The Sims 4: Cats and Dogs doesn’t just let you play around with household pets and treat them. This expansion lets you choose to become a vet and own a clinic for yourself with hired staff to take care of sick animals.
You can craft medicines and perform surgery after diagnosing an illness from the symptoms. One advantage of becoming a vet is treating your sick pets without taking them anywhere. This Sims 4 career guide helps you become a vet and treat sick animals.
How to Become a Vet in The Sims 4?
To start a vet career in Sims 4, you must purchase a clinic with cash. Before starting a clinic, ensure you have a plot of land, a vet podium, an examination table, and a bin. Once you have the basic requirements checked, open the Lot Type menu from the bottom right corner of the screen and make the purchase.
To run your vet clinic, you need $6,000 to acquire the bare minimum of furnishings and space to start up as a Vet. However, it is suggested that you have at least $10,000 in your account to transfer to your business account to run the Vet efficiently.
After purchasing the clinic, you can adjust the price per treatment, hire staff, get staff uniforms, and, lastly, adjust the quality of your treatment.
Once you have bought the Vet clinic, you can decorate it as you like, and once you are happy, start working there as a Vet. Being a Vet, you’ll also learn how to train pets in Sims 4.
How to Diagnose Illness and Treat Patients in Vet Clinic?
Sims will start showing up with their pets after some time, and you can greet them to start examining the pet. The pet will then follow you to the examination room, and you can use the prompt examination to begin your procedures.
You must run several tests to discover the illness(es), such as taking their temperature or checking their skin. After discovering all the symptoms, you can proceed to the treatment menu and treat the illness.
When you’re running treatment on a patient, here’s what you want to remember: a thumb down on treatment means it won’t work, a question mark means it’s unknown, and a thumbs up means it’s the correct treatment option. But note this comes only when you have uncovered all symptoms. After that, you can bill and dismiss the patient.
If none of the treatment options show a thumbs up, surgery is required. Therefore, a surgery station is necessary; if you don’t have one, use the cone of shame, but this will leave your clinic with the worst reviews. After the surgery, bill the patient, but get ready to receive 35 perk points.
Now for the billing, do not charge extra initially. According to the markup percentage, your initial charges for standard examination should be between $100 and $150. Other complex treatments should be charged for as such.
How Perk Points Work?
As you treat your patients, you will start collecting perk points in Sims 4 for your Vet Career. You must complete several daily tasks to earn Perk Points, like hiring an additional vet, treating two patients daily, giving an inspirational speech, and many more.
After you have earned the Perks Points, you can use them to boost your business, such as running an ad or buying a cool jacket.
How to Level Up Vet Skills?
Eventually, your skill level will rise as you treat more and more pets and satisfy their owners. The increase in skill level will, in turn, make it easier for you to discover the symptoms in the pets and then cure them more actively. You will soon be able to calm the pets without using the relaxation serum.
At Veterinarian skill level 5, you will unlock the ability to Soothe Pet Interaction, allowing you to soothe and calm the pets, making it easier to treat them. Since this is your business, you can also choose the prices, hire some help, and set your working hours.
These factors will decide how well your clinic will run in the long run, so you must balance them well. This will give you many profits, so you do not have to be employed in any other job to earn a decent living.
Veterinarian Skill Levels and Rewards
| Level | Perk Points | Reward |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | N/A | Examine pet on the exam table and treat them with limited options; also have access to surgery machine and cone of shame |
| 2 | 200 | Unlocks 2 mailboxes and can craft Swampwater Taffy and Cooler than Liquid Nitrogen Nutrition Bar at medicine crafting table |
| 3 | 300 | Unlocks wall decal and can craft Scorching Cinnamon Chew at medicine crafting table |
| 4 | 400 | Unlocks wall decal, can use Feelgood Serum at exam table, and can craft Stinkinator at medicine crafting table |
| 5 | 400 | Unlocks wall decal, can soothe pets during exam, and can craft Wellness Treats at medicine crafting table |
| 6 | 600 | Unlocks wall decal and can craft Age Up and Age Down treats at medicine crafting table |
| 7 | 700 | Unlocks wall decal and can craft Poop Randomizer at medicine table |
| 8 | 800 | Unlocks wall decal |
| 9 | 900 | Can perform Lubricate Tailwagger Joint surgery using surgery machine |
| 10 | 1,000 | Unlocks the vet clinic door and can craft Ambrosia Treat at medicine crafting table |
How to Boost Star Ratings?
Your clinic’s star rating determines your progress as a veterinarian and the number of patients you receive.
After visiting your clinic, each customer leaves a star rating that adds up to your clinic’s average star rating. The following are the factors that affect your clinic’s star rating.
Wait Time
The longer the wait time, the less satisfied the customers are. To improve the star rating, you should be able to tend to a number of patients at a time so that no patients have to wait any longer than the others. You can achieve this by hiring employees relative to your star rating.
Environment
The environment of your clinic is an important factor in attracting customers. A beautiful and well-decorated clinic will attract more customers and gain more star ratings.
Treatment Quality
Of course, the quality of the treatment given to the pet will determine the ratings their sims give you. If you can discover all the symptoms on the pet and treat them successfully, then their sim will leave you a good star rating.
Pet Stress
The star rating is also tied to your ability to soothe and calm the pet while being treated. This also marks the level of satisfaction of the pet owners.
