Idle Observation - Dog Food

[Haunt Fox]

Anyone notice how rare canned dog food is? In trying to build/maintain dog and cat cages ... I know I can hunt along waterlines for softshell mirelurks but dog food ... ? I find it's hard to come across this stuff.

Did the Fallout universe not have any animal shelters/dog pounds? :P Were dogs as pets rare? And why no cat food? Does cat food taste that much better, that wastelanders already ate it all up? O.o

(Yes, I know there's now a craftable canned dog food mod, it's fairly new. Wasn't going to bother with it, but now I'm beginning to realize why the modder made it ...)

[casualsailor]

I had not noticed this. But I seem to find dog food where you'd expect to find dog food, i.e. at the super duper mart, red rocket stations, diners, and scattered around people homes.

I tended to only eat Cram since its rad/hp ratio to weight was most acceptable compared to all other prepared foods so I wasn't actively seeking out dog food. But I don't remember it being particularly rare.

[a Hippobottomus]

This made me realize the lack of types of buildings in fallout 4, having a pet store would be pretty cool, or other random buildings that don't exist.

[Haunt Fox]

Originally posted by casualsailor:

I had not noticed this. But I seem to find dog food where you'd expect to find dog food, i.e. at the super duper mart, red rocket stations, diners, and scattered around people homes.

I tended to only eat Cram since its rad/hp ratio to weight was most acceptable compared to all other prepared foods so I wasn't actively seeking out dog food. But I don't remember it being particularly rare.

Well, as I said, I don't eat it, I save it for building/fixing traps. I've been messing around with settlement mods, so mostly spending time zipping between the four or five I've got totally built up, and run out of dog food easily.

(And I haven't even touched Concord yet; this is meant to be a BoS playthrough, because in my thousand or so hours of playing, I still haven't seen this "Liberty Prime" thing I've heard about. I'm mostly just messing with what I can do with small settlements + a treehouse platform + sim settlers. And no, I didn't notice the relative rarity of dog food until this time around, either - lots of Cram and Salisbury steak and such - I have modded recipes for that stuff - but dog food? Catch as catch can with that, even in the abandoned old stores. It's like people preferred to eat pet food, over the equivalent of Spam and Swanson's TV Dinners. And now that I think about it ....)

[Jirki88]

I remember finding a lot of dog food whereever Super Mutants reside.

[Haunt Fox]

Originally posted by Jirki88:

I remember finding a lot of dog food whereever Super Mutants reside.

Hmm. Good point, seeing as how they usually have ... dog-things around (though I'd just assume Supermutants would feed their pet monsters long pig, the same as they eat themselves, but hey, maybe they think that's too good for their dog-monsters ...)

:P

(You know, I probably have as much fun modding tes/fo and talking about silly little things in them, as I do playing. Anyway, it's probably a good week for silly small talk about nothing.)

[Jirki88]

Could also be because of where the Super Mutants reside. Have you noticed that they always seem to occupy hospitals or hotels?

[Haunt Fox]

Originally posted by Jirki88:

Could also be because of where the Super Mutants reside. Have you noticed that they always seem to occupy hospitals or hotels?

..Why would hospitals for humans have dog food? ... Come to think, no veterinary offices around, either. Huh.

Hotels, I can see, at least ones that allow pets, though I doubt they'd keep it in their supply rooms

[Bored Peon]

There is these things called vendors and traders. They carry it trading for it will provide you wiht more than you will ever find.