Hi all,
Firstly I’m seeing a lot of posts demonstrating frustrations with Hunter Pets. I have encoutered some of the problems and not others. What I haven’t seen is any response from Blizzard on plans to tackle these.
My specific problem is how quickly my pet is losing Loyalty/Happiness
It is currently Loyalty 6 - Best Friend
Since turning lvl 25 I simply can not maintain it’s happiness. This has not always been a problem and therefore believe it must be to do with some new skill (Aspect of Cheetah??) since turning 25 that it affects happiness?
I’ve done a few tests (area, dungeon/town, combat/no combat etc ) all with similiar results. The fact is that on average my pet will drop from Content to Unhappy in under 4 minutes. It then takes 2 Chunks of Boar Meat to get back to Content.
I played for 4 hours yesterday and 3 today and i’ve burnt through 47 Chunks of Boar Meat. I have to take regular trips to farm more just to keep my pet Content.
I know this isn’t what Blizzard intended and I know future patches address the Pet issues however this hasn’t always been the case. It was fine from lvl 10 - 