[OPEN] [CD] All dogs do potty on the porches and terraces
by koshechka84Original Post
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crinrict
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
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? 1.63.136.1010
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All Eps, except ECO. All GPs. All SPs except Tiny Living, Moschino, Spooky.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play the game with dogs in a Household.
What happens when the bug occurs? When a dog want to do business it goes on the porch and not on the terrain.
What do you expect to see? I want dogs do their potty on the grass and not on the porches. If sims do not consider terraces and porches with roofs as outside, then why animals think otherwise??? To do potty outdoors means to go to any place down the stairs and do it somewhere on the grass.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No
I want dogs to do their potty on the grass and not on the porches.
If sims do not consider terraces and porches with roofs as outside, then why animals think otherwise???
To do potty outdoors means to go to any place down the stairs and do it somewhere on the grass. Not on the porch.
It is as ridiculous as puppies and kitten not able to use stairs.
Edit By Crinrict: Added Tag to Title, Adjusted Title
@Nellylicious101 I've had this in my game also, and of course it is annoying. I tend to go one of several routes:
- Have a butler or maid, leave it for them, and try to ignore it in the meantime (the pee puddles do evaporate)
- Enclose the porch so that it is considered an 'indoor' room, then add a 'roomba' in the room (though they are unlikely to use this room to poo/pee unless they're not potty trained or are a puppy).
- Add a doggie door that is the only door that's unlocked to the dog so they use only that door. Have the doggie door exit to a tiny 'deck' that is only a step landing and not a flooring piece. This way the dog will not stop in the landing but will go down to the yard to pee/poo.
Note: I did also find that I needed one tile of space between this 'doggy deck/exit' and the regular deck or the dogs will walk through the railing to the regular deck and pee/poo there:
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@koshechka84 I agree, love your suggestion, and have added my 'me too' and 'XP. 
I do hope the code can get modified a bit on how dogs look at porches, as you say.
In the meantime... I know this is not much consolation, but some workaround and gameplay things I've done when I had this happening in my game. Hope something helps:
Dogs going potty on the deck is annoying. To address this, my favorite options are:
• Have a butler or maid, leave it for them, and try to ignore it in the meantime (the pee puddles do evaporate).
• Enclose the porch so that it’s considered an ‘indoor’ room, then add a ‘roomba‘ in the room (though they are unlikely to use this room to poo/pee unless they’re not potty trained or are a puppy).
• Add a ‘Doggie Deck‘:
Add a doggie door that’s the only door that’s unlocked to the dog so they use only that door. Have the doggie door exit to a tiny ‘deck’ that’s only a stair-landing and not a floor tile. This way the dog will not stop on the landing but will go down to the yard to pee/poo:
Note: I did also find that I needed one tile of space between this ‘doggy deck/exit’ and the regular deck or the dogs will walk through the railing to the regular deck and pee/poo there.
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@koshechka84 @PriestessAvenara Yes, this is true. If you happen to be living in The Old Salt House in San Myshuno you may find your dogs confused by the fact that all of the 'grass' on that lot by default is grass actually flooring tiles. You can kind-of see this in this video I did a while back (sorry, this was before I gave up and started making better video quality and doing audio that you can actually hear... let's just say I dragged my feet a long time): https://youtu.be/IBFvmBlZicY
Of course, you could confirm if someone did this on the lot you're currently on (if you didn't make it) by sledgehammering the grass area. I'm not aware of any more Maxis residential lots that were made this way.
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@SheriGR @PriestessAvenara Well, I've tried many variants. But it is still a Game problem that dogs and cats don't think of terraces and porches as house parts, while sims definitely consider them already inside. This drives me crazy, when in freezing temp they go out in their light clothes and then shiver from cold.
This is just insane)
Even when my dog (real I mean)) was a little puppy she would never do her potty on my porch. Grass, grass.... Or some stones for her 
6 years of the game, I think this could have been corrected many times.
@SheriGR As for poops, I used them as fertilizers (until they stopped working)
Otherwise I leave it for Maids for now)) But... there are some trash plants appearing on the porch suddenly Well, how do they grow without ground, that's the question.
