Pets at University
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Features
This mod allows young adults and university residents to:
- Adopt cats and dogs from pet shelter
- Give them up for adoption
- Sell and give pets to playable young adults
- Buy pets in shops from pet displays
- Hire obedience trainer
- Have wants and fears about pets
At the moment, teens can't take their pets with them by taxi when they're moving to college, but I plan on releasing the mod that allows that.
By the way, small pets, like birds, caged dogs and guinea pigs are allowed in college by default.
Plan of attack
- Make sure you have Pets and University expansion packs.
- Decide which version of this mod you want and download only one of them.
- Choose and download related mods.
- Optionally, run HCDU for conflicts.
Requirements

I only tested on Ultimate Collection, but I did work on compatibility, so the mod should be good for other configs as well. No confirmation, though.
Versions
- pets-at-university - regular version with all the above features.
- pets-at-university+noautopetbuy - the difference from the regular version is that uncontrolled playables won't autonomously buy pets from pet displays. (Personal note: You get asked before a pet is added to buyer's family, so I personally don't use this version. I can always say no, but sometimes I want to say yes to random pets.)
- pets-at-university-LessWants - the difference from the regular version: to want to obtain a pet, sims living in dorms or fraternities have to have 9+ points in animal interest, sims living in apartments have to have 6+ points in animal interest, and the rest have to have at least 4 points in animal interest. Sims with low social motive (less than -45) may want a pet regardless of interest. With this version, I recommend to use a mod that allows older sims to have high interest in animals.

Conflicts
HCDU may show possible conflicts with the following mods, but they are resolved.
- MogHughson's Apartments and Shopping - you can use our mods together and have all the benefits, if my mod loads after Mog's. Both versions of my mod are compatible with Mog's.
- Pescado's No Autonomous Pet Buying - it's included in the noautopetbuy version of my mod (there's no other way). This means you can remove Pescado's mod, or let my mod load after Pescado's.
- No Pet Obsession by twojeffs - can probably be resolved, see post #16
This mod may conflict with other mods that override the same resources.
0x42484156 0x7FF216AD 0x00001009 | Service - Obedience Trainer - TEST
0x42484156 0x7FD521D2 0x0000101E | Service - Pet - Give Up For Adoption - TEST
0x42484156 0x7FA083E3 0x0000200F | EP3 - Interaction - Buy - TEST
0x42484156 0x7FA083E3 0x00002022 | Interaction - Buy TEST
0x42484156 0x7F4DE67B 0x0000101E | Service - Pet - Adoption - TEST
0x42484156 0x7F4DE67B 0x0000100B | CT - Phone Call Available?
0x42484156 0x7F01EC29 0x00002414 | Social - Pet - Sell TEST
0x42484156 0x7F01EC29 0x00002401 | Social - Give Pet To TEST
0x42484156 0x7F739728 0x00001247 | CT - Test - Obtain Pet
0x42484156 0x7F739728 0x00001248 | CT - Test - Obtain Pet - Exclusive
0x42484156 0x7F739728 0x00001268 | CT - Test - Pet Leaves Family
0x42484156 0x7F739728 0x00001267 | CT - Test - Offer Pet For Adoption
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Additional mods
You'd want to get additional mods that take care of aging, moving out and jobs at university. They are not absolutely necessary, but very much recommended.
- For pet aging on campus - Uni-aging mod.
- For moving out of college with pets - YA-move-out-of-college.
- For pet jobs to be available on campus - Jobs-in-uni mod.
- For more varied interests to complement the LessWants version - veetie_InterestAgeMod
That's it. If you catch a bug or have a suggestion, please post in the comments. Thank you!
Additional Credits:
EA/Maxis, SimPE, Compressorizer, Photoshop.
My thanks to LilSister and gummilutt for testing.
The picture is composed of original Sims 2 renders and some default Photoshop pattern.
Filename | Type | Size |
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pets-at-university-LessWants.zip | zip | |
pets-at-university-LessWants-lamare.package | package | 3637 |
Note from the Creator:
pets-at-university-LessWants.zip
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pets-at-university+noautopetbuy.zip
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Install Instructions
1. Download: Click the download link to save the .rar or .zip file(s) to your computer.
2. Extract the zip, rar, or 7z file.
3. Place in Downloads Folder: Cut and paste the .package file(s) into your Downloads folder:
- Origin (Ultimate Collection): Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection\Downloads\
- Non-Origin, Windows Vista/7/8/10: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\
- Non-Origin, Windows XP: Documents and Settings\(Current User Account)\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\
- Mac: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads
- Mac x64: /Library/Containers/com.aspyr.sims2.appstore/Data/Library/Application Support/Aspyr/The Sims 2/Downloads
- For a full, complete guide to downloading complete with pictures and more information, see: Game Help: Downloading for Fracking Idiots.
- Custom content not showing up in the game? See: Game Help: Getting Custom Content to Show Up.
- If you don't have a Downloads folder, just make one. See instructions at: Game Help: No Downloads Folder.
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Uploaded: 11th Jun 2018 at 10:12 PM
Updated: 4th May 2025 at 8:47 AM
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