Horses and gates

[Dellena]

Horses cannot use the single gates, only the double gates.  So use single gates when fencing in your garden.  Deer can't use single gates either.

[Noodles]

Since I bought pets my gates will not give the option to lock. Sometimes my sims act like the gates are not even there and can't go thru them. I hate the paparazzi and didn't know you cannot starve them. I usually reset them to get rid of them.

I'm having this same problem: I used to have a normal gate locked on my lot (not the paparazzi gate), but since getting pets, I can no longer lock the gates! I've replaced them but it didn't help. Did they change this recently? Some people on this thread say you could still lock gates but I can't.

It's rather annoying I can't control where my horse roams. It doesn't seem logical either that the horse can just enter & leave his stall by himself. So, he ends up galloping all around the place, which I don't like too much.

EDIT: I solved it!

It seems if a gate is placed on a fence that is not a perfect, fenced in area (I don't know the correct english word for this, but it has to be a "square" of a fence, with no holes whatsoever - there's a tool for that too in the build mode), it can be locked. If it is on a single fence, or there is even one hole in the fence somewhere, if doesn't give any options when clicked! I'm sure it wasn't like this before, but I feel so good for finally figuring this out, I can now control my horses. *happy dance*

[Dolphinsong]

I just lock my gates against pets. Sims can go in and out just fine while pets are unable to go through them due to it being locked against them.

[cndneh]

I posted about the horses just wandering through the gate in another topic. I've found that they may go galloping about off the block, but they come home. Now, I just have a fence around my garden with the gate locked to pets because they like to get in there and eat the produce before I pick it.

I had the problem with horses eating plants... trying to grow something on the Omni plant and it kept not having anything to harvest - turns out the horses were eating it (not the grapes or apples... no the deathfish on the Omni plant  )

I find the horses just run around but come back to the food and water.  My problem I found (without a locked gate) was they would all park in front of the front door of the house and whine about not getting in then fall asleep at the front door, so I would have to put them away and then lock the gate for the night.