Pets are now official

[VampirePlasma]

That's the town.

[TheChronicR]

Where did you get these from, Vamp?

[xFezIsAFreakx]

I see that they were tweeted by SimFans.. Although I am sure this will be the real town it hasn't actually been announced by EA yet.

[VampirePlasma]

Yea they were tweeted by SimFan.

[TheChronicR]

Ahh, I see. Thanks for explaining.

[samoht04]

Hmmm, I don't really know about this Town, it doesn't make me think 'Wow' but maybe that is just because they are Camera Pictures of a Screen. So all the colours may be messed up.

[Leto85]

I think this town will give away a feeling of freedom, with their whide range of space, which you can see in the background. It has a range kind of style, which is in my opinion quite obvious.
I won't be surprised if this town also looks a bit like Twinbrook, as horses and training horses will bring back the farm feel of life.

The Sims 3 Farm finally? I knew it was a German joke two years ago about the first ever Sims 3 expansion (and ofcourse I failed for it) but perhaps we now will get a little bit of what we have missed back than. Dumme Witze Deutsch.

[VampirePlasma]

Pets number per household comfirmed.
6 for PC and 5 for Console 
I was hoping for 8 but that's alright.

[Esther1981]

Is that 8 sims plus 6 pets? Yikes it's hard enough to control 8 sims haha.

[samoht04]

I would say so Esther. That's not going to be great for Pet Breeding if they have litters of 6? I wonder if the Lizards, Folcons and such come into that and Horses, come to that I wonderif you can have the Horses on your Lot? Or do you only keep them on your Ranch because then you could have Horses in SV by the beach! 

[pallyndrome]

Pets number per household comfirmed.
6 for PC and 5 for Console 
I was hoping for 8 but that's alright.

oh good. Not the best (best would be but still good enough.

I think the video showed items used to make a house into a stable for horses.

[pallyndrome]

check out these 2 awesome previews (thanks for snootysims for the links):

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-08-17-the-sims-3-pets-preview

http://au.gamespot.com/pc/puzzle/the-sims-3-pets/news/6329553/the-sims-3-pets-updated-preview?mode=previews

I love all the new info these previews include. Especially: turning pets into sims and vice versa? Awesome!

[Schipperke]

I love all the new info these previews include. Especially: turning pets into sims and vice versa? Awesome!

I am really getting excited about this EP!  If it lives up to expectations, I think it'll easily be the best EP to date.  Well, to me, anyway.

Thanks for those links, pally.

[VampirePlasma]

Okay let's see if I get this right.
You can have a maximum of 6 Pet Sims per household but two must be Sims (humans) You can mix and macth for 10? 
 You can have as many small critters as you can afford.

[samoht04]

Wait What? So those Pets are added to the 8 Household Sims Total? If that's right this just got less appealing...