Pet FoodFollow

The 35 means that the food is high enough level to give your pet maximum happiness. The lower numbers mean that your pet was not very hungry when you fed it. You do not need to feed your pet until the green icon next to your pet portrait turns yellow. Then just one quail is all you need to feed it to max out its happiness if you feed it shortly after the icon turns from green to yellow. The only exception to this is if your pet dies. Dying tends to make pets unhappy. Go figure. You may have to feed it twice after a death.

That's what was weird. I was grinding in un'goro, noticed the dog was content...fed him, he went happy...for about two fights and was content again. WTF? Usually he stays happy for 20 or 30 minutes. So that's when I noticed the "problem".

So maybe he wasn't hungry enough, but isn't the point of keeping them happy to maximize the damage they do? Happy 125% damage Content 100%? Seems that he became unhappy much quicker than normal. He was taking enormous damage (not dying) getting whittled down to almost nothing in these fights, maybe that's a factor.

I like the Windserpent for its diet of bread. Muffin Man Moser in the Shattrath lower city sells bread, and my Hearth has been set there since about 62nd. And on raids or in groups with a Mage I get a stack of summoned bread and save a Gold or two on keeping the Pet happy during the run.

I hate buying pet food. It’s more psychological than financial. If I have to buy food then I’ve done something wrong. Even with my pink tallstrider (fruit, fungus & cheese) I never bought food.

Outland is indeed a great area for pets, especially meat eaters. If I’m not mistaken both Buzzard Bites and Ravager Dogs will give maximum happiness even to level 70 pets and those are skill 300 recipes that are both cheap and plentiful. At higher levels we can make a lot of other meat dishes as well. There are also fish dishes to be made for pets that eat fish. And if your pet eats fruit there’s a quest reward that can summon an endless supply of fruit. Outland is very pet food friendly.

I would hate to waste ravager dogs on my pet!

Outlands is pretty good for fishing too, so I often have my windserpent eating trout after I've been fishing for crawdads and darters.

you don't have to buy food> i was so dumb wasting gold on quails. then i realized every beast drops meat. everything from buzzard things, clefthoof meat, my favorite chunk'o'basilik, serpent flesh, you name it, meat drops from every beast.
BUT...only if you have a flesh ripping owl or a "trash can" boar :P

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