I’m not done after all!
Firstly I must announce:

Unfortunately it turns out I’m still not done talking about The Sims! Normally when I go into a Sims/ city-building/ park-building game phase I feel the need to tell everybody about it in a big flurry, but then I soon stop wanting to screenshot everything or report on every detail. I thought I’d got there but apparently not, because I did a bad thing.
So, since Sims 4 doesn’t want to run on my laptop I started another Sims 3 save set later in life. The idea is that the kids have the original house and 3 of the horses, but Will and me took the original horse, dog, and cat, to Moonlight Falls, built the best rendition of our house yet, and had a chill life.
However. Something went wrong. A ghost neighbour was all “Hey, our dog just had puppies, come and adopt one!” and I was like, I’ll go and see the puppies but we don’t need a house full of animals again. Puppy named Scout accidentally came home with me. I met a kitten. It physically hurt me to see it’s adorable mannerisms as it ran around. I *accidentally* added the kitten to my family. Then Will accidentally adopted a pet via the phone services. We now have 3 cats and 2 dogs. But hey, it’s only the one horse! It still feels a lot less chaotic than my main save with FOUR HORSES.
I think making our original dog an elder was a mistake, some of the mannerisms are painful reminders of things going on with Freya. I might edit him back down to a normal adult (testingcheatsenabled true club 4 lyfe).