Animals wont eat corpses

[Jager]

Warg and a husky. I set them to an animal area so that they'd stay away from my meals but they won't go for the tender frozen bodies outside my fortress. What am i missing?

[nakaVS]

Making a small kibble critical stockpile next to their area solved the issue of them starving for me (it that's what is happening to you).

[ShunTheWitch]

Yeah i noticed my wolves not going for the 40+ corpses in my other freezer.

[Emmote]

"tender frozen". Bit of an oxymoron?

I assume they're allowed to be where the bodies are? Are they actually hungry? Is there other food available to them? Are the corpses forbidden? Are you sure they're not eating them (because bodies don't get consumed in 1 feed)? etc..

[Jager]

Originally posted by Emmote:

"tender frozen". Bit of an oxymoron?

I assume they're allowed to be where the bodies are? Are they actually hungry? Is there other food available to them? Are the corpses forbidden? Are you sure they're not eating them (because bodies don't get consumed in 1 feed)? etc..

That was a bit of humor. My pets are starving and all the others I already am aware of. I guess I'll have to make kibble.

[corisai]

Originally posted by JagerVonSeelens:

I set them to an animal area so that they'd stay away from my meals but they won't go for the tender frozen bodies outside my fortress. What am i missing?

And is that animal area include land outside of your forest?

[Jager]

Originally posted by corisai:

Originally posted by JagerVonSeelens:

I set them to an animal area so that they'd stay away from my meals but they won't go for the tender frozen bodies outside my fortress. What am i missing?

And is that animal area include land outside of your forest?

Animal area was everywhere but the kitchen area.

[Ficelle]

Pets wont really go very far to eat.

Best way is to set a stockpile for dead bodies not to far from their sleeping spots.
Put some walls around to avoid too much mood debuffs.
If you can freeze it, it is even better.

Or put their sleeping spots near dead bodies, faster and less work, but less reliable.

[IxianMace]

I've noticed this behaviour as well. The solution is to zone an area near where the dead bodies are stored. For pets like huskies (which produce no animal filth), I let them stay in a small corner in the kitchen. I then mark the areas next door in the freezer where the dead bodies are kept, as part of that zone. The animals should loiter in the kitchen then quickly hop over to consume the corpses when they're hungry.

[ShunTheWitch]

I wish there was more of a way to restrict animals to a certain area for when they are hauling and when they are just being lazy, because then my wolves would be safer instead of having to stay within my massive home zone that does include a small length outside my walls all around and i wish they wouldnt try to hunt as much as ALL THE WONDERFUL CORPSES AND MEAT THERE ARE IN MY TWO FREEZERS, hell those things triggered a dear revenge, which was almost really really bad since the game doesnt make your pets attack something that is hostile within their territory, i have 20 wolves walking around and they see their master and handler getting kicked by a dear but nope we wont help we're too busy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on your crops.

[Jager]

Alright thanks for the tips guys.