few questions about the new pets dlc

[SaladSlasher]

I recently bought the new dlc and I'm really happy about it.
Still I got a few questions.

1. Do cats and dogs get older by time? I adopted a young dog and wanted to take it with me on my jobs to carry my paintbucket, but it said the dog is too young. will it get older someztime or shuld i adopt an adult dog?

2. are there any male european shorthair cats? I only got female ones but want a male one to resenble my real cat. Its not that important to me im just curious.

3. Is there a way to fix the two little 'problems' with cheating (similar to the money or skill cheat?) like is it possible to just change the gender of my cat or the age of my dog via cheating?

thanks in advance for your answers.

[InvaderRae]

1. You need to interact with the pets. Such as wash the dog, play fetch, give treat. Or pet the cat, give treat, etc. And they will grow over time with attention.

2. The pets are randomised. I don't know if it updates every time you log in, or if it's every so often. But I check it once every time I play and the selection of breed, age, and gender changes.

3. Not that I know of.

[Mochi]

you can't *cheat* their gender or age, but you *can* edit the pet's game data by going to C > Users > (you) > AppData > LocalLow > Empyrean > House Flipper Game > Profiles > (your profile) > Pets > UserSaves

the pets are numbered in the order you adopted them. open the .dat file of the pet you want to edit and scroll until you find "petStats". you can change a bunch of different variables here. i recommend making a copy of the file you're changing first just in case you break something, but for the variables you asked about:

age: 0 = puppy/kitten, 1 = young, 2 = adult
gender: 0 = male, 1 = female

for age, you will also need to change the "growUpCount" value to match the new age value or they'll get stuck on things and glitch out as they try to move around because the AI will think the dog is still the age they started at, but they'll have the hitbox of whatever age you set them to. you may also encounter pets kind of bugging out after doing this (i noticed with my large breed dogs) but popping them in the pet hotel and bringing them back out seems to remedy that.

[SaladSlasher]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!