"To get a really good pet, make sure you play with it over and over again as many times as you can BEFORE you buy it. The personality points go up for each time you play with it. Also, to improve your social be sure to praise every time you pet an animal. It raises faster that way." - evad2003

"If your dog/cat doesn't come when you call it and doesn't do what you tell it to then check their relationship with that sim and the dog/cat. I had brown male dachsound named Sammy and when my Dad(but I killed the daughter for some reason I forget)told Sammy to do something or called him he never came or did it, and they didn't like eachother very much, but when my mom called him he came and when my mom told him to do something he did it because they were close and my dad and Sammy weren't very close. So make sure they like eachother before doing something with them." - Glistening Tears

"different breads of pets can bread. and to get ride of the raccoon you can build a wall around him and in the morning call animal control, or not." - 8======D-

"if you don't want your pet to go with you to the old town when the shuttle arrives build a wall around your pet." - 666

"ok this is kind of tricky but if you want to get your pet like 4 bars at one trip to old town, this is what you do, its actually very simple :-) ok train your pet with the pet trainer, then enter him or her in a dog show, her moods will go up all the way then train them again after the show and just keep doing it it always works for me" - Ashley (SIMSNUT101)

"Your pets have exactly the same needs as you(the sims) ,go to the "pets" section and get the best objects for your pets and remember that I've found pets prefer their own room rather than in the lounge,kitchen etc.To get their social up play with them,pet them and give them lots of love.P.S to get their hygeine up bath them but remember it depends on their personality if they'll keep sill during bath time!(you might need to use rosebud)." - sum1_093