Predator bait

[Shurp]

So I just discovered something interesting.  Predators seem to preferentially target downed animals.  I discovered this when several muffalo wandered through my base and I shot them up; usually once they drop I just leave them there to bleed out because my colonists have better things to do than shoot at stuff that's not moving.  Since then two wargs and a timber wolf have shown up to chew on them, and I shot them up too.

This suggests a strategy for dealing with predators.  Put an animal sleeping spot in an accessible part of your base.  Down a big herbivore and carry him there to be tended and kept alive.  (Cutting off his legs will keep him from wandering off).  Wait for predators to show up and kill them as they come.

Note that you'll have to remove the sleeping spot when he's patched up if you don't want your animal tenders wasting food on him.

[SpaceDorf]

Good Idea

I went the other way in my last base and had all my animals range freely around the map and provided no food at all for my predators. I had some Timberwolves, a cougar, a bear later and some of jecrells giant spiders.
All I had to do was to collect animal corpses. And if something big and bad entered the map I set out to tame it.