Should I let my pets eat corpses?
After I acquire the particular intrinsic conveyed by a corpse, I most often let my pets eat the rest (unless I need food). I've looked on the wiki, but haven't found anything about whether this allows the pet to also acquire that intrinsic. It would be nice to know if my large cat/dog/warhorse is or isn't fireproof before entering Gehennom. This question extends to Giants for strength, and any other corpse-borne benefits as well.
Do pets (particularly, horses,dogs, and cats) gain intrinsics and/or or other benefits from eating corpses?
Best Answer
Yes, let the pets eat!
Pets gain tameness eating. The only time you might not want them to eat (other than the obvious you want the intrinsic) a corpse is when there are other enemies around however I think they'll attack first and eat later.
Sometimes you might want to get rid of a corpse - a troll for example, pets are ideal for this!.
However, pets cannot get intrinsic's by eating - however some are born with them (such as dragons).
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Will pets eat a dead body?
Yes. Dogs are perfectly willing to eat human corpses, and there's no evidence that they treat their masters differently than any other dead body. Many cultures consider dogs unclean precisely because of their tendency to scavenge our remains. In The Iliad, Homer makes nine references to dogs eating dead bodies.Do dogs eat their owners corpses?
When dogs scavenged dead owners indoors, 73 percent of cases involved bites to the face, and just 15 percent had bites to the abdomen. By contrast, canines scavenging outdoors have a well-documented pattern, opening the chest and abdomen to eat the nutrient-rich organs early on, followed by the limbs.How long until my dog eats my dead body?
Dogs normally don't eat you immediately after you die. But there's always an exception to the rule. Unlike wild animals, there's usually a "waiting period" before a domesticated dog will ravish your body.Will a cat eat its owners corpse?
\u201cBoth domestic dogs and cats will scavenge deceased humans, particularly in cases where they are shut into a house [or] apartment and have no other source of food and water.\u201dWOULD YOUR CAT OR DOG EAT YOUR CORPSE?
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