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The Animal Kingdom Challenge

by @bluberry-sims @simmingstrawberry @lilplummerbob @thegrannypotato @simsinablanket

Hello and welcome to the Animal Kingdom Challenge! This is a legacy based challenge to explore all of the aspects of the new Cats & Dogs Pack! This challenge 5 generations. Here are the basic rules:

Do not use cheats unless extremely necessary or for your storyline, ex. reset object

Start on the island in Brindleton Bay, yes, the one with the museum. Just bulldoze the lot and make it residential

Have any career you want unless stated otherwise in the rules of that generation

Finish the Aspiration and career given in each generations rules

Play in normal or fast aging mode, fast is recommended

Tag the challenge #animal kingdom challenge / #ak challenge / animal kingdom

The First Generation-Dog Lover

You are from a poor family but you were raised to believe that every life matters. When it is time for you to move out, you take your dog and go to Brindleton Bay. There, you barely have any money. You set up a tent and get a job, collect, or have your dog hunt for you, if it can, for money.

Rules:

Have a dog before you move into your new home / start your story

Move into the island lot in Brindleton Bay

You may make a starter home with the money left, but cheat away any left over simoleons (”testingcheats on” then “money 0″)

Only date people with a dog or dog lover trait

Get married to someone who has a dog opposite gender as yours

Have your dogs have puppies

Giveaway however many you want, but keep at least one puppy, the rest of the slots you have in your family will determine how many kids you will have

Master Training Skill

Become best friends and companions to all of your dogs

How far you get in your job doesn’t matter (If you have one)

All kids must have dog lover traite EXCEPT heir

Traits: Dog Lover, Loves the Outdoors, and Cheerful

Career: Optional

Aspiration: Friend of the Animals

The Second Generation-Crazy Cat Lady (or Man) You have always been a cat person, despite everyone in your family. They were all dog lovers. You hated dogs. They are messy, terrible creatures. Cats were sophisticated. You moved to a small home/apartment right after turning into a young adult. The second you could, you adopted a cat, or two.

Rules:

Move out a day after your teen to YA birthday, or the day of it if you want 

Adopt two cats right away, first a kitten from the computer, and then later an elder stray cat

Marry a cat lover who owns one cat

After the death of the elder cat, have two children (maybe twins, your choice). When each child is born, adopt a kitten of the same sex

When children move out, taking their cats with them, you decide to take in as many strays as possible

Have a negative relationship with every dog you ever meet

Become companions with all of the cats you ever own, relationship with all of those cats has to higher than with all of your family

Post pictures of your cats to Simstagram every single day and have at least 3000 followers

Traits: Cat Lover, Snob, Materialistic

Career: Business

Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy

The Third Generation-Swiper No Swiping

You grew up with wealthy parents, you always got things you wanted the easy way. You grew to be very money hungry and didn’t want to earn money the right way. Your parents and siblings didn’t like your ways so you always had a bad relationship with them. You were very rude and loved to steal for money. You were looked down on by all wealthy sims. You adopted a fox, to help you with your sneaky schemes.

Rules:

Start off living in a small run-down house/apartment with “your” cat your crazy parent forced you to take to your new home

Give the cat away or just move it out immediately

Have a bad relationship with your parents and siblings

Own a Fox named Swiper (Like Swiper the Fox in Dora)

You can only steal things and sell them for money (other than your job as a criminal, shhhhh)

Swiper must go with you everywhere you go (They’re like your lil sidekick)

Only have one child

Master the Mischief skill

Must be enemies with everyone you come across who is wealthy

Never marry, only have short-lasting relationships

Traits: Evil, Insane, Kleptomaniac

Career: Criminal

Aspiration: Public Enemy

The Fourth Generation-Lover of All Animals

Your parents, grandparents, and great grandparents were always specific to only one type of animal, they were never open to anything else. You wanted to be different so you had a variety of animals and opened a vet clinic. Your parent was against it. They always wanted you to be evil too. They wanted you to follow in their footsteps. But you refused.

Rules:

Adopt at least one dog, fox, and cat, but not a raccoon

Open a vet clinic and have it reach 3 stars before Adult

Have clinic reach 5 stars before death

Have maximum 3 kids

Adopt at least one of your kids

Live in the lot next to your clinic

Don’t cheat to build your clinic 

Never have any of your pets have puppies, or kittens

Spay and neuter all of your animals 

Traits: Dog lover, Cat lover, Good

Career: Veterinarian

Aspiration: Friend of the Animals

The Fifth Generation-Mischievous Raccoon

As a child, you were always with your parents at the vet clinic. You grew to love animals like everyone in your family, even if that was the only thing you had in common. You related to the raccoon, as it was always looking for it’s next meal, and was very different from all the others. You soon realized it was too perfect to ignore,  so you adopted a raccoon when you moved out.

Rules:

Must adopt a raccoon

No close relationships with parents/siblings/grandparents

Do not have many friends, but have a lot of acquaintances

Have close relationships with children

Become best friends and companions with your raccoon

Master the Cooking and Gourmet Cooking skills

Have a restaurant that reaches at least 4 stars (then you do not need to master the Chef career!) (only if you have dine out)

Traits: Glutton, Loner, Ambitious

Career: Chef

Aspiration: Master Chef

We Hope You Enjoy the Challenge and Happy Simming!

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The blogs that are affected send out the messages to blogs that they follow for a long time mostly, so you are most likely to receive the message from a long time, active follower whose name you might recognize or a mutual etc. The blogs that are affected are not spam bots but actual active followers who follow the recipient for months or years and most likely the blogger who “sent” the message is unaware of the message being sent.

DO NOT OPEN THE LINK.

Opening up the link will cause the virus to spread even more and infect your computer/mobile with any sort of malware.