Familiars without zomgPets installed?
jolrei:
Pet noise adds verisimilitude. Reminds me of where I lived when I was a 12; there were always dogs barking at night there too, and the occasional time-challenged rooster crowing at 3:30am. No roosters crowing in TS2, it seems.
Zazazu:
Heck, there are always dogs barking at night where I live in the middle of the city. Just as much as in the Sims. I live in a very dog-friendly subhood...even some of the midrises allow dogs. Of course, my simmies don't have to deal with hearing ambulances (I live by a bunch of nursing homes/55+ homes) and public transportation at all hours. Brats.
HomeschooledByTards:
Almost any sort of noise or light will keep me from falling asleep at night. My first apartment was right behind a row of houses, and every house owner had at least one dog. These dogs would bark constantly all night long, which wasn't too bad during the summer/winter when I kept my windows closed. However, this apartment complex had the type of heating/cooling system that required being shutdown and switched over from heating to cooling and vice versa.
They would normally shut the A/C off about mid-September and turn the heat on in late-October. Then they'd turn off the heat in mid-May and the A/C on in mid-June. So for about three months out of the year I had to keep my windows open at night, and most nights I wouldn't be able to fall asleep until after two am because of the damn dogs.
I was so happy when I moved into my next apartment. Not only did they not shut down the heating system for the entire complex twice a year, but I was no where near barking dogs!
Liz:
I really don't have any trouble sleeping with noise outside. Grew up near the airport, then moved across town to a house about a block from the train tracks. Trains also nearby during boarding school and Uni. Now I live in a packed city in an area that has ambulances, taxis and buses zooming by all night. If I don't have background noise, it's nearly impossible to fall asleep. Lights on or off doesn't fuss me either way.
The aircon in our flat is strictly window units, and our building has no heating at all. Not that we'd need it more than, say, a month out of the year, but some of those nights get fricking freezing, if only because the cinderblock/concrete walls are fiendishly efficient at trapping the cold air, somehow managing to make it actually colder inside than out.
SickPuppy:
Quote from: cwykes on 2008 October 23, 12:43:14
I've got to quite like the pet noise around the 'hood. It's better than the music anyway.
I usually praise the cats for yowling and running around crazily in a catnip induced frenzy. Hey, it makes me laff...
Don't like that music and TV wake up the pets though...it offers up the dilemma of do I unlock the bedroom doors to critters who's deepest desire is to make kindling of my expensive beds, or worse yet..give the dagblamed varmints their own room :o
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