Unleased is a problem child apparently, but that one seemed oriented to the female market, (I don't have pets for a reason :) so why would I want on in the sims :) Checkout simslice.com, for some unofficial patches that might fix your problems. Having said that, it could be a bad mesh, have you got the filecop? Checks your downloads etc. for duff files, some of those will kill the game stone dead... later jb