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With the release of My First Pet Stuff for EA’s The Sims 4: Cats & Dogs, interest in our simulated furry friends is at an all-time high.

Companion animals play a key role in all of our lives. Our pets live with us, grow with us, laugh and cry with us – they’re truly a part of the family. And the same is true for our Sim counterparts.

While there already are a lot of things to do with pets in the base game, the simulation is never complete. At least that’s what TS4 modders and CC creators seem to believe, and who am I to object?

For those of you who want to have even more fun with your little four-legged bundles of love, here are the absolute best pet-related mods every made, all downloadable for free!

20. Less Pet Barfing

We start with a small yet meaningful tweak that’ll make the pet-owning experience considerably less work-heavy.

In the base game, pets tend to barf with more frequency than even real pets.

The game’s base settings let them barf once every 30-60 minutes on average. Which is way too often.

This mod by creator Yakfarm simply increases the cooldown for the barfing action to 150-240 minutes, giving your sims more time to take care of themselves.

19. Playable Pets Mod

Another amazing mod to help you take care of your pets is the Playable Pets Mod, which lets you control your furry friends so they eat, drink, sleep or play whenever you tell them to.

This mod doesn’t add any new pet interactions. But simply lets you control them in the same way you would a sim.

It helps a lot with pet contests, training and simply keeping them from starving to death or relieving themselves in the carpet because the AI stupidly neglected to take care of itself.

18. Animal Lover Custom Trait

Some people just come into the world to love and interact with animals of all shapes and sizes.

And that’s what makes them feel fulfillment in life.

Thanks to modder Edespino, your sims can now embody these feelings through the Animal Lover trait.

This pushes them to play with their pets, collect frogs, become proficient at fishing, and makes them interested in becoming veterinarians – all through a variety of custom whims.

The trait also enables them to learn both fishing and veterinarian skills much faster, so they’ll be able to successfully follow their dreams!

17. Minor Pet Traits

With the recent addition of small animals came a whole slew of mods to flesh-out interaction with the tiny critters.

This mod by creator TwilightSims simply adds a couple of traits for Sims with strong feelings about small animals.

The “Loves Small Pets” trait will make them feel playful when interacting with them, while the “Hates Small Pets” one will make them feel uncomfortable around small creatures like hedgehogs and rats.

It also adds one for the marine-inclined, “Fish Fanatic”, which works just like Loves Small Pets… except it triggers when interacting with fish tanks or fishing.

16. Pets Can Find Pet Stuff on Other Floors

The Sims has always had its fair share of bugs. It’d be crazy to expect such a complex simulation not to have a couple of hiccups.

One of the most egregious ones yet unfixed in the base game is a pet’s apparent inability to find their litter boxes, food bowls, and even beds if they’re not on the same floor.

This often leads to uncomfortable situations like starving pets and wet carpets, which your sim will have to spend their precious time fixing.

Thanks to modder Deathcofi, it only takes a simple install to fix this issue and make your pets all the more self-sufficient.

15. Pernese Dragon Costume for Cats

With the release of the Realm of Magic expansion back in 2019, interest in adding magical creatures skyrocketed.

And with it we have a somewhat unique option of an adorable mod by EmilitaRabbit. It adds several colors to the small dragon costume for cats.

They may not be actual dragons, but there’s something magical about how cute they look.

These costumes are based on the Dragonriders of Pern novel series by Anne McCaffrey, hence the name. It’s oddly specific, but I ain’t complaining!

14. Dragon Package

But why stop at costumes?

Why not add actual dragons into your game?

Well, calling them “actual dragons” might be a bit much. This amazing mod by The Kalino replaces large dog meshes for that of small dragons, making your canine companions into veritable wyverns. Complete with wings and horns.

There are several colors available with tails, horns, and wings that you can mix and match to create the perfect magical familiar for your spellcaster sim.

13. K9 Officer Vest and Collar

Dogs don’t need scales and fire-breathing to be formidable, as is shown by K9 officers that work alongside police forces all around the world.

Modder EmilitaRabbit offers this very detailed vest for canine officers on-the-clock, as well as K9 collars to identify them during their free time.

This is a must-have for dog-loving detective sims who need a canine companion to have their back if things go south.

