It's so normal here! The USA is so big and diverse, it's really funny when the media tries to make us all sound the same. As long as the cougars stick to stalking deer and driving the coyotes away, they make good neighbors. When they start stalking livestock and people we have issues.

I think it's a good thing Sims 2 wolves are NOT real world wolves, though. Just cute non-dangerous stray dogs. (Nearest pack here ranges up to about twenty miles away, which is nothing to a wolf, and wolves can be huge problems when they get desensitized to humans, just like feral dogs. Absolutely prefer cougars for neighborhood large predators.)

The unreleased Bartender Serve Food mod, still in an alpha ; can be found on my account on SimFileShare. (BigWoe, without space)

At least your wolves can't spread lycanthropy. XD

I have something that will probably sound really abnormal to you. We have no bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars, bobcats or any other large mammalian predators. We also have no badgers, foxes, opossums, moles, gophers, skunks, raccoons etc.

Until stupid humans introduced them NZ had no mammals at all (except bats). Now we have rats, possums, deer, wild pigs, stoats and rabbits, all of which are a danger to our native birds.

Humans really are stupid. Especially people like Eugene Schieffelin, who introduced European Starlings to America, or all of the many people through history who brought plants and animals to Ascension Island.
There are good stories too, for example the Marshall Islands, but for many species it's too late. Poor Great Auk, Dodo, Thylacine and Passenger Pigeon.

Moa here.

At least the cane toads here can only be found in Queensland.

I couldn't find it. Do you have a link? The closest Google would give me was 'big toe shoes'. XD

I'm not sure if this is a mod that didn't describe this behavior or its Sims 2 vanilla I've never seen before. I recently have seen couples start cuddling outside. I know its a Sims 3 behavior but I've never seen it in Sims 2 before.

Do you mean like lying down and looking at the sky while cuddling? Then it is vanilla.

PM'd.

Never knew Sim Fire Share is a more private file hosting site than the like of MTS, my bad.

Yes. None of my Sims 2 Sims have ever done this until recently.

Not so much while playing, but during the making of Traderville, I think I have discovered something.

With all the empty templates in the game AND all the stealth hoods disabled, the hood still generated a number of NPC's. And kept doing that when I reverted to my backup.

I decided to try something else and disabled the base game hoods as well - then got out the backup again.

And not a single sim generated, not even a salon stylist or restaurant chef.