Was Veterinarian Ever as Good as I Thought? The Sims 4 Cats and Dogs Gameplay 

I don’t like that I have to own the clinic to be a veterinarian. I mean it’s great that we have the opportunity to own a vet clinic and unlike in the restaurant we can work there. But still I would have preferred it as a official playable career like acting or detective career

You can take a skill class for the vet skill with University, which is a bit more realistic than going in without any skill

"People say Sims 4 is shallow, but this is a kiddie pool." Like damn, Carl, why don't you tell us how you really feel? Subbed just for that line.

Vet clinic is boring, but apparently it's the only business that works and brings in consistent money once you set it up. You just need to open and close it in each 8 hours section. Try Dine Out next, Carl. And you'll know the pain. The restaurants never work without you being there yourself, ugh!

As someone who works in an emergency vet clinic, I sympathize with the vet Sim screaming at the pet owner. The number of owners I’ve wanted to scream at & the number of owners I’ve had scream at me is astonishing. I’ve even had to call the cops on owners before. Definitely encountered a few I’d like to fight for their pet as well.

The lady with all the cats literally has a bunch of cats and yes she is a townie. She lives near the pier in Brindleton Bay. I really like the vet career but unfortunately I experience vets being too slow to dealing with the sick pets.

They could have added to it. What about staying over night? You could have to take care of the pet as it recovers from surgery all night. Or there could be random events where people call you up asking you to pet sit for them. They could have added boarding pets, breeding pets, and training pets into an animal expert career type thing. A part time career as a dog walker or pet sitter. There's so much they could have done with pets, but didn't bother with.

With University, you can take an elective class in Vet Skill, but there's technically no degree in it. So for story purposes, I guess you could take your sim to University for a random degree and do the Vet Skill as your elective for as many terms as it'll let you.

To be honest, Ive had cats and dogs since it came out, and I’ve never played with the vet career. Never looked interesting, you know? It just seemed poorly developed from jump street

The only good thing about the vet career is you can bring your dog is as a patient. It sucks they didn’t do something similar for get to work

I like sims 4, but this game sonetimes just feel like a lazy game. It seems sims 4 team just dont want to make things in depth really

Very fair analysis, IMO. In some ways, this is a very frustrating career because a pet owner will sometimes bring their pet in, who makes a big mess in your nice, clean room, then you'll cure their pet only to find they are complaining about the mess in your office. The mess their pet made. I found it was also a slow way to make money in the Sims 4. I think that's a good thing since there's so many ways to make heaps of money in the game. But with pet diagnosis very quickly becoming as boring as you've mentioned, it can be a real test of your patience staying with that career for very long. Especially with the cleaning up you end up needing to do. I usually ended up making a club with cleaning as an activity to fix that problem, but I don't really understand why the Sims team felt every animal going to the vets would create a giant mess. Having a vet career in Sims 4 was a great idea, but it was (as is all too common) a poor implementation of that idea. Is it really so difficult for the Sims team to understand that many of us want interesting, varied gameplay that has at least a hint of challenge to go with it?

Still not sure if I'm here for the guides or for the lowkey snark

The lady that kept coming has 7 cats

As a veterinarian, I also don’t love that the training is just on the job. I worked way too hard for that degree! But they did the same thing with the doctor career so at least they’re consistent. As a veterinarian specializing in behavior, my favorite thing is that the pet’s emotional state had to be considered to be successful. You just know someone in development has a pet that would, be one of my patients irl! And monotonous or not, seeing the same illness 10 times in 1 day and needing or make sure the pet parents are happy are realistic aspects of the job.

I have multiple roombas in my clinics since I don’t like hiring NPCs and the pets won’t stop vomiting all over the floor lol

Monotonous is how I would describe it, things that should and have been fun in the past series are chores in Sims 4, even the new to series vet career is a drag, which is a shame because it had potential.

i liked the IDEA if the vet career and the Get To Work careers because they were actual active careers and not just rabbit holes. i really miss the "campaign" style of the earlier Sims games-where you have set goals that you have to achieve. the Sims 4 in general just gets boring really fast. It's too easy to make money, friends, and families. You can have a wedding and get pregnant on your very first day and be a millionaire before the kid is born.