12. Small Dog BTS Hoodie

The Sims’ playerbase presents a sizable overlap with K-Pop fans. In part because there are simply so many nowadays.

For those fans, creator BeccAi has made these adorable tiny BTS hoodies for small dogs. This has several designs to show your love for one of the biggest pop groups in recent memory.

You probably have one just like these in your own closet, don’t you?

11. Small Dog Collars

Few things look as cute on small dogs as a tiny bandanna wrapped around their neck in place of a collar.

It’s a bit more human-like, which I guess is funny.

This mod by TheLittleCreator offers a total of six unique bandanas with chic designs to help your dog express their personality.

Olive camo, several colors of plaid, classic dog treat print and even an avocado pattern are great additions to any puppy’s wardrobe.

10. Crescent Moon for Cats & Kittens

Everyone knows Sailor Moon. It’s one of the most successful magical girl anime series ever, and the love towards the magical version of the Spice Girls spans multiple generations.

Creator Kalewa-a is a big fan of the series. So they made this little cat accessory to put some classic anime magic into their game.

It’s a crescent moon just like the one that famous black cat Luna has in the series, available in different colors to suit your tastes.

Now we only need a mod that turns your sims into magical girls.

9. Walk Your Cat

People have walked their dogs ever since keeping them as pets became a thing.

But have you ever seen somebody walking their cat?

Cats aren’t meant to be put on a leash and paraded around… and yet, some degenerates still do. And I have to admit few things are cuter than a grumpy cat letting themselves be dragged through the floor by a struggling owner.

Thanks to this mod by LittleMsSam, your Sims can now walk their cats as well. Except the cat will actually cooperate.

8. Pets Seasons Package

Humans and sims alike have different wardrobes depending on the seasons and such climatic factors, so why shouldn’t your pets?

Proficient modder and animal lover The Kalino took it upon herself to fix this by adding something for every season.

Dog coats for the winter, onesies for chilly autumn nights, and even tiny cat sunglasses for the summer!

7. Slower Pet Motive Decay

In real life, dogs want attention all the time. And cats don’t care about your sleeping schedule when it’s time to eat. It’s par for the course when you have a pet!

That said, pets in The Sims 4 are so needy it hurts. Quite literally!

It hurts your career, your social life, your sleep schedule… Sim pets are a full-time job.

This mod by SNTHE greatly diminishes their need for human attention by making their motive bars deplete much slower, giving your Sims their life back.

You’ll still have to play with them or clean the floor from time to time, but it’s much more manageable.

6. Cutie Pie Cat Eyes

Eyes are the windows of the soul. And few creatures have eyes as mysterious and captivating as our feline friends.

This mod by MadameChvlr seeks to port some of this beauty to The Sims 4 with 10 sets of big, round and adorable eyes that are a considerable improvement over the somewhat soulless ones in the base game.

5. PralineSims’ Pet Eye Pack

Variety is the spice of life, and ten extra sets of eyes isn’t nearly enough for the average Sims player.

Proficient creator PralineSims offers us this massive collection of 54 new colors and textures to fill your cat’s ocular cavities.

Not only does it include a wide variety of colors, but also some unique ones like cloudy blind eyes and even unnatural marble eyes that make your feline friend look like a demon in kitten’s fur.

If you like these, be sure to check PralineSims’ TheSimsResource profile for more.

4. Small Dog Burberry Sweater Collection

If you’re truly committed to the dog-lover life, you want to give your canine friends the best money can buy.

This massive CC pack by creator PinkZombieCupcakes gives you access to 48 different Burberry sweater designs to make your small dogs look adorable and warm.

Whether you like sober plaid, colorful stripes, or playful paw print – you’ll find something you like here.

Just because they’re dogs doesn’t mean they don’t want to dress well!

3. Small Animal Package

The recent My First Pet Stuff pack added plenty of new small animals for you to play with, but why not take it all the way and turn your home into a veritable small animal zoo?

This set actually comes with two packs (one and two) by The Kalino.

It adds 20 new critters to The Sims 4, including squirrels, chinchillas, lizards, and even turtles to care for in the same way you’d care for the official small animals.

In addition it features six small animal cage re-colors with more natural tones to help preserve your carefully designed interiors cohesive and tasteful.

