank you for telling us all about it :)
I'm so glad I came across your channel! Thank you for making such fun and informative videos. It's so nice to see a variety of gameplay options and new ways to put things together- especially for packs that have been out for a while. Excuse me while I create a pet cafe!
Thank you so much Fluba for the super kind comment!! really appreciate and good luck with the cat cafe!
I had the pack since it came out and NEVER knew about the cemetery. Omg you are everything
I love the cat café idea 🤍 I feel like there is a lot of possibilities for gameplay, you just need to think outside the box. Keep up the good work!
I've had the pets expansion since it came out and never knew you could go to the light house!
My daughter and I were super excited to see this pack on sale the other day! Finally snatched it up!
I didnt know you could do so much things with cats and dogs
I was having an evil sim triying to be a criminal. Now that you give this ideas i can give it a dog to bite people!
Great to see your channel has grown since ive found it a few months ago. Very good content as always Pete.👍
You are one of my favorite Sims 4 creators to watch. So many items I've meant to use, but forget about when I'm busy leveling up my Sim's skills. Going to check out your community lots at the are so creative, practical for play, and full of various Sim experiences. Thanks so much!
Awe shucks thank you R ZWA :) Appreciate the super kind comment!
I'm going to open a animal shelter and find strays in the wild and nurse them and train them to do basic training and then move it into a family home :)
Or a pet breeder and train mainly rottweilers and German shepherds to max and they can be my and other people guard dogs
your videos are so helpfull we are always complaining about not having a lot things to do in the sims but it also because no one really read those tutorials lo so your video make learning about the gameplay more fun :)
you have the best gameplay ideas! and i didn't even know the feathers displayed so nicely!
Love this! I really didn’t do much with this pack, but now I probably will. Thanks!
If you have an adventurous dog you can go on adventures that are text base. I got really obsessed with solving the mystery of the ghost of the lighthouse Very Scooby-Doo and has buffs
That's so cool! I had no idea that this was a thing. thank you for sharing 😊
This sounds really cool! I didn't know that was possible. Thank you for sharing 😍
@@FirstNameLastName-ic1tn you have to have a dog with the adventurous trait but the family I discovered this on did live in that neighborhood
Love your videos. Been binging them for a couple days! So many great ideas 💡 👌
Hooray! Thanks Yayo I'm so glad that they've been helpful!
I love love love your videos! I have watched almost all of them, and there's so much that I didn't know about, thank you 😄
Awe shucks you're super welcome Snowflake 😄 I'm glad you've enjoyed them and learnt some new things 🙌
@@PeteyPlaysIt I did! 💕
Wow I never knew that you could interact with the lighthouse. I learn something new from your videos every time I watch them. :)
Oh my goodness, I would never have thought of so many of these!
One day I'm going to build that cat café I've been planning for a month 😄 There are still so many things I haven't done with pets, thanks for the ideas! I'm really tempted to make one of my existing sims a pet trainer now.
Thank you! Totally want to do this stuff ^^
What ! I had never noticed about the ligthhouse woohoo ! This is so cool hahaha
Ooooh, I SO want to build a cat cafe (or get one from the gallery)! That sounds AMAZING!
I really like the cat Cafe idea 😊
I LOVE THE CAT CAFE IDEA OMFG
Why have i never thought of a cat Cafe! this is why i love your videos! You are so smart!
Thank you for the kind comment Calypso!! Haha I don't think I'm all that smart really but I try!
Oh righttt cat cafe! Why didnt i think of that... Thank you for the tipss
How do you come up this stuff!? Your so creative!
Katarina 😊 Ahaha for these bigger ideas based videos I keep a big spreadsheet and I'm always adding stuff when I think of it into different themes. and then when I feel there's enough I do one final brainstorm and then script/make a video ☺
I love the cat cafe idea!
Some great ideas, I have hadsims adopt pets from Selvadorado too ( the world that came with Jungle pack) I love the feathers collection, they are so pretty and the owl is lovely 😊
Thanks so much Misty! Omg I am obsessed with the owl. A nice touch for the collection for sure!
that is so cute, l love the one is the cat cafe❤
Here is a gameplay idea: adopt ghost dogs from deadgrass isle and using the ambrosia treat to revive them and then use the age down treat to turn their age back to adult
very helpful thank you
I built my own cat cafe recently, it's super cute!
