Do I need to take care of the dog?

[HalunkenMücke]

Hi,
do I actually need to take care of the dog or can I just leave him at the mill? Will Theresa be mad if I ignore the dog?

[Bob]

how do you get the dog? Dlc?

[HalunkenMücke]

I think so.
I got him after the intro at the mill from Theresa.

[freerangechikn]

Theresa is a nice piece of ass

[Maddy]

It's from A Woman's Lot DLC. You can leave him at the mill with no problem.

However if you do want to have him around, you have to feed him meat ocasionally so he won't leave you or disobey you. Everytime you give him food his trust towards you gets higher

[bbfloyd]

Dog is pretty useful, and 98% mostly not a nuisance. He is very easy to keep 100% loyal/obedient, occasional food and kind words. I've never left him at the mill to bother T.

[d333]

Dog can be really useful against groups of bandits and finding treasure. I just tell him he is a good dog when I dismount or after a fight. I keep smoked sausages or salami as treat as it spoils very slowly. He is useful for hunting rabbits too.

[HalunkenMücke]

Alright, thanks for the answers guys :)

[d333]

Btw, I seem to gain more xp to houndmaster by praising and then feeding Mutt in the same dialog rather than separately.

[mingyu]

Originally posted by d333:

Dog can be really useful against groups of bandits and finding treasure. I just tell him he is a good dog when I dismount or after a fight. I keep smoked sausages or salami as treat as it spoils very slowly. He is useful for hunting rabbits too.

Exactly, smoked sausages are the most cost-effective dog food. Even better is to get him to hunt a hare and then feed him hare meat!

[mingyu]

Originally posted by d333:

Btw, I seem to gain more xp to houndmaster by praising and then feeding Mutt in the same dialog rather than separately.

Yes, maintain Mutt at 100% obedience by praising then feeding him. Feeding Mutt causes his menu to close, while praising him brings you back to the menu, so praising him first saves you some bother having to open the menu again.

You can also try praising then feeding Mutt multiple times. After a fight, when Mutt's obedience goes down after he has taken a few hits, I praise him and feed him a sausage at least twice to bring his obedience level up quickly.

I find that Mutt tends to run away more if I set him to "Aggressive" before a fight; he really goes for the enemy and takes more hits. I only do this if it is a bad situation and I need his help to escape. Otherwise, I set him to "Free" and keep my distance from the enemies, riding or running away to cause them to separate, then turning back when the last guy has stopped chasing me and siccing Mutt on him and attacking him as he walks back to his camp. Nowadays I am heavily armoured enough to be able to survive most fights, so I keep Mutt at "Free". If I get ambushed, I let Mutt decide what to do, and only sic him on my opponent if I really need help; for example, to distract a heavily-armoured opponent so I can land a blow on him.