Feed Pet allows hunters to maintain the happiness and loyalty levels of their pets. If either of these two pet stats dip below certain default percentages, the pet will become unruly and may eventually abandon the Hunter. One can keep track of a pet's happiness level easily using the happy face icon beside the pet's display on the UI. Also, in the pet's attributes dialog, the happiness icon also shows the food types a given pet will consume.
You can gain this ability at level 10 by completing the Hunter training quests. You will gain the 
[Tame Beast] ability before you gain the Feed Pet ability so make sure to complete the quest line before trying to tame a pet.
Functionality
- Left click on the Feed Pet icon (in your spellbook or if you put it in your action bar), then left click on a food item. This will feed your pet and increase your pet's happiness and loyalty.
or
- Drag a food item from your backpack and drop it either on your pet portrait or on the pet itself in the game world. Besides being very intuitive it has the advantage of avoiding the use of a Feed Pet icon button/keybinding/macro.
Limitations
- While not a limitation of the Feed Pet ability itself, not keeping track of your pet's happiness and loyalty will hamper their ability to fight and impact your experience levels.
- Pets do not gain much happiness being fed food below their level. This means feeding your pet can get very expensive quickly.
- Having to keep food for your pet requires you to use up slots in your bags for food, limiting what you can carry.
- Feeding your pet does not increase its happiness instantly. Wait for the "Feed Pet Effect" buff on your pet to disappear or watch the Combat Log for "Feed Pet Effect fades".
- Pets cannot be fed in combat and the effect disappears if the pet deals/receives any damage.
Feeding Tips
- Food for most pets can be purchased from vendors.
- Take up Fishing and choose a pet that will eat fish. This will save money as compared to buying food, but fishing can take a lot of time, so there's a trade off.
- Fishing also helps improve Cooking faster which in turn provides better food from fishing. In other words, take up Cooking also.
- Pets that eat bread can eat food conjured by mages.
- Keep your pet happy and loyal.
- Monitor the Combat Log of your chat box to see how much happiness your pet gets from the food. Gains are either 8, 17, or 35 per tick.
- Pets which eat meat will eat the meat which is not food to you (no health restored tooltip), uncooked (for example,
[Mystery Meat]). It is frequently top tier, happiness wise, if the mobs are your pet's level. - If your pet eats fish, cooked fish is amazingly cheap at fishing-related vendors. For example, a full stack of
[Longjaw Mud Snapper] is less than 1 silver and pets up to 36 will eat it for middle (17 per tick) happiness gain. - If your pet has a DoT debuff (from a poison or bleed effect), make sure to use [Mend Pet] or wait for the DoT effect to end before feeding it. Otherwise, the next tick of damage will cancel the Feed effect.
Pet Diets
- Bats (excluding Spore Bats) - Fruit, Fungus
- Bears - Fruit, Fungus, Cheese, Bread, Meat, Fish
- Boars - Fruit, Fungus, Cheese, Bread, Meat, Fish
- Carrion Birds (aka Vultures) - Meat, Fish
- Cats (including lions and sabers) - Meat, Fish
- Crabs - Bread, Fruit, Fish, Fungus
- Crocolisks - Meat, Fish
- Dragonhawks - Fruit, Meat, Fish
- Gorillas - Fungus, Fruit
- Hyenas - Fruit, Meat
- Nether Rays - Meat
- Owls - Meat
- Raptors - Meat
- Ravagers - Meat
- Scorpids - Meat
- Serpents - Meat, Fish
- Spiders - Meat
- Spore Bats - Fruit, Fungus, Cheese, Bread
- Tallstriders (aka Striders) - Fruit, Fungus
- Turtles - Fruit, Fungus, Fish
- Warp Stalkers - Fish, Fruit
- Wind Serpents - Bread, Fish, Cheese
- Wolves (including Worgs) - Meat
Feeding UIs
http://www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=163
See also: Hunter Tactics
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