Hooba Noobie?

Setting Up:

Sims

Your first Sim will be the Adoption Center’s owner. He/She must be at least a young adult, but can have any combination of traits that you want. You are allowed to have as many other Sims as you wish when you start out. These Sims can be family members or roommates that can help out at the Adoption Center. These extra Sims can be of any age and have any traits that you want.

The Lot

You are allowed to start out on any sized empty lot. 40x30 is recommended for a smaller facility with the necessary amenities; there are no restrictions on size or how lavish you want your facility to be, just let it be originally created by you!

The Family Home Your home must be a separate building. This means that it can be attached to your Adoption Center as an apartment or as staff housing. You have complete freedom as to how your house is built, it just has to satisfy your Sims needs.

Adoption Facility

One of these must be attached to each of your animal boards. This is where (imaginary or townies) guests come to view the animals up for adoption, and perhaps adopt one (add the designated pet they play with the most to their family via manage household). Attach any rooms to this area that are related to personal care for that animal (ie., washroom to bathe dogs). Each animal board room must be view-able from this room.

Animal Board

This is where animals are housed that are/will be up for adoption.

One animal will be assigned to one boarding room, which requires 1 bowl, 1 toy, and 1 pet bed/cat tree. Each room must have an indoor and outdoor section. It is recommended to have one large outdoor/indoor section where all of the animals in that board can play and socialize with one another.

In the case of a pregnant animal, the mother will get her own room which is much larger than the standard. This is so she has enough room to care for her babies. Animals that are not pregnant should not be boarded here. You start out with 1 of these rooms at the start of the challenge.

The animals rooms must have a door leading outside to a fenced area, this door can stay unlocked. There must be another door leading into the animals room for you to enter. This door HAS to be locked and only accessible to you.

Rules

Base Challenge

You must start out with an empty lot and build with the funds you have, but you can roll under to get some extra cash towards building your Adoption Center. 

You cannot move into a prebuilt lot at the start.

No cheats that affect your motives, relationships or income (including MC Command Center, but it is ok to be installed for other purposes)  

You must add animals to your facility by befriending strays yourself. (You can edit them and make them more “adorable”, a little sprucing up never hurts!)

Your primary income is adoption fees. Fees will get more expensive relative to how many positive traits are learned while at the facility, along with many other factors (see Adoption Fee Calculator) that can affect the price both negatively and positively. Call in for the adoption on your phone (or allow another simmer to adopt them into their game through the gallery/tray files!) so the animal can be picked up by the new owner. Once the animal leaves the household, use the Money cheat to add the fee to your household funds after you have calculated the price and the adopter has “paid” said fee.

Animals must stay at the facility for a minimum of 3 days before they can be put up for adoption. If an animal was born in the facility, you must still wait the 3 days. Keeping them for a longer period of time to train them for good traits and/or skills is recommended in order to get better income.

When you go to put an animal up for adoption, all of their needs must be fulfilled as best as possible as well as their mood.

Upon entering the facility, every animal must be washed and groomed (to simulate deworming, flea baths, taken to the vet if no vet practices are in your facility, and they must be spayed/neutered).

Sims & Pets

The Adoption Center owner and employees cannot have a job. Tending to the animals and putting them up for adoption is his/her job. You are allowed profitable hobbies (painting, writing, gardening, etc.).

If you have a family pet with the hunting skill, it’s up to you if you want to sell what he/she finds. If you want more of a challenge, do not sell the items. You cannot sell items found by animals in board.

Animals are not allowed to breed with one another while in the facility.

If you get your animals taken away, you have lost the game.

No animals are allowed in living area of Sims, if a cat rides a vacuum into any area it is not supposed to, quickly take it back to it’s designated area.

No Sim can own a vet clinic, but you can take care of the animals if your sim has studied up to level 5 Veterinarian Skill.

To adopt another animal, you must teach your animal three commands: Fetch, Heel, and Sit.

You CANNOT use the control pets mod!!!

Storytelling

Pick a prompt at the start of each week. Examples:

What luck! A generous fellow decided to donate to our cause! Add $2,000 to the household funds. (Please don’t abuse this!)

  Looks like we’ve been having some crazy weather over the past few days! Sims cannot visit your Adoption Center 3 days out of the week due to the weather. None of your Sims can leave the home lot, and no animals can be adopted during those 3 days. Since there isn’t a Seasons EP yet, you’ll have to use your imagination (ie., tornado warning).    

Looks like the food we ordered for the week was tainted, now all of the animals have are ill. You’ll have make homemade pet food and pay $300 in anti-diarrhea medications this week (wellness treats for everyone!).

Adoption Fee Calculator

For each section, choose all that apply and then add up what you’ve selected.

Dog

Puppy: +$700

Adult: +$600

Elder: +$300

Breed:

Purebred: +$75

 Mutt: +$25

Traits:

Positive Traits +$25 Per Trait

Negative Traits -$25 Per Trait

Social/Training:

Tricks: +$15 Per Trick Learned

Hunting Skill: +$15 Per Point

Cat

Kitten: +$600

Adult: +$500

Elder: +$200

Breed:

Purebred: +$75

Mix: +$25