Fallout 4 What Does Dogmeat Eat?

[pjedilord]

What does Dogmeat eat? does she not get rads? does radaway work for her if
she gets rads? Why cant we feed or play fetch with Dogmeat?

[Ginko]

About what she eats have you ever thoguht of photosynthesis?

[mezzicstorm]

dog food. found all over the commonwealth.

[Liquid Inc]

Well, like a lot of dogs, their poop, other dog's' poop, and even other animal poop...
Radstag is probably pretty smelly, so that means highly attractive to a dog...
Dog's really are disgusting aren't they?

Originally posted by mezzicstorm:

dog food. found all over the commonwealth.

That too ^
As well as any form of meat like Brahmin, bloatfly, or radstag. I can't imagine they'd be very picky on that...



anyway, as far as i know, Dogmeat is a male dog?

[jynx]

Whatever's left of his enemies, flambe ftw.

[pjedilord]

Originally posted by Liquid Inc:

Well, like a lot of dogs, their poop, other dog's' poop, and even other animal poop...
Radstag is probably pretty smelly, so that means highly attractive to a dog...
Dog's really are disgusting aren't they?

Originally posted by mezzicstorm:

dog food. found all over the commonwealth.

That too ^
As well as any form of meat like Brahmin, bloatfly, or radstag. I can't imagine they'd be very picky on that...



anyway, as far as i know, Dogmeat is a male dog?

Is Dogmeat in prequels or 76? female did thread.

[jynx]

Every version of Fallout has some version of Dogmeat. Some former Black Isle programmers even had a similar character in Arcanum. As far as canon goes he's a male.

[Bugscuttle]

Yeah Dogmeat makes his first appearance in FO 1. He is the bestest boy!
(or the goodest girl. You can choose!)

[Solomon Hawk]

If Dogmeat is set to guard, at least put a dog bowl down next to his/her dog house (for the sake of quasi-realism).
Cats tend to stay around their bowls.
Dogs (including Dogmeat) tends to hang around a doghouse if you put one down.
But as far as what Dogmeat actually eats????
I've never seen Dogmeat eat anything (honestly, if I were Dogmeat, I wouldn't eat anything either). It's a nasty wasteland out there.
But Dogmeat will play with (I'm guessing) a teddy bear occasionally. It's cleverly hidden somewhere and only Dogmeat knows how to find it.
But I guess you can conveniently place a teddybear in Dogmeat's inventory for your own self reassurance that you're not hallucinating. Why Dogmeat isn't equipped with a K-9 backpack is one of those "it just defies logical sense" kind of things. Probably for the same crazy reason we're not using backpacks to imitate our own inventory.

Who knows? Maybe that's a jerky flavored, tough as nails, indestructable teddy bear. (You know: A dog chew toy).

BUT
I strongly suspect Dogmeat is actually a Synth and that's probably why Dogmeat doesn't eat.

Now that I think of it. Why bother with Institute spy birds when you can have normal looking, unmutated dogs for spies? There's even a fella who goes around selling one and if you buy it, he'll show up later with another dog to sell.
Shoot, even raiders have them. (Probably bought them off that guy too unless he gave them the dogs so they would spare his life). Sure, just like they extort those poor farmers for food.
Piece of Cake simple.

I know I've read posts about those "Spy birds", but I have never seen any topic about the possibility of those dogs being synth "spies". Come to think about it, who would suspect it? People LOVE dogs.
I'm surprised.. we never see any puppies or kittens.

[Bugscuttle]

It's the same logic that allows Bloatflies to drop Missile Launchers.

I always carry cans of dog food and let The Good Boy carry his bowl. Also have a mod that allows him a K9 harness/backpack that I kevlar-weave up to keep him safe...until he sets off every trap in a five mile radius while I'm trying to sneak.

[DouglasGrave]

When even the player character can take perks to prevent radiation damage from food, Dogmeat may just eat whatever he likes.

Originally posted by jynx:

Whatever's left of his enemies, flambe ftw.

Based on the Cannibal perk (which doesn't give you rads as far as I can recall), he should be fine eating normal human corpses even if he has no special resistance to radiation, and it's not like the Commonwealth has any shortage of raiders.

[Danny]

Dogmeat just eats the meat of what ever unfortunate dumbass stupid enough to get in front of my turrets.
The last few attacks, he (she?) had Super Mutant and mutant hound on the menu...
Also had the odd deathclaw die to my turrets. ^^

[Liquid Inc]

Originally posted by DouglasGrave:

Based on the Cannibal perk (which doesn't give you rads as far as I can recall), he should be fine eating normal human corpses even if he has no special resistance to radiation, and it's not like the Commonwealth has any shortage of raiders.

it does give rads, but it's only +3 rads (or is in my own game) which is soon nullified by radiation protection of various sources...

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by Liquid Inc:

Originally posted by DouglasGrave:

Based on the Cannibal perk (which doesn't give you rads as far as I can recall), he should be fine eating normal human corpses even if he has no special resistance to radiation, and it's not like the Commonwealth has any shortage of raiders.

it does give rads, but it's only +3 rads (or is in my own game) which is soon nullified by radiation protection of various sources...

Really? Okay, I admit I don't use Cannibal much, and like Lead Belly so I may just not have noticed it.

[Xenon The Noble]

since SS eats mongrels, I guess dogmeat should eat raiders.

[jynx]

Originally posted by Xenon The Noble:

since SS eats mongrels, I guess dogmeat should eat raiders.

Why stop there?