I love watching your clever, humorous , and informative videos ! You always hit the nail on the head

What annoys me about it is when your own pet is sick and you go to the vet clinic with NPCs. There were files where I just couldn't stand having to wait for the NPC vets to wait. As for Cats & Dogs itself, the only real benefit to it is Hound's Head, the empty house 64x64 that has a nice view of the ocean. You don't see the cats or dogs roaming about other worlds, you don't see pet owners walking the dogs in said worlds, AND if you don't place households with pets into houses, the game will *treat them like strays*. I just wanted townies with pets, NOT clog up empty houses I would potentially move into just to prevent owned pets from becoming strays. It needs a lot of QA boosts. It's basically a glorified GP with the only real pro (besides the pets themselves) is the lot sizes. MAYBE the Massachusetts/New England vibe (which I love when it's Fall in game, but I live in New England, so I'm biased)

Cats&Dogs was one of the first packs I ever bought and I remember having a lot of fun with the veterinary career. But thinking back and comparing it to what other pack offer it does seem lacking. I always use the cas/build items from the pack so I never really noticed. I also find that the pet training skill is boring and never use it and mostly forget it exist lol.

What I don't understand is the star rating system. It SHOULD be the average rating. So why is it that, after I treated my first patient (who gave me 4 stars), I still have a 1 star rating? Come on Sims 4! Oh, and beware of treating pets whose owner is a kleptomaniac. They stole one of my decor items. So after I treated their pet (only gave me 3 stars), I locked the doors, invited that thief back, did enough mischief and mean interactions as possible and beat that piece of garbage up. They better not come back to my Vet Clinic!

It's funny, I adore animals and this is by far my favourite expansion pack! It's the only one I enjoy replaying! Guess we're all different 😊

Honestly the best career in game imo is the scientist; not every day is the same; there's lots to do; and most of all; it's FUN! all other careers seem very tedious.

That lady who keeps coming in is one of the premade sims. I think she owns like… 7 cats since they specifically made her to be like a “cat lady”.

That’s why I only play the sims for the build mode...😔

When you clocked the woman for letting her sick cat drag itself to the table in our time I literally choked 😂

I know I’m late on the comments but the more I play the sims I learn more. I almost gave up on the vet career because of the other lazy vets but I started back at it and tried to actually put some gameplay into it. So I know I had to put a bed in my office lol. Threw a drink tray and computer in there as well. Making treats and putting them in that “vet fridge” is nice because customers just come in and buy what they need and leave. With that you can even cut down on the amount of vets you have by one lol. If you make the “bring my pet back to life treat” it sells for $2000 but it only takes $300 to make. That’s amazing in itself right ! Just figured that out lol. I make a bunch of wellness treats and stuff and they sell so quick. Also making those serums for the exam table allows you to figure out quickly what’s wrong with that animal once they’re on the table. Sometimes immediately after one heartbeat check. Gets business going quick. And I have all the “equipment” at my home too because traveling to the vet can be an all day activity so I don’t take my pets to the vet anymore. The vet is here at home baby 🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾

I don't have much interest in playing the vet career, but I would if playing it would stop the amount of sick strays roaming around Brindgleton bay. I don't play that world because of all the sick pets roaming around.

Yesterday I watched this in the morning, and it inspired me to start a new Sim (named Kitty Doge) and play the vet career for the first time. I decided to make it slightly more challenging by making it rags to riches style, starting an open air vet clinic. When I left off last night I was at level 9 vet skill and I'm nearly able to make the Ambrosia treats. The treats sell like hotcakes, many times a customer purchasing my whole stock at once. Now the challenge is to hire and train more employees so I can spend my time crafting Ambrosia (and build a nice clinic with the proceeds). It's often challenging to run businesses successfully in Sims 4, the way they have tuned them. As a side plot I'm trying to adopt a stray cat, which turns out to be a super challenging thing. I have not done it successfully yet! So I guess I'm one of those that doesn't mind making my own fun.

That one lady showing up with the cats reminds me of the horrors of ONE BARISTA following Sims everywhere all across the world.

You've started coming with more videoes recently! I love it 😍 (and happy 17.may 🇳🇴 to any Norwegians out there)

I laughed several times throughout this. Thank you.

I played the vet career for the first time and while it can get monotonous, I had fun for a time. Thankfully paying for training before the shift ends raised my bet employees' skills. I dislike how one of my vets would stand around outside of talk to MY pets instead of work. I don't know if I should be happy or annoyed, but my other vet is an infected Sim from Strangerville so she gets possessed and wanders off if I'm open late. 😂 By getting the Well Managed perk, the vet business can make a decent amount of money while away. Just monitor your employees' satisfaction rating so they don't quit and it'll take care of itself.

Carl, I have so enjoyed your videos! Keep up the great work :)

“I wanted sorcery and brooms but I got cranky and procrastination” This made me laugh so hard and sounds a bit like my last meeting with my manager XD

I played vet recently for the first time in a while also, and I found it was less fun than I remembered it being. This was a fun video. Thanks!

