Animals in Cottage living constantly dying even though aging is turned off

I play on PS5, I have 13 DLCs. Cottage Living was the first pack I got around 2 years ago. At first it all worked fine. I tend to play in rotation as in I'll play with one family for a few in game days and then I'll switch to another family and so on~ each with different narratives so to say. The animals I have aging off due to this context but now no matter in which fam I olay, they die~ always have the one last pet text and so on. I proceed to buy another animal and say I play for a little there~ then switch to another family and the same thing happens~ then say I go BACK to the family that just purchased say~ a cow and then a repeat, it dies. That didn't happen before... I don't know of it's the more DLCs I have the more the game breaks or the original idea I had of the game is no longer or is the updates but this actually really annoying and doesn't make me want to buy animals anymore cause it's just a waste of time (sim money) and energy EVEN when the no dying option is on which of course is devastating cause it's such an important part of the pack... help! 

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