Cat is never hungry doesn't use litter box

[DizzyDee-K]

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Mac
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.51.77.1220
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Get a cat
What happens when the bug occurs? the cat is never hungry and doesn't use the litter box
What do you expect to see? A hungry cat. A cat using the litter box.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system?

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Started a test game (new TheSims4 folder) after the April 16 patch to test mods. Made two households. One with a dog. One with a cat. The cat is never hungry and never uses the litter box. I've move everything around and moved houses. If I call the cat to eat he comes over but doesn't eat. He's never hungry. At all.

None of the mods I tested had any apparent relationship to pets and removing them did not fix the cat. 

Repaired and reset my game.

Tried taking everyone too GF. That sometimes fixes odd behavior. The cat used the litter box first thing, but not at all after that. Was never hungry.

Of course - nothing in, nothing out, but it's odd.

[TwistedMexi · Accepted solution]

Hey Dizzy, this is something others reported on a specific re-upload of AllCheats. I'm guessing you downloaded it from the Destroy Objects fix post? I don't understand why or how as my mod has nothing to do with cats but I deleted the file and re-uploaded on that post. I haven't heard of any more of these issues since, nor have I heard of these issues from any of the other download locations so it should be fine now if you redownload.

[crinrict]

Could you test a second cat without mods to see if it's any way reproducible if you create the cat on a vanilla game ?

[DizzyDee-K]

Will, do.

[crinrict]

Have you had time to test this ?

[DizzyDee-K]

Yes. After multiple cats and dogs saves, I'm 90% sure this was caused by TwistedMexi's All Cheats mod. 

[crinrict]

Hmm

that seems really odd

Moving this to tech for now and also alerted @TwistedMexi 

@DizzyDee-K 

[TwistedMexi · Accepted solution]

Hey Dizzy, this is something others reported on a specific re-upload of AllCheats. I'm guessing you downloaded it from the Destroy Objects fix post? I don't understand why or how as my mod has nothing to do with cats but I deleted the file and re-uploaded on that post. I haven't heard of any more of these issues since, nor have I heard of these issues from any of the other download locations so it should be fine now if you redownload.

[DizzyDee-K]

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@TwistedMexi wrote:

Hey Dizzy, this is something others reported on a specific re-upload of AllCheats. I'm guessing you downloaded it from the Destroy Objects fix post? I don't understand why or how as my mod has nothing to do with cats but I deleted the file and re-uploaded on that post. I haven't heard of any more of these issues since, nor have I heard of these issues from any of the other download locations so it should be fine now if you redownload.

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Thanks for the info. My D-in-Law is bringing me a (new to me) Mac today, so I'll grab the new version. 

I was confused, because I couldn't see why your mod would be effecting cats either. 

[Loreafun]

The same happened with my game and the culprit was Littlemssam's NoSickDirtySadHungryPets mod.

[EA_Mako]

Hey @Loreafun,

Thanks for mentioning what caused this in your situation.

This thread is a few years old at this point so I'll be closing it to avoid further necroposting.

Please keep the dates of posts in mind when replying, thanks!