2. Applied Animal Behaviorist Aspiration

Most Sims are pretty fond of animals. But in real life, some people are truly obsessed with our companions on planet Earth.

This mod by IlkaVelle lets your Sims become passionate about them as well thanks to the Applied Animal Behaviorist aspiration, which essentially means they want to become the Dog Whisperer.

A sim with this aspiration will always want to be around animals, befriending and training them so they can live in harmony with humans and perform better in contests.

Achieve every objective in this aspiration and you’ll get the Behaviorist Wisdom trait. From this it helps you reach a point where you’re so good at communicating with animals, they’ll be able to fill their motives just by having a comforting talk with them.

Strange, yet charming.

1. Animal Rescue Mod

Out of every amazing pet-centric mod we’ve covered in this list, my favorite is Animal Rescue by PurpleThistles.

It adds a very fleshed-out Animal Rescuer career to The Sims 4.

Sims following this career path will make adopting strays, training them to be exemplar pets, and putting them up for adoption.

They’ll hone their skills, expand their business, and give many lonely animals a new home.

It also adds statistics showing how many pets your animal rescuer has adopted, spayed, or re-homed throughout their career. So at the end of their lives they can look back and feel like they truly made a difference.

The Sims 4 is the perfect game to let time float by. Despite coming out years ago, there’s always something new to check out every time you sit down to play – whether it comes from EA or the Custom Content community.

If you’re already familiar with the Eco Lifestyle expansion and can’t wait for the upcoming releases, well there’s nothing left to do but plunge right into the world of mods and CC.

And what a better place to start than by revamping TS4’s food and cooking?

The base game’s systems can feel a bit rudimentary at times, and we all need variety in our diets to live healthy, happy lives – even Sims.

So join me as I take a look at the best culinary mods that’ll elevate your Sim’s foodie experience to the next level.

20. The Grocery Store Mod

Before your Sims can get any cooking done, they must attend to their pantry and fill the fridge with ingredients that’ll open up the culinary possibilities.

In previous installments of The Sims you were allowed to visit the grocery store and similar venues right from the get-go. But The Sims 4 is a bit different in that… well, it expects you to either grow food yourself or find it out in the world by chance.

With this fantastic mod from SmagGeorge, you’ll simulate the cooking experience more realistically by physically going to the store to get all you need for a balanced meal. Just like real life!

19. Shop for Groceries

With my life as it is nowadays, I never actually go to the grocery store. It’s the 2020’s, after all, so now we get our groceries from the comfort of our beds. Welcome to the modern era.

This mod by notorious creator SrslySims allows your Sim to indulge in their sedentary tendencies without sacrificing healthy eating.

Hungry? Just have your sim order groceries from a phone, tablet, computer, or even a cash register if you just want some grub at work.

Thanks to this add-on, every fish, produce item, and flower in the entire game is just one click away.

Also it’s compatible with other mods that add new ingredients too. Nifty!

18. More Servings Options & Better Meal Time Menus

Once you’ve got your ingredients ready, it’s time to call up the family and serve them a warm, hearty meal that’ll hopefully give some positive buffs, rather than send them running to the bathroom.

As the family cook, it can often be annoying to cook every single serving.

And sometimes the default serving sizes are simply insufficient.

This mod by LittleMsSam fixes this issue by letting you choose how many meals to cook in detail.

Whether you want a romantic dinner for two, a special Party Size meal for seven Sims, or just a single cheese sandwich, your Sim will be ready to measure ingredients and cook with precision in mind.

17. Healthy Drinks

The default drink variety in The Sims 4 isn’t exactly extensive.

What better way to improve it than with health-giving drinks that’ll keep your Sim active and energized throughout the day?

Creator LittleMsSam decided to improve her Sims’ lifestyle and make these healthy drinks available at any venue where drinks are prepared and served.

Options include Carrot Juice, Spinach Juice, Lemon Juice and even Plasma Fruit Juice for the bloodsuckers in the family.

And these healthy drinks aren’t all show. They’ll also give your Sims positive, health-related buffs such as a happy moodlet and a minor increase to their fitness skill.

16. Edible Junk Food

Let’s face it. Most of us haven’t had a healthy drink in weeks (or at least our Sims haven’t!)

The only things that are never missing from most of our homes are snacks and plenty of junk food.

