My suggestion would be to have a pet shop where we can adopt pets and buy pet food, toys, beds, a leash for pets. Also please make the option to customize our pets such as colors, breeds, patterns, name, etc. Option to walk dogs, play fetch, hug, snuggle. Option to train pets and teach them tricks. I also want to see Zois around town walking their dogs or cats and dogs in house lawns, or at parks and the beach. This adds to realism. We should have dogs, cats, birds, mice, turtles, fish, snakes in the pet shop. I would like to play with laser toys with my cats and maybe our dogs and cats can even hunt or dig for treasure. Pets might have special senses around ghosts! That would be fun! Also I would like pets to have unique traits.
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Choice between dog breeds that have realistic consequences; “Purebred” (in-bred, unfortunately) should be shorter-lived but have specialized traits, “crossbred” should have mid-range lifespan and no specialized traits, and “naturally-bred” should have random traits but the longest lifespans.
Please, for the sake of puppies everywhere, help dispel the myth that “purebred” is desirable if inbreeding is the only way to maintain the breed. Pairing two different breeds of purebreds (afaik) in real life is okay, you can have a Labradoodle or other interesting combination, but in real life the inbreeding of brother and sister dogs is cruel and commonly used by puppy mills.
You don’t have to remove the option entirely, this is just a game, but the true consequences of it in real life need to be acknowledged in at least one game in a way that is honest rather than a way of reinforcing the idea that a pet is only a commodity. I’m not saying “go full Greenpeace and demand the end of dog-breeding in some ill-advised activist message” either, having a dog is okay and selective animal husbandry has been used for thousands of years, I’m saying “tell it how it is, please; pets deserve better than the worst hat we give them, and inbred dogs live shorter and more painful lives”.