Ushi No Tane - Harvest Moon

cats will carry your chickens outside on sunny days and bring them in at night and dogs bring your cows outside on sunny days and bring them in at night but once you have purchased a cat or a dog you can't sell them and also they will only do this if you give them pet food (purchase at general store and put it in the yellow trough-like thing to the right side of your house door)

Oh, that's good to know!

Clove, I have noticed that in my game when I use the bell my animals do actually line up in the order in which I bought them. I don't know if it's just my game or what, but I also don't have multiple cows of one type to get confused on.

The bell is useful in that all the animals will line up, and then if you start at the far end you can collect them all and push them into the barn in one try.

I think it would also be useful if you are increasing the productivity, but they don't stay in place long enough imo, since you also have to check the identity of each animal with the stethoscope. I'm not sure whether each animal will always line up in the same position or not, if so, would be more useful.

Limited use, but might be worth it.

It's another snowboard.

Yup.

I did it. I used it before I got pets. When you use it, all the animals within range will line up in the pasture (if you use it in the barn they just walk up to you) and it makes it much easier to push them all back inside at the end of the day.

Hey did anybody get Ash's bell request? He's been asking me that for years but I don't want the bell to be another snowboard :/

I miss the Harvest Sprites! Though they weren't totally reliable (always did my own watering of my plants cuz they'd leave some spots dry). k fine, they were actually a pain.

All my pets are max hearts by just feeding them so they all do their work. I'd throw them in the Bluebell playpen to get them out of my way but that took a while plus they'd escape! Wish I can sell them back.

My animals were all inside in Sunshine Island.

In Grand Bazaar they ate like pigs inside so I mistakenly thought they would eat outside but they ate just as much inside. I had three dogs and two cats and everyone went outside.

If you have 16 animals in Bluebell, I think you need more than one of each pet. I had a big dog at 10 hearts, and a cat with 9 hearts for 4 years in Konohana. I got two sheep in year five and realized that, even with treats, their hearts were rising slower than the new cows and chickens that were outside everyday. That was when I got my small dog.

I want my alpacas to have 10 hearts as soon as possible for cash flow realons so I got the second small dog. It brings out the sixth animal and then I pt it in the playpen. Everyone is getting hearts quickly (pet and livestock).

I'm never home until after 4 a.m. anyway so the large group of pets is no problem for me. You'd have to ask Kana what it's like until I get home but he never complains.

I don't think that's enough if you have a full Bluebell farm with 16 animals and 10 chickens. But yeah, the animals are easy to level up - even if you don't put them outside (and their food is cheap). I've never had any animal get sick or depressed so dunno if they'll do that if kept barn-bound.

You can tell I don't like animal care, huh? =P

I didn't like pushing my animals in and out at first, like you Murasaki, I never let my animals out when I played SI at all. But in this game it doesn't take that long since they have a set pasture already that they have to stay in. I only ever get one large dog, one small dog, and one cat. I just train them up so that they'll herd all my animals everyday.

My animals would never leave the barn if it wasn't for pets. There's no way I'll waste all day pushing animals in and out - in my SI, nobody ever went outside at all. But full pets is way too many for Konohana so they're in my way. But I can't stop feeding them to make their hearts go down and stop standing on my feet while I'm trying to milk a cow. Oh well (*toss a dog over the fence*).

I appreciate my pets most on half rainy days. The animals are on the spot to bring in all the animals and I don't have to worry about where I am when the rain starts.

I've never really gotten into the pet aspect of ToTT, but its a great idea to own a couple to help herd animals.

A cat will herd 5 chickens or chicks when it has 10 hearts (I think it will herd one at 500 points, I know mine didn't show a heart when it started taking a chicken outside), a small dog will herd five sheep or alpacas at 10 hearts, and the big dog will take care of 5 cows.

The pet playpen is great, I put my second dog in the playpen after the animals are outside and its heart level is rising faster than playing with it. With three dogs, the correct dog doesn't always catch the bone and the other two are at 10 hearts already. To bad you can't play with the dog and bone in the area. It just isn't interested.