

Add dogs, cats, birds, or guinea pigs to your Sims family. Whether it's kids cuddling kittens, adults watching TV with a drowsy Calico, or elders spending a sunny day in the park with their faithful German Shepherd, your Sims will share a lifetime of special moments with their pets. Choose from dozens of dog and cat breeds including Pug and Persian. Or create your own unique cat or dog by modifying its body type, face shape, fur color, markings, and more. Then pick a personality! Is your Boxer gifted or goofy, your Burmese hyper or lazy? You decide! Cross different breeds to create designer pets or make new ones and register them to appear in Create-A-Family as a unique breed. Your Sims can teach their pets tricks like shake, fetch, roll over, and more. Unruly pets might topple the trash or scratch the sofa, but Sims can change their pets' ways with the right training. Skilled pets can have careers of their own and earn a living as Movie Stars, Rescue pets, or members of an elite Security Pet Corps. Upload your favorite Sim pets to TheSims2.com to share with other The Sims™2 Pets players through the Exchange.
| Abandoned Pets Seek New Homes After Floods (CBS 2 Chicago) When Quincy, Ill. And Cedar Rapids, Iowa were ravaged by floods last month, there was a human toll paid in damaged property and lost homes, but there was also a toll exacted on pets, as CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports. |
| Firework celebrations can frighten pets (WBIR-TV Knoxville) Every year around this time, Young-Williams Animal Center sees an increase in stray pets being brought in and they say celebrations may be the reason. |
| Valley Families Look for Their Runaway Pets (KFSN-TV Fresno) More than a hundred valley families are hoping to be reunited with their lost pets after Fourth of July fireworks caused many of the animals to run away. |
| First Funeral Home for Pets Opens in SWFL (WINK TV Southwest Florida) Naples - Pet owners now have a place to say their final goodbyes to their loved ones. Fuller Funeral Home just opened "Pets at Peace" in Naples providing full funeral and crematory services for animals. |
| Meetings with a Mutt? More Pets Sharing Office Space (Carteret County News-Times) (ARA) - Dogs and cats and fish, oh my! More than 63 percent of American households own a pet today, which equates to 71.1 million homes and a whopping 382.2 million pets, according to a recent American Pet Products Manufacturers Association survey of pet owners. |
