My bonedog won't eat

[Shangri-la wrecker]

My bonedog won't eat from my backpack or off of the ground and he's starving. Anyone know why?

[Zorelnam]

What are you feeding him?

[zgrssd]

Bonedogs do not eat spoiled Meat. The only Animal I know that eats it, are Garru (Desert Pack Beasts).
And of course the Non-Prince Hivers.

[larrywlewis]

ignore if you have already done this. get a back pack or a pack animal. . put the food in the back pack/ pack animal OR throw food on the ground.

[Shangri-la wrecker]

Fish, dried meat etc. I'm trying to throw them on the ground. Sometimes he eats it but he wont eat enough and is starving

[Osiris]

They'll eat severed humanoid limbs as well. Mine has done that several times

[Serina]

Are you trying to feed the bonedog pup from the "Guy with a dog" start? You have to wait until they have "digested" their food before they will eat more. I don't know what it's called, but I just think of it that way. Anyway, if you click on your dog, you see the hunger bar? There's either an arrow pointing to the left (meaning they are losing nutrition) or an arrow pointing to the right (meaning they are gaining nutrition). I have noticed characters as well as animals do not eat until they have fully gained the nutrition amount from the food or until their hunger drops around 230ish.

I don't know why he isn't eating from your backpack though. If he eats off the ground, just try to watch that hunger arrow and drop a food for him when he starts losing nutrition (when the arrow is pointing to the left).

[zgrssd]

Originally posted by tyler:

Fish, dried meat etc. I'm trying to throw them on the ground. Sometimes he eats it but he wont eat enough and is starving

Bonedogs have a incredible Hunger Rate of x2.
I never figured out if that only applies to Pups or the Fully grown ones too.

[zgrssd]

Originally posted by Serina:

Are you trying to feed the bonedog pup from the "Guy with a dog" start? You have to wait until they have "digested" their food before they will eat more. I don't know what it's called, but I just think of it that way. Anyway, if you click on your dog, you see the hunger bar? There's either an arrow pointing to the left (meaning they are losing nutrition) or an arrow pointing to the right (meaning they are gaining nutrition). I have noticed characters as well as animals do not eat until they have fully gained the nutrition amount from the food or until their hunger drops around 230ish.

Similar Effects can be seen with the Slave Start, where you are intentionally kept Malnourished.

It needs some time to digest the food, before more can be eaten.

[Serina]

Originally posted by zgrssd:

Bonedogs have a incredible Hunger Rate of x2.
I never figured out if that only applies to Pups or the Fully grown ones too.

Adult also has 2.0 hunger rate.

[Shangri-la wrecker]

Thank you all, hopefully she will start eating from pack

[zgrssd]

Originally posted by tyler:

Thank you all, hopefully she will start eating from pack

If she is still in Digestion, I think she well.

Btw, the Age Modifier will drastically reduce all stats. x0.2 means that only 1/5th of the normal skill result is applied.
So do not wonder if the Pup is glacially slow. This will come more with growing up then training, but the earlier you start training the stronger it will get with age.

[flu007]

Originally posted by zgrssd:

Bonedogs do not eat spoiled Meat. The only Animal I know that eats it, are Garru (Desert Pack Beasts).
And of course the Non-Prince Hivers.

If you're referring to Foul Raw Meat, then bonedogs eat that just fine. As do goats.

[Gopblin]

I had a similar problem with my pets, probably because of the mods tbh. The only sure way I found of fixing it is building an animal feeder. It counts as an outpost but I suppose if you don't want to build a base just to feed animals, simply build&dismantle it right after animals eat something (don't forget to take out the food!).

[flu007]

If you're open to mods, there's one that adds dog backpacks.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=853705461&

I recently installed it and it's just one of those small things that reduces micro-management a bit.

On trips, my dogs would eat from the Garru's backpack, but it was inconsistent, sometimes it'd drop into the 220s before they'd - I assume - happen to be in the right position to get the food, or something. So then I'd get a little ocd about it and start dropping food on the ground etc. Their own backpack takes that off my mind.

It's not game-breaking, it's the inventory space of a small backpack, but with stacks upto 3. So you can basically fit 48 Foul Meat in it and they're good for a while. For sale for 1500 cats, I think, at shops that sell other backpacks.

[Shangri-la wrecker]

Thank you