coop animals gone

So, i’ve seen that it’s been a very common bug where the cat disappears before year 2 when doing coop split screen but i’ve never seen anyone have the issue where you then go buy a new cat and the hearts aren’t going up? i find this kind of a big problem because we need the cat at high hearts...

I’m playing on console in a multiplayer world and both my cousin and I’s coup and barn animals disappeared. We’re playing on the mountain farm and it happened during the calico egg event. I’ve read about other people dealing with this from a few months ago and it looks like it still hasn’t been...