
Keep the food bowl full, wait until the pet's Fun and Social become totally red, then take away the food bowl. The easiest way to force a pet to become a stray is to wall up the pet in a room with nothing but a food bowl. The game will not replace strays who are adopted however, a cat or dog owned by player-controlled Sims will join the Strays family if it is neglected. They can learn skills, but their lack of personality points can only be changed if the player uses a third-party program or hacked object.

All the default strays in Unleashed have zero personality points and no skills. Unlike Townies in other expansion packs of The Sims, the game does not randomly generate the Strays: they are the same in every neighborhood, and in all games.
