Befriending animals

[Guest]

I'm new to this game (played many others) and I never really took time to befriend any animals, even my own. This time I'm making friends with my own animals but what about the wild animals? Is it worth it to befriend them? And if I don't feed them regularly will their friendship-ness decrease?

thanks

[Muffy Princess Moon]

You can get gifts from the wild animals if you befriend them. You have a 25% chance of getting gifts if your friendship is higher than 700.

Mondays: Mouse (Milk, Cheese, or Cheesecake) or Sparrow (Corn, Popcorn, or Baked Corn)
Tuesdays: Duck (Killifish, Eel, or Small Blue Crab) or Rabbit (Turnip, Turnip Salad, Mixed Salad)
Wednesdays: Monkey (Banana Seed, Banana, or Chocolate Banana) or Raccoon (Soybean, Soy Milk, or Dried Tofu)
Thursdays: Fox (Tofu, Deep-Fried Tofu, or Inari Sushi) or Weasel (Egg, Egg soup, or Egg Rice Bowl)
Fridays: Bear (Sweetfish, Salmon, or Tuna) or Boar (Shimeji, Shiitake, Brown Mushroom)
Saturdays: Panda (Green Tea (Can), Sencha Tea (Can), or Oolong Tea (Can))

Loads more info here.

[Angelic]

The event is pretty rare, and the animals will go down in friendship if you don't play with them at least once a week I believe. I don't suggest feeding them, unless it's the duck (I had more than enough fish to spare) or some other super easy to feed animal.

I personally got them all up to hearts just because I liked them running up to me :D It's definitely not something all that beneficial, though. It's more of a "I fell like doing this," sort of a task.