I'm very keen on finding out all about what we can do with the horses. I hope horses can be ridden anywhere, not just on whatever lot they're placed at. I'm guessing we can if they're controllable like the cats and dogs will. It would be cool if horses could be kept on a ranch community lot too. I already know I want one of my sims to be an avid horseback rider but she lives in the city part of my world. Hopefully if horses are kept in a stable it won't be a rabbithole. If done right I think I may be just as excited about the introduction of horses as I am about finally having cats and dogs back.

I hope we get entire categories in buydebug for wildlife spawners. Maybe one for animals and one for birds. It would be great if we get some exotic species for those of us who don't play in American-type worlds, or even for livening up the WA destinations.

they would paint the horses in shades of green if it werent too offensive.

I really want to have stables, so hopefully I can construct one for the horses my sim own. Even better if you can keep them on a community lot, we owned horses also living in a city. The stable was in an unincorporate area of town, so we had to go there to visit and see about them.

Great idea of having wildlife spawners. I would really enjoy that, love to have deer and other wildlife visit my lots. That one park in Riverview that's woodsy would be perfect for wildlife spawners.

Seems to me that if we have animals which are fully controllable by the players, then it would be pretty stupid to make the stables environment into a rabbit hole. After all, what's the point of having playable animals if you can't play them when they're in their normal housing? That would be like making the sims' houses into rabbit holes, wouldn't it?

I'm just hoping we can have more than one horse...

Wouldn't it be a nice feature if Sims could train young racoons/ racoon babies and keep them as pet?

http://www.simprograms.com/?s=sims+3+unleashed
Small interview and if you scroll down... an interesting picture..

I reaaaaaally hope they have rabbits, or some other small furry animal like a guinea pig.
I will be upset if they don't, though I'll still buy it because I love cats.

I'm fine with one horse... As long as there are sufficient genetic sliders available to procreate a wide variety of them.

i havent read this thread lately, so THANK you :lovestruc

"PC/Mac version contains dogs, cats and also horses. Horses are new in the game, and we are really excited about it."

as a pc player, i'm very happy about this.

"BB: Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo 3DS games are standalone games and do not need The Sims 3 to work. PC/Mac version, however, need The Sims 3 to work."

again, VERY happy to know this will be an expansion for us pc players, and not a stand-alone type of game!

I am excited for this EP. I didn't think I would be so much for a pets EP, considering how underwhelming The Sims 2 Pets was. However, this one looks great. Controllable pets sounds interesting, and horses... We get horses in the PC version, it's confirmed!

Looks like there might finally be an EP worth purchasing. :D

Horses sets it for me. I hope that EA hasn't gone all digital by then, or I won't be getting it at all.

Forget Generations; I want this one! XD

I wonder if they'll have obsessive compulsive as a trait (yes I'm looking at you dog with the obsessive floor licking). Ooh, I wonder if they'll have carriages etc. that horses can pull.

*jumps up and down in seat impatiently*

I'm SOOOOO happy about this! I can finally have my Fireheart in TS3! 8D
And I wonder if modding pets will be easier in TS3? I have high hopes for this.
So glad this is going to be an EP. Digital or not, I'm totally getting this.

I saw this a while ago, I"m already excited for it! Only thing is though I've got a Toshiba laptop and it's only got 4gb of memory. I've already got ambitions and WA and soon going to have generations. I'm not sure if my laptop can hold Pets..

I thought this was fake? I'm too excited about generations to be thinking about pets (Y)

4GB of memory is fine, it is your hard-drive space that will be filling up as you add games. I doubt that a laptop capable of running Sims 3 would only have a 4GB hard-drive.

Okay so it's definitely real. And I can't be more excited about the horses and stray wild animals, like the raccoons and skunks and deer. This game keeps pulling me back in...

The GameplayData file that came with the 1.22 update already has stuff added in on the pets. Like this, or similar: <AgeSpeciesAvailable> and then it has a comment giving the valid entries: Human, Horse, Cat, Dog, LittleDog. There are no other animals available, at least not that I've seen.

If the horses, cats and dogs are the only pets available in the released EP it isn't really enough; although it's very cool if there are actually wild animals like the skunk and deer shown in the vid.

nice :D

Small Dog? Could that be one of those lap dogs from AL?

I am sooooooooooooo excited I really want bunnies, guinea pigs, other small animals too though.

It's possible that other smaller pets could be in the EP, only as objects. Lame, I know, but still.

Remember that TS2 pets had large/small dogs too (and the dog from AL was an object...)

Im right there with you! i loved the pets expansion. My family can now be complete! (In october of course =D)