You can get better reviews and more stars if you greet the patient and then instead of going to the exam table you first call the dogs a good boy or do other social interactions with them. You have to click around to realize that bc using the exam table is automatic.

I'm living for this series!

I always have to click on your videos as soon as I see you have a new one. Thank you for your assessment of being a vet. I had a vet clinic once a long time ago, but I completely agree with everything you said about this career. Thumbs up!

Thanks for uploading Carl :)

Are you sure the "townie looking" lady is bringing the same cat every time? Because that's Catarina Lynx, a premade from Brindleton Bay, who has like seven cats or so :D

thanks for the video carl!! i'm glad to see someone else with the same opinion on cats and dogs as me too!

One of the recommended employees reminded me of Joe Exotic.

I like the vet career but I rarely use it. I did use it for one of my generations in the Build Newcrest Legacy last month.

That person has a lot of different cats 🐈

In love with this game

I am SO going to make a future Sim live in upstairs in the vet clinic! That is SO cool! I didn't even think to do that!

"Then she went right back to Neutral, right where I like to keep them!" Hey, cant set those expectations TOO high, otherwise they start wanting more

I feel like Laserwolf had to be a random reference to Lazar Wolf (Fiddler on the roof) with how the name stands out

This is the kind of content we need for Sims 4. Keep it coming Carl! I hope the developers are paying attention.

I know this is like a year late and you probably know, but Zero has a mod called Required Degree for Careers. With the mod installed, you have to have a degree in biology or physics to open a vet clinic. I kind of like the idea of getting a degree in biology and seeing the vet skill more as a practical, vocational thing with the theoretical work already having been covered by the degree. It feels less ridiculous that way than just operating on animals with no experience whatsoever. It's also nice that your sim has a whole other skill to build once their degree is over, as sometimes I get bored with my sims after their degree because the skills they need to build for their job are already maxed out.

Carl have you played The Sims 2 Open for Business? I’d love to hear your opinions on playing a business!

Yes yes it was fun,and still is,I’m an animal lover,so I really enjoyed this pack,one of the best packs.

I will be quite blunt about this, the Vet Career is good and can be fun. But like you said it does get boring after a while, I know the career could have been a whole lot better if they had worked on the pack a bit more, or have Sims pet owners help clean up the messes their pets make. Like seriously I've gotten those clean up robo vaccuum cleaners clean up the messes and by the time they are back at port, there is another mess for my Sim to clean up. So I kinda exploited the Club Gathering system by making a club solely made for cleaning up around my vet clinic, but that was ages ago. It's been forever since I played the vet career or gotten a pet in The Sims 4.

Thank you for playing the pet doctor (vet) for me. Was never a fan of pets in any of the sims games but they are exp packs and I like the extra stuff. Now I know I want my mermaid sim to be a doctor and I never want to be a vet 😊

I'd have much rather had a hefty farming update with the pack instead of the vet career. They had already gone with a farm style aesthetic for the build/buy stuff.

Yey! New vid!!!!

That cat with the townie looking lady is different than the first one. She's a cat lady.

I was playing in another house hold for a bit and when I came back to my Vet the place was Open! For 22 Hours! She was 10,000 in the hole. 😦 I wasn't looking to play a rags to riches but here I am. I have payed off 5,000 so far. Oh, and I can not open my clinic while in debt.

I like the vet and the system. I wish we had a Doc In A Box for our human sims. Babies would still be born in the hospital but you could get a sonogram picture from the Doc In A Box.

Thank you for testing, i have not played a vet yet and now i dont have to :) stay healthy

I get that it's for the joke but Ms. Crazy Cat Lady came in with 3 different cats, not just one tortured soul...

I haven't seen anyone bring it up but the sims 2 (pets?, Idk) on the ds it has the full game where u play as a vet. It's simple, and pretty basic but it's really fun. If they want to do a vet career right, perhaps they should have done something like that.

Thank you Carl, I was seriously considering buying this pack, and now I will let it pass. Great work

5:46 still trying to figure out why they say "Oh Chaps," so often in this game!

CARL QUEEN OF POP

i really joyed the vet career!

Is your vet named "Harvey Danger"? That's amazing.

the way you said “you can just do this” with emphasize on the do I know you’re from the south.

Please address how impossible it is to run a profitable restaurant, please!

I hope restaurant is coming soon

Ooh, we do be early doe 😚🤚

that townie is katrina lynx. she has 6 cats and came in with different ones each time

Interesting 🤔, I notice Carl has a body type interest in ladies his sims hit on, did anyone else noticed it? 🤣

Everything you've said is true, but I still enjoy it. It's a good side job while working on ambitions.