How to Hire Employees for Vet Clinic?
As more customers start rolling in, you will need employees to handle some of them while you work in the clinic. You will see a register in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.
You can hire, fire, promote, and demote an employee in that register. At first, the option for hiring is not unlocked, but you can unlock it using perk points.
This will allow customers to get the services they need while the Veterinarian is home. You can hire a veterinarian by heading to the bottom-right menu and selecting ‘manage employees.’
Picking an employee with lower-level skills ensures cheaper pay, so go for those with higher vet and charisma skills.
The employees will gradually improve their working skills, but you can speed it up by paying a small training fee.
Employees who level up will require a higher salary, so try to satisfy their needs to keep them productive.
You can rank them higher by hitting the promote button on the employee management screen. In addition, you can compliment them on their job performance.
How to Make Money Playing a Vet?
Playing like a vet can help you make money in various ways. The first and most obvious is charging patients for diseases. You can also charge them for monthly vaccines.
Not just that, you can also put pet treats in a vending machine at your clinic and sell them for a markup
How to Buy and Sell a Vet Clinic?
To start with the process, first, you need to buy a lot that will be designated as a vet clinic lot type. Then you have the option to choose the outfit for your lot.
After that, you will be provided a list of items you must buy to be classified as a vet clinic. Some items include a vet podium, exam table, waste disposal, medicine craft Matic vending machine, and vacuum.
The right-hand corner of the screen contains a clinic register. In your vet career in Sims 4, you can access a menu to sell your pet clinic using that register.
Vet Cheats
There are several cheat codes that you can utilize being a vet. We have categorized all of them in the separate categories that you can find below:
Vet Clinic Perks
These cheats directly influence your veterinary clinic in terms of rewards and incentives.
- Hire a veterinarian: bucks.unlock_perk AdditionalVet_1 true
- Hire one more veterinarian: bucks.unlock_perk AdditionalVet_2 true
- Control the cost and quality of veterinary supplies: Bucks.unlock_perk SupplyQuality true
- Increase the number of people who visit your veterinary clinic: bucks.unlock_perk vetperks MoreCustomers true
- This cheat makes patients more pleasant and less irritable throughout the waiting time: bucks.unlock_perk vetperks_LengthenImpatienceTimeout true
- To motivate/buff staff, use the “Inspirational Speech” talent: bucks.unlock_perk vetperks_InspirationalSpeechSocial true
- Employee training expenditures are reduced: bucks.unlock_perk vetperks_LowerEmployeeTrainingCost true
- This cheat reduces the likelihood of catastrophes when your management sim is gone: bucks.unlock_perk vetperks_LowerChanceBadEvents_Small true
- Reduce the stress on your pet throughout all operations: bucks.unlock_perk ReducePetStress true
- Instantly unlock the vet coat for your Sims: bucks.unlock_perk UnlockCASItem true
Vet Skills
- Your Vet skill is instantly maxed up. stats.set_skill_level Major_Vet 10
- Your pet’s Pet Training ability is quickly maxed up. stats.set_skill_level skill_Dog 5
Sims Traits
- This cheat increases affection for animals: traits.equip_trait Attraction
Friendship Levels
- Enhance a sim’s and a pet’s relationship: modifyrelationship {PlayedSimFirstName} {PlayedSimLastName} {TargetSimFirstName} {TargetSimLastName} 100 LTR_SimToPet_Friendship_Main
- Reduce a sim’s and a pet’s relationship: modifyrelationship {PlayedSimFirstName} {PlayedSimLastName} {TargetSimFirstName} {TargetSimLastName} -100 LTR_SimToPet_Friendship_Main
Careeer Cheats
- Boost Career as a Veterinarian: careers.add_career Vet
- Obtain a promotion in the field of veterinary medicine: careers.promote Vet
- Resign from your position as a veterinarian: careers.remove_career Vet
- This cheat allows you to retire as soon as possible and begin earning retirement perks: careers.retire Vet
Kill Pets
- Obtain a pet’s identification number required to apply the next cheat: sims.get_sim_id_by_name {PlayedPetFirstName} {PlayedPetLastName}
- Transform your pet into a spirit by killing it: traits.equip_trait Ghost_OldAge {Pet ID}
Vet Mods
There are hundreds of mods for your pets, but we have will provide a list of best mods that you can use while pursuing your career as a vet.
Animal Lover Trait
If you want to be a vet career in Sims 4 but are unsure, you will love the animals lover trait mod. This mod will make your sims real animal lovers. After using this mod, your Sims will spend more time with their pets and develop a fascination with becoming a veterinarian.
Praise Vet Employees All You Want
You will love this mod if you’re the Vet Clinic manager who enjoys complimenting your staff repeatedly. After using this mod, the limitations on how many times you can praise have been lifted.
Animal Rescue Career
This mod is for those who want to pursue a career in caring for animals but don’t have the money and resources to build a clinic. You can spend more time with animals by working in a dog shelter or owning your own shelter.
Hire Whoever for the Vet Clinic
If you want to hire your loved one for your clinic but lack the skills or interest in becoming a vet, you can use this mod to solve this problem.
Playable Pet Mod
Controlling these small furry creatures can be challenging, whether you have a vet career or not in Sims 4. Using this mod, you can gain more control over the pet and obey your orders to eat, sleep, drink, and much more.
