🐾 PAWS & HOOVES 🐴

Run an Animal Shelter or a Breeding Farm, and find a family for every cat, dog and horse.

✅ Compatible with the October 27, 2026 game update (game version 1.129.39.1230). Tested on October 28, 2026. No mod update needed.

💜 Free for everyone, made with love. Patreon members get every new version early, before it comes out here. Enjoying the mod? Join me on Patreon ! or buy me a coffee on Ko-fi !

Turn your Sims' home into a real animal shelter: call the pound, take in abandoned cats and dogs for free, and find them a new family through your Small Business. Or run a Breeding Farm: breed pedigree animals, get health certificates, rent out your best stud and let customers reserve the next litter. Every animal has a fair price based on its age, training, breed and lineage, and every sale is a real negotiation with your customers.

✨ Features

🏠 Two new lot traits (they can't be combined)

• Animal Shelter: your household can call the pound from the phone (Household > "Call the Pound") and take in up to 10 random cats and dogs for free (within the household size limit). On a shelter, the adoption hug becomes "Take In (§0)".
• Breeding Farm: animals born there and pedigree animals sell for more, health checks are done on site, and litters tend to be bigger.

💰 Sell your animals with your Small Business

• New customer activity "Pet Sales": customers come to meet your animals, play with them and ask about adopting.
• New employee task "Present and Sell the Animals": your staff praise the shelter, present the animals and make offers on their own.
• Choose which animals are for sale: "Put Up for Sale / Take Off Sale" on any cat, dog or horse, or check them all at once in the Breeding Registry (computer).
• "Offer a Pet": your Sim talks with the customer, who may then make an offer. Accept it, refuse it, or negotiate with your Charisma skill (careful, a pushy seller can make the customer walk away!).
• "Present a Pet": the customer goes and pets the animal, then tells you what they think (loved it, mixed feelings, no connection). If they loved it, they may ask to adopt it themselves!
• Praise the shelter or tell an animal's story to make a customer more interested.
• The sold animal joins the customer's family, with the right owner relationship.
• Horses can be sold too!

🏷️ A fair price for every animal

• The price depends on the species, the age, the training (commands learned, good and bad habits), the breed (purebred animals are worth more), the pedigree, being born on your farm, a valid health certificate and pregnancy (even more for a pedigree litter).
• Horses: their skills, competition podiums and champion bloodline raise their value.
• Your business markup applies.
• "View Card" on any animal shows the full price breakdown, its parents, whether it is for sale, the litter reservations and what each customer thought of it.

🐶 Shelter life

• "Organize an Adoption Day" (phone, §200): for 6 hours more customers come and they are keener to adopt. You get a summary of the animals adopted at the end. Once a week.
• Customers may "Donate to the Shelter" (§20 to §150, more during an adoption day).
• Daily shelter aid: every morning at 8 am, your household receives §20 for every animal taken in from the pound that still lives with you.

🐴 Breeding Farm

• "Health Check" (§100): a 7-day health certificate that raises the price.
• "Offer a Stud Service…": rent out one of your adult males for a quarter of his value. Customers may also ask for it themselves. He then rests for 3 days.
• "Offer to Reserve a Baby…": a customer reserves a baby of a pregnant female for sale, pays a 30% deposit now and the balance at birth, when the baby goes home with them.
• Breeding Registry on any computer: all your animals with their value, breed, pedigree, health certificate, pregnancy and parents.

🚪 And also

• A new door lock: "Lock for… > Household Pets" keeps only your own pets out, while visitors' and customers' animals can still go through. Works on every lot.
• Household pets don't run away while a door of the lot is locked for them.
• Customers remember their interest and their opinion of each animal, even after saving and reloading.
• Translated into English, French, Spanish, German and Italian. Other game languages display English.
• No dependency: you do NOT need Sims 4 Community Library (S4CL) or any other mod.

🔜 Coming soon: v1.1.0 (early access on Patreon)

• Real adoption fees for shelters: on an Animal Shelter, animals are adopted for a modest fixed fee (no breed or pedigree bonus), like in a real rescue. Breeding Farms keep their full prices.
• In-game settings menu (Computer > "Paws & Hooves Settings"): adoption fees, sale prices, daily shelter aid, donations, animals offered by the pound, health check price, stud fee and reservation deposit.
• Rescue a Horse: with Horse Ranch, your shelter can take in horses from the pound too.