I want to go do this game play right now! 😍
These are realy nice👍🏻
Oh that’s why my cat brings feathers! Usually, I just put them in my inventory and sell them
I bought the Cats & Dogs game pack 2 days ago and I'm loving it! 😄I LOOOOVVEEE dogs 🐶 and I mostly play with 'em. As I watched through the video, I stumbled upon *The Cat Café,* 😺 so then I was thinking.. Since dogs are my favorite animal.. what if I made a Doggy Café! Amazing Idea's as I get suuuper bored while playing and I normally get soooooo bored that one time I made a Zoo with a Snake, a tiger, a Panda and a random dog and cat that I felt like putting in. I also love the breeding idea! ♥ Just to give you another idea, I was thinking about a Pet Shelter! Then you could add the Cat Friendly & Dog Friendly trait and it'd be amazing! Thanks again for these amazing, interesting and cool ideas! Subscribed! 😁 Sorry about this long paragraph. Just got a lil' carried away!! 😅
I just downloaded the game and the pets and it's the first time I'm trying it I have not played a Sims game in like 12 years. Your video is very helpful so thank you very much and have a beautiful blessed day
Oh my gosh Lilith thank you so much for the super kind comment! Hope you have the most amazing and beautiful day too!
@@PeteyPlaysIt Thank you very much too Petey the sweety
1:32 not the employee kissing Diego Lobo lolololol 😂🤣🤣
I have designed trainers/breeders. For example, I have a sim w a maxed out training skill, move a pet from another house to the trainers house and train with them. Then I move the pet back to the original owner once training is complete. I do the same with breeders. Send the pet to the breeders house, they breed, then send them back to the original owner with a puppy/kitten. Of course this isn't necessary, but it leads to some really interesting storylines & gameplay!
Of course, I subbed :)!!
Thank you for the support :)
I learn so much about "unkowed" things of the sims with your channel 😍
I like having my already aggressive dog attack paparazzi who won't leave and a bonus is if she does it on her own.
I have been a professional Dog breeder in game and have definitely made a Cat Cafe (or 4) in game.
I never knew you could do that with ur dogs and cats poo thx I’ll defo use that in the future
Rags to riches by animal breeding. 100 baby challenge but with pets. CAS players: create breeds of dogs/cats in game which aren't already part of the game
The cat cafe ♥️😻
I really like your videos.
Awe thank you so much Kierra!!
You need more subs!
Okay who knew about the feathers! 🪶
This came out on my bday
can you combine these? like your backyard could have an wild animal sanctuary while you work vet work and adopt out sick to healthy animals and being an artist painting every animal you adopt out
i came up with the idea of the 100 kitten/puppy challenge where you have one cat/dog have multiple litters of pets with different pets!!kind of like the 100 baby challenge
Hey 0:09 i never had this. I had always common sick
How do o add lot traits? Because I’ve tried to do this and it doesn’t seem to give me the option
Can a good cat cafe be done whit a pub lot?
I want to make savage wolves when I get the dlc.
I love the idea of a pet artist because I made a family of three a nice couple and the boyfriends brother the boyfriends brother is in high school, the boyfriend works as a police along side his dog Bruno, but I can’t hint what to do for the girlfriend so a pet artist is perfect thanks for the create idea
I’m not getting the option to buy a pet. And I bought the pack. Any ideas?
how do i feed my cat catnip? im companions with them. the catnip option exists but doesn't work
Cute designer
How can I bring my Sim and dog back home from the vet?
Now I‘ll become a german shepherd breeder and attack dog trainer. Hell yeeees
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Rings of fire?!
You know there are also dog cafes.
Can someone tell me how to get cats and dogs back on Xbox One. It just will not work
Brave beaver 45
Cute money 31
Gameplay loss + Packs = more gameplay
to bad it’s unavailable for purchase rn I really wanted to get it
My adopt stray stopped workig