The Sims, living the whimsical lives they do, are primed to indulge in the same unhealthy delicacies as humans. Still, their choices are a tad limited.

To expand their repertoire of snacks, CC creator Around The Sims brings us this pack of iconic treats consisting of Nutella, Oreos, and several flavors of Pringles Potato Chips.

Anyone else getting hungry just reading this?

15. Assorted Cookbooks

Junk food is delicious, but we should do our best to avoid it, or that’s what my gym teacher always said.

One of the best ways to keep you eating healthy is learning plenty of recipes for fresh meals.

Creator LittleMsSam makes this much easier for our Sims by providing these diverse cookbooks that’ll teach a Sim to cook a bunch of experimental recipes, seafood, and much more.

All in around 60 in-game minutes.

You can also make NPCs read these books, so they know the best way to cook these dishes too. That way they can make them for you, saving you plenty of time.

Hint: look into a butler.

14. Custom Food Interactions

One of the most important food-related mods you can download is TheFoodGroup’s Custom Food Interactions, a pre-requisite for most of their recipe CC packs.

After installing this mod, you’ll notice you now have a “Custom Food” option anywhere you have regular food interactions.

You can cook custom food at the stove, feed your toddler custom food, and even make Vampire-friendly food.

This makes it easy to find all of your shiny new recipes, letting your Sim indulge in the custom delicacies you so painstakingly procured for them.

13. Custom Drink Interactions

And why would you stop at custom food when you could enhance this simulation by installing TheFoodGroup’s Custom Drink Interactions?

You want an Apricot Bellini? A Pink Lady?

Maybe some cocoa with marshmallows, perhaps?

Custom Drink Interactions can make it easy for your Sim to get themselves a little bit of flavor in a cup, anywhere that drinks are usually available.

If you’ve been using mods for a while, perhaps you know this mod as IceMunMun’s Custom Drink Interactions.

This is the updated version, maintained by a different group after IceMunMun dropped the project.

12. Food Delivery Service

I’ve been busy with work and other projects lately, so I’ve had to rely on my favorite local restaurants to keep me fed through their delivery services.

Just like I can make my time last more by not cooking my own meals, so should your Sims have the chance to indulge in the wonders of ordering food.

Thanks to LittleMsSam’s Food Delivery Service mod, now they can.

Where originally they could only order pizza, now your Sims have astounding culinary variety at their fingertips 24 hours a day.

They can order single, family, or party size depending on their needs. And the delivery will only cost them 25 Simoleons, plus the cost of preparing the food.

11. Granny’s Cookbook

If you’re interested in easy-to-use mods, Granny’s Cookbook by creator Littlebowbub will not disappoint.

It merely adds a cookbook decoration you can place wherever you find it convenient.

You’ll then be able to interact with it and choose from a wide array of recipes divided into Cold Drinks, Warm Drinks, Quick Meals, and Granny’s Recipes.

These recipes include simple stuff like Chicken and Dumpling Soup, but also experimental dishes such as Beef Patty with Coco Bread, or Thai Mango Sticky Rice.

Whether you want a snack, a drink, or a more substantial meal, just choose a recipe and your Sim will take care of the rest.

And hopefully not burn the house down.

10. Drinkable Hot Drinks

Creator AroundTheSims generally focuses on visual improvements and decorative CC for The Sims 4.

These wonderfully modeled hot drinks started their lives as decorations, before the creator had the genius idea of making them functional beverages too.

This pack includes all kinds of hot beverages with unique looks to keep you warm and stylish through a rainy day. Or just to have your friends over and have a friendly chat over steamy concoctions.

It even includes some lesser-known multicultural options like Japanese Tea and Yerba Mate for our Argentinian and Syrian friends.

9. Drinkable Alcoholic Drinks

AroundTheSims continues the series of re-purposed decorative drinks with another mod: Drinkable Alcoholic Drinks.

This expands the ethylic possibilities of The Sims 4 to reflect better the realities of alcohol consumption in the 21st century.

It includes several staples of bartenders worldwide like the Mai-Thai and the Margarita, along with household classics like Bailey’s on the rocks.

Each of these iconic drinks will have a different effect on your Sim so it’s fun to get them drunk and see what happens.

