Pets have motives like their Sim counterparts. In Create-a-Pet, players may customize a cat or dog by choosing patterns and colors of coat, body shape, facial structure, and personality, which determines playfulness, neatness, loyalty, aggression, and intelligence.
Create-A-Pet is similar to 'Create-a-Sim', where a user builds a human Sim characters. Pets features 75 pre-made breeds of dogs and thirty pre-made breeds of cats. Sims can own cats, dogs, birds and gerbils.
It was also sold as a stand-alone game for several consoles. The Sims 2: Pets is the fourth expansion pack in The Sims 2 series of games published by Electronic Arts. Consolle Game Boy Advance SP Blue + Cartridge The Sims 2 Pets Working, see pictures.