Hey, I'm an old Sim1 to Sim4 , plus the console era, of dogs napping in front of my fridge, or bathroom door. Being an old selective Sim1 era dude, I haven't added Pets at 50% off. Bacically nightmares from Sims2 and Sims3. I spend my time with my IRL pet instead. I do like new buildable neighborhoods, but being a 50+ Simmer, I google stuff too, and if PETS are BB specific, or Selvadora, that is fine.

I bought this pack and saw there were only like 3 options for treatments when I took my pets to the vet every 5 minutes when they got sick so I never even tried it.

You would think from their experience from making a shop and and a restaurant that this career would be somewhat improved with more features so that it would be more fun to play...

When I first read the title I thought it said vegetarian lol

That lady with the cat... has multiple cats.

My irl -high school- had a vet technician course... So in some cases you don't even need college for that, odd

as someone going into vet med, i can verify sitting at a lab learning about chemicals is a lot of the base work required before you get to deliver puppies, sorry

Hello again again

cats and dogs was my first sims 4 xpansion, had fun making pets but after a while it gets boring, the high maintenance is boring and now i'd kinda..rather just cheat and have their needs at full constantly or just not have them at all. i forgot that expansion was 40 dollars and i literally just bought civ 6 with what i think is all its dlcs for about 43 dollars.

The only reason that I bought cats and dogs was for the town . I tried playing with the vet career, it is too tiresome. The pets get sick too often and annoying. I do love the cas and build / buy items. that is all. i got it on sale last year.

I have not tried it. I am playing the Sims 3 right now!

"She's ugly, but she's a sorcerer." I mean, who needs anything more?

HI Im an insufferable sims nerd here to tell everyone that Carl's sim was acting like an asshole to the patient owners because he has the loves outdoors trait and he's stuck inside giving him a tense moodlet. But yeah, I've played the vet career like once or twice and it was really easy to get my sim up to level 10 vet skill just by treating pets one after another, and then I just felt like I was done and stopped playing. Pretty lackluster.

very minor but I wish the vet actually lifted the pet up onto the exam table. it would also be interesting to have to keep people's pets in overnight and keep the pets' needs high for a better score. I'm thinking like sims 2 pets ds where you had to feed, wash, and play with pets + buy the supplies to do so. seems like most things in sims 4 are just too easy.

My favourite part of most of these types of careers is revamping the buildings. I sometimes have to take a Sim to work to do that, but it's what I enjoy the most. I make the buidling as efficient and logical as I can and then let the Sims do whatever they want after that... while I move on to revamping somewhere else. When I play any of the careers they tend to make me wonder who made up the idiotic actions that my Sim has to do to get promoted... like "talk to fellow worker" being an important part of the work day. Not in any of the places I've worked, it wasn't. LOL

I have a mod that requires a biology degree and I go to skills classes for it

I dunno but if you have a writer, maybe he could write a vet book

Could you make a vampire slayer guide?

I don’t like that they randomise and populate so much Sims with pets even when I have an average amount of each in my world. And it bothers me that the vets and the staff keeps being replaced by other townies when I switch household.

When I played with a vet sim I ended up tossing animals into every house I didn't play often and to all townie households entirely because I was tired of seeing Katrina PLUS after a few visits she started asking my sim out on dates or to hang out, showing up at his house at every hour of the day and night and I just didn't want to get involved with the crazy cat lady who calls 5 times a day even if I never pick up Plus my sim is a dog person, she's a cat person, it was doomed to failure.

also vampires can extract plasma packs from pets... and there is no penalty for doing it...

Carl sims guide you need do video on high school years expansion there alot to talk about but my biggest problem come to fact there no dress code so teen sims can wear just about anything when this first came out i was like ok the school was base on American style high school so test out the clothing situation bc hey i was thinking to myself if i get one my female sims to wear a bra and panty and binkin as there only clothing option i would expected alot of negative reaction from other sims including teachers and staff but nope sims just act normally like it nothing which shock me bc In IRL if a girl wore something against school dress code they would be sent home bc one I'm a guy who broke the school dress code i even went to high school without a shirt and just a hoodie or jacket but still got a dress code violation it was in middle fall when i did that consider the fact insane how much sima get away with this expansion I'm suprise you haven't covered it yet

I never bought Cats & Dogs (Only main pack I don't have)- I saw homeless sick animals populating hoods- and I was like- Nah! :-) Thanks for the Tour!

Maybe your Sim is yelling at everyone because they love the outdoors and you are not allowing them to be outdoors rn 😋