Feeling guilty :(

[11Snoopy16]

Once I put my dog up for adoption, and everything was fine. Then after a couple of Sim days, he showed up on my doorstep...as a stray! I felt so bad I adopted him back into the family. The adoption service promised to find him a good home! All lies! 

[marystar]

I know the feeling i did the same thing on my very firist day i got sims. I learned my lesson. So when my cousin got it and wanted horses i told her to start with a minor animal and work your way to a horse when you are comfortable.But you did the right thing with putting them up for adoption. It wasn't you fault. You just couldn't deal with it at the moment.

[nicstriumph]

I got the overwhelming feeling when I had two horses (I has grow to two sims at this stage as well) that I wanted to put the one I had got from the adoption services back up for adoption. On the day I decided to jump the ring of fire with my other horse and caught fire. The horse threw me and I was quite a way from the house, and the fire service was useless. Anyway I died And the adopted horse saved me from good old' Grim whilst the other one sat eating grass RIGHT NEXT TO ME!

Needless to say the adopted one stayed and I just tried to cope (I did, eventually) I was never as enamoured with the other horse after that, to be honest.

[Gameactive]

Please excuse the offtopicness, but all this talk of feeling guilty over putting up pets kinda reminds me of my first experience with playing The Sims 1. *sniff* Both husband and child died of fire on the first night, leaving the wife all alone to manage the house on extremely low budget. I had many nightmares afterwards.  (BTW I was like ten or somethin’ back then)

[simmese]

It appears im getting wiser , lol
The sim family I just started , both the husband and wife want to adopt a dog and a cat
but ... I think she just got pregnant (she keeps running to loo to throw up) so im just deleting their wishes for a dog and cat every time they pop up

Ive never dealt with a baby or child before (not in the sims anyway) so I want to make sure I dont overextend myself with this family

[marystar]

That's how I always tell my sim is pregnant.  Tip: read Carl's guide on children.

[Saturn]

Has anyone else done something like this ... or am I the only pathetic one on the forum

I have and vowed I'd never do it again!!  And the music is so sad!  I have some animal lovers with the ark for a lifetime wish and I have several horses, with dogs and cats in a few of my households.  I ended up having to make an extra sim with the equestrian ambition to help train the foals so they'll get the extra 'good' traits.  I have 2 families each with a breeding pair of unicorns and each family with foals and they really keep me busy as well.  The extra help in the families has been been nice to relieve some of the pressures of care.