You can also goad them into doing any activity you want, such as cooking breakfast, though they're usually bad at it the first time. For the most part, you can leave your Sim and pet alone as they go about their business. The minute you set foot in your new home, the game becomes a close copy of The Sims 3. Once you get one Sim and one pet completed, you can choose your new home and be on your way. You can also give the animal fewer personality traits than you gave your Sim, so you can have an adventurous puppy by your side or a cat that acts like Garfield and loves nothing more than food and sleep. You can change everything from breed to color to hair length and voice. After creating at least one adult Sim, you can go on to create either a dog or cat. The options are the same as before, but with a few trait additions, such as fur allergies and an affinity toward either dogs or cats. You start the game like you always have in any other version, and that's by creating a Sim. No matter what, you'll start out from the very beginning. Finally, data from The Sims 3 cannot be transferred over to Pets. The console version, however, lets you start out with a kitten or puppy in addition to the adult versions.
While the console version has a plethora of dog and cat breeds to choose from, horses are only present in the PC version. Aside from being a stand-alone game, the setting is different, with the PC's ranch being replaced by a small town. It should be stated up front that there are some differences between the PC version of The Sims 3: Pets and the console one. The interesting choice for stand-alone expansion pack to The Sims 3 for the console space: pets. Unsurprisingly, the trend in the PC iteration extends to the console versions, with the more significant packs getting stand-alone releases on just about every imaginable console. Some may seem logical while others are completely off the wall, but they all contribute to fleshing out the universe for these virtual beings. Like clockwork, any new entry in The Sims is always accompanied by a slew of expansion packs.