Hi everyone!
I haven't found a similar thread, so I decided to make a new one.

My Sim's pet went missing, and when another Sim called and promised to return them.... well, they never came, and my pet was stuck as a runaway, forever.
I didn't know how to fix this issue, so I used Simlogical's teleporter to add the runaway pet to another household, and then back to my Sim's.
It worked.... kind of. The pet is selectable again and lives with her Sim again, but... now my pet has the "runaway" icon next to its picture, and it won't go away.

I tried to give up the pet for adoption and then adopt it back, but it didn't help. I also tried to summon the pet to another household (as a visitor, without adding them to that family) and calling the owner, but it also didn't help.

Some other forum suggested using the Batbox, but the "Fix runaway pets" option does not appear.

Is there anything else I can try?

You could try one of the teleporter mods and see if you can get the pet back.

The thing is - my pet is back at my Sim's place, selectable and playable. She just has the "ran away" status next to her picture, and I can't get rid of it.

Maybe trying deleting with move_objects on and reload the lot? Not sure what effects does have on pets, so I'd definitely back up first.

Already tried it, nothing happened :c

Have you tried teleporting the pet onto another lot, add in to the family adding it then adding it back to the original family? Has it got a job? Just wondering it the icons for working/learing new command replaces the runaway one? (sorry, I don't play with Pets so my memory is a bit rusty)

Yes, I mentioned this in the original post - I have added the pet to another family and then back to the original family.
The pet doesn't have a job and cannot be hired, since the game considers her to be away.

Yes, my point was trying to force the game to add it to the family without cheats this time... Try to move the pet somehow to the lot bin and then adding it again to the family - maybe have a Sim move out with the pet (if this appears in the list of family members that can move out with them) or maybe evicting the family all together.

My guess would be since the pet is still technically run away and has never come back "the right way" there's still a flag somewhere that consider it runaway... Wouldn't know where to look but maybe there's something in SimPe.

I did try to move the family into the Family Bin and then back, but it didn't help. Even tried to move them to a brand new empty lot to see if anything changes (it did not) :C

I don't know why I haven't thought of checking SimPE I couldn't find anything, unfortunately... Cleared all tokens from the pet's inventory / memories, also didn't help.
I made a backup of my 'hood and turned the pet into a human and then back into a cat, which I'm pretty sure is dangerous to your save file... When the game treated her as a human, she didn't have the "runaway" status anymore (pretty sure human Sims cannot get it), but as soon as I reverted her back to a cat, the status reappeared :C

Edit: trying to make the pet into a ghost and then resurrecting them, also does not help.

Had the pet taken away by the Social Worker, adopted them back - still stuck with the "runaway" status.

Edit 2:
Seems that other players had similar issues, but they never got resolved.

https://modthesims.info/t/233599

https://modthesims.info/t/290483

Last thing I can think of is turn testing cheats off then use the batbox and do a reset on all.

ADD: Can you use SimPE and remove that token in the pets memory?