A squirrel and my huskie got in a fight and now he has a bite and bleeding. How do I heal him like colonists?
Thanks.
1. The husky will go to an animal sleeping spot, or animal bed if available. Then you can treat him.
2. Check the husky's "Health" page, and allow the use of medicine.
Animal beds are preferable. Animal box is somewhere between a sleeping spot and an animal bed, and only for small animals. If you check their information page, you'll see they have benefits like better resting and immunity gain speed. If your husky is already at a sleeping spot, you can deconstruct it beneath him and he'll go to the animal bed.
What about healing shattered limbs? Will the pet beds auto heal incapacitating injuries over time? (Given we can't perform surgery to install prosthetic or cybernetics on them I'm assuming yes?)
Quote from: Lady Wolf on September 01, 2015, 01:31:50 AM
What about healing shattered limbs? Will the pet beds auto heal incapacitating injuries over time? (Given we can't perform surgery to install prosthetic or cybernetics on them I'm assuming yes?)
No, actually. Terminal injuries, like shattered bones and missing limbs, are permanent in animals given the lack of an operations tab for them :/
Shattered bones are permanent in both people and animals, and since there are no bionic limbs for animals, it's kind of like getting brain damaged colonists.
In my current game, my hunter went after some cobras and a Boomalope. The Boomalope went boom, of course, so I drafted a colonist to carefully manage stamping out the fire ... but the cobras decided to attack, and my husky tried to fend them off but got badly burned in the fire. The husky would /not/ go to his sleeping box, but started sleeping outside instead for some reason ... so I can't seem to heal him. :/ Now he's getting an infection, but still won't go to his sleeping box, so I can't heal him. :/ Any idea what's up, why he won't sleep in his healing box? And ... I wish to heck /especially/ when Obedience has been trained, you could command an animal to rest so they could be tended to.
Quote from: Chibiabos on September 04, 2015, 03:29:08 PM
The husky would /not/ go to his sleeping box, but started sleeping outside instead for some reason ...
By "sleeping box" I'm assuming you mean the actual furniture item "sleeping box?" If so that's your problem, Once a dog reaches a certain maturity level they are too big to sleep in the "box" any longer so you need to craft them a "Animal bed" (made from 75 boar skin or some other animal hide) this is big enough for full grown dogs to sleep in, and once crafted your dog should start sleeping in that instead.
If that's not the issue, check to see what allowed area your husky is set to, if the box is in an area your dog isn't allowed in they won't sleep inside it and will sleep on the ground instead.
To be clear, there are three types of animal sleeping structures. Animal sleeping boxes (35 wood/stone/etc. type materials) can only be used by small animals. Yorkshire terriers, chickens, boomrats, etc., and most if not all baby/juvenile animals too. Animal beds (45 cloth/leather/etc.) can be used by any animal, and have higher rest effectiveness than beds. Animal sleeping spots, like normal human sleeping spots, are more like a designated location than a real building, and they aren't any different from sleeping on the ground, which is what animals will do anyway without them... except wounded animals can rest in them and get healed by doctors.
If you want to build a comfortable bed for your tame animal, to let it rest for less time and haul more stuff for you or just because you like it, build a bed.
If you want to build a somewhat comfortable, but cheaper, bed for your small animal, because you don't want to waste a bunch of cloth on a chicken coop or you just landed with a Yorkie and don't even have any cloth yet, build a box.
If you want some animals to be able to be treated but not to build stuff for them, put a few sleeping spots in their allowed area. Not necessarily one for each animal (unless you want them all sleeping in specific places each night), just enough for wounded animals to have a place to get healed, with a few animals sleeping there each night as a side effect.