And of course, please drink responsibly!

8. McDonald’s Custom Food & Drinks

If like seeing McDonald’s in games, you’ll have a blast with AroundTheSims’ McDonald’s Custom Food & Drinks.

These beautifully-modeled colorful treats include desserts, fries, chicken nuggets, and burgers in bright red and yellow packaging bearing the golden arches.

It’s a lot of variety to experience in one sitting. So you’ll probably be ordering McDonald’s for a while.

The pack also includes a lot of themed furniture and appliances to let you create your very own McDonald’s inside The Sims 4. Yes, really!

7. Ask to Cook/Bake/Grill/Mix Drink

We all know someone who’s never had to lift a finger to make their own food. They’re a fact of life!

And so should they be in The Sims 4 if we’re aiming at any level of realism.

This simple mod by LittleMsSam will let you ask other Sims, including NPCs, to take care of your culinary needs by interacting with the same appliances you usually would.

This is ideal for the lazy Sim that never leaves his room, and any Butler/Maid situation you want to setup.

Just keep in mind that the Sim will need to know the recipe before cooking anything for you.

6. Don’t Wash Dishes Where You Angry Poop

One of the most common complaints and occasional memes regarding The Sims 4 has to be the fact that Sims appear to love doing the dishes in somewhat… unusual places, including the bathroom.

This has a lot to do with the fact that bathroom and kitchen sinks are just seen as “sinks” by the AI.

That’s what Scumbumbo’s humorously-titled mod wishes to address here.

It letsyou manually tell your Sims which sinks are OK for washing dishes, and which should be left alone.

That way you won’t be thrown out of your immersion by their bizarre behavior, and they’ll have less uncomfortable encounters in the bathroom.

5. Don’t Prep Food Where You Angry Poop

Just like the previous mod, Don’t Prep Food Where You Angry Poop will allow you to set cooking-safe stoves and surfaces around the house manually.

This saves your Sims a lot of awkward moments with their roommates, family members, and the odd house guest.

These may be simple mods, but they deserve to be near the top for just how useful and essential they are.

Would it really be that difficult for EA to take care of this in the base game?

4. AsteriaSims’ Food Texture Overhaul

One of the most sought-after improvements in The Sims 4 are those that make your game look more realistic… or put simply, prettier.

A great way to achieve this when it comes to food is AsteriaSims’ Food Texture Overhaul, a comprehensive pack of appealing textures to make your Sim’s food look as delicious as you’d see in real life.

This pack features intricate detail, as is evident in its bowls of individually-depicted grains of rice.

That roasted chicken is also among the most realistic I’ve ever seen.

3. UtopiaSims’ Food Textures

Another excellent array of upgraded textures you definitely shouldn’t install if you’re watching your weight is UtopiaSims’ many food textures.

They’re colorful, warm, and delicious-looking.

Best of all, they achieve this without going for a photo-realistic look that forces you to change everything lest the food looks out of place surrounded by the clay-like vanilla aesthetic.

The Best Sims 4 Food Mods

2. GrayCurse’s Cooking & Ingredients Overhaul

If what you’re looking for isn’t an aesthetic improvement, but a robust culinary addition to gameplay, then the Cooking & Ingredients Overhaul by creator GrayCurse is what you need.

This engaging mod makes cooking a more challenging and in-depth endeavor by adding many more ingredients.

You’ll get stuff like cheese, flour, eggs, milk, and sugar. It also makes recipes more complex.

This way you’ll need to procure the ingredients for each dish first.

Don’t worry about the added complexity making your Sim go hungry, though. You can get most of it by buying it from the fridge.

1. Srsly’s Complete Cooking Overhaul

In a similar vein as our previous entry, Srsly’s Cooking Overhaul changes recipes to make them more complex, thanks to more accurate ingredient lists.

Just as in real life, your Sims will now be missing ingredients for their recipes all the time.

To balance this out, Srsly also allows us to order them through the Food Delivery Service covered before, which is a vital part of this larger overhaul.

Ingredients will arrive in a packaged form that’s stylish and appealing as a temporary decoration. Would be nice to have this in real life, eh?

But if you need a single mod that’ll truly turbo-charge your cooking experience in TS4, this is it.

The Sims 4 Custom Food Mods