I seem to have lost some of my dog breeds. I've only really noticed the fact that I no longer have a pug, so I'm not sure which other breeds are missing.
Has this happened to anyone else? If so, how did you fix it? I'm really reluctant to uninstall the game and then reinstall it, because it took me ages to install it in the first place.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Please do the steps in the Game Problem FAQ, specifically the Removing User files and Custom Content parts. There might be a problem with your user files or some piece of CC that's causing the pet breeds to disappear. Let us know if you have any questions.

I tried to do all that last night, but the game kept crashing. It looks like I'm going to have to re-install

Reinstalling rarely solves these kinds of problems. What happened immediately before it started crashing? Did you try moving your user files to your desktop and running the game?

Yeah, I tried that. It seems to be a particular "town" that's crashing whenever I try to play it. I seem to have it working okay just now, so I'll just forget the pet breeds that are missing and continue to play.