Patreon members can already play it: https://www.patreon.com/ImALittleUnicorn/posts/paws-hooves-v1-1-173366443. It comes out here for free on 11/18.

📋 Requirements

• Cats & Dogs: required.
• Businesses & Hobbies: required to sell animals (Small Business with the "Pet Sales" activity), for adoption days, donations, stud services and reservations.
• Horse Ranch: optional, to sell horses and offer horse stud services.
• Script mods must be enabled: Game Options > Other > "Script Mods Allowed", then restart the game.
• Tested on game version 1.128.90.1230.

💾 Installation

1. Download and unzip the file.

2. Move the "PawsAndHooves" folder (with its 2 files) into your Mods folder: Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > Mods

3. Make sure both files are there:

   • PawsAndHooves.ts4script
   • PawsAndHooves.package

   ⚠️ The .ts4script file must not be more than ONE folder deep inside Mods.

4. Start the game and make sure script mods are enabled.

🎮 How to use

Animal Shelter

1. In Build mode, open your home lot's traits and add "Animal Shelter".
2. Phone > Household > "Call the Pound" and choose the animals: the pound officer brings them over.
3. Create a Small Business, add the "Pet Sales" customer activity, put your animals up for sale and open the business.
4. Talk to customers: praise the shelter, present an animal, then "Offer a Pet".

Breeding Farm

1. Add the "Breeding Farm" lot trait to your home lot.
2. Breed your animals, get health checks, check the Breeding Registry on your computer.
3. With your Small Business open, offer stud services and baby reservations to your customers (click a customer).

❓ FAQ & known limitations

• I can't find the lot traits: they are in the lot traits panel of Build mode, like the game's own traits. You can also use the cheat console (Ctrl + Shift + C): pawsandhooves.refuge_on / pawsandhooves.refuge_off and pawsandhooves.breeding_on / pawsandhooves.breeding_off.
• An interaction is missing? Type pawsandhooves.diagnose in the cheat console: it lists what is installed and why an option may be hidden. Also check that script mods are enabled.
• Animals can only be sold to customers of YOUR Small Business, while it's open and has the "Pet Sales" activity.
• The pound only offers cats and dogs, not horses.
• The household size limit still applies: the pound won't let you take in more animals than you have free slots, and unborn babies of pregnant animals already take a slot. When the household is full, "Take In" is greyed out and the animals you didn't take in leave with the officer, like in the base game. If you raise the limit with MC Command Center, the game's own Create a Sim may still cut large households down to 8.
• Stud services happen offscreen: the customer pays, but no animal of theirs is created and no litter is simulated at their home.
• Daily shelter aid only counts animals taken in from the pound after installing this version.
• Want to see the prices of your animals? Type pawsandhooves.price in the cheat console.
• Where is the mod's data saved? In Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves > PawsAndHooves (one small file per save). Keep this folder with your saves if you back them up or move them to another computer.

💜 Support my mods

All my mods are free, and they will stay free. I make them in my spare time, and your support is what keeps them coming:

• Patreon: get every new version early, before its free release here (about 2 weeks later), and follow the previews of my next mods. https://www.patreon.com/ImALittleUnicorn/posts/paws-hooves-v1-1-173366443
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🐞 Found a bug?

Please leave a comment with:

• what you were doing when it happened,
• the file Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > Mods > PawsAndHooves.log,
• your last exception file (lastException.txt, or mc_lastexception.html if you use MC Command Center),
• the result of pawsandhooves.diagnose if an option is missing.

🗑️ Uninstall

Remove the lot traits from your lots first (Build mode or pawsandhooves.refuge_off / breeding_off), then delete the "PawsAndHooves" folder from your Mods folder. Your saves stay safe. You can also delete the "saves > PawsAndHooves" folder if you don't plan to reinstall the mod.

🌍 Translations

English, French, Spanish, German, Italian. The German, Italian and Spanish texts use the game's own vocabulary but haven't been checked by native speakers yet. Spotted a mistake or want to translate the mod into your language? Leave a comment!

Community translations (made and hosted by their translators: download the file and put it in your Mods folder, next to the mod):

• Russian by ArgentumetCinis: http://www.simfileshare.net/download/6315620/

💜 Credits & terms

Made by Little Unicorn. Early access on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ImALittleUnicorn/posts/paws-hooves-v1-1-173366443 · Coffee on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/unikhorn Free for everyone. Please don't re-upload this mod anywhere else or claim it as your own: share the link to this page instead. Give them all a loving home! 🐾