More Dogs

Ernest Thao is still working hard on his wish to become friends with 15 dogs. So far he has four of his own, and of course he's still friends with the two dogs his parents adopted when he was a teen.
In addition he is now friends with the Bingsley's dog Lilly, Stacia McGovern's dog Sheba and Raphael and Gina Bernard's little dachshund Jimmy, who accidentally wandered into the Thao yard one day...

In spring several new Sims moved into the town (mostly immigrant workers to take up role positions) and one of these families (who all live together in the trailer camp on Romani Isle) is the Hick family. Mama Hick, her son Elden and her daughter Erys (formerly known as Wallflower - she's a Sims 1 NPC created by Frisbud at TSR).
The Hick family have three dogs: Bobo, Leroy and Duke.

After a couple of visits to the trailer park Ernest befriends all three of them, giving him 12 canine friends. There are five more dogs on the island, and he's determined to make friends of them all.

Yi Quan Kim and his wife Wu have lived next to the Thao family for years, so Ernest needs no excuse to visit them. Of course they do think it's funny that he spends more time playing with their dog than talking to them...

Later that day Ernest visits the dog park, but the only dog he finds there is the late Smokey Adams. He still has a good time, though. (The raccoon seems to think he can do better?)

The next day Ernest visits his old friend Raphael Bernard. He's already friends with one of his dogs, but he never met the other, a big terrier-like dog called Rags.
After spending some time making polite conversation with Raphael, Ernest concentrates on getting to know this dog. It takes him all afternoon to make friends with him - especially since Rags refuses to go outside to play fetch and kept walking away to eat or go to sleep on the sofa...

By dinnertime Rags and Ernest are very good friends, though. After a last good brushing, Ernest goes home. However, on his way there he meets Walter Westboro, and they talk a bit.
Ernest decides to go home with Walter. (In other words, he follows him home and rings his doorbell...)
The Westboro family have a big bloodhound-like dog called Desperado. Walter thinks it's a bit childish for a grown man to roll around on the floor playing with a dog, but he takes advantage of the fact that he doesn't have to entertain his guest, and watches the game on tv.

Just before midnight, Desperado decides that he wants to be friends with Ernest. So Ernests gets his lifetime wish. He still has two more dogs to meet, but for now he has to go home, go to sleep and maybe concentrate on his actual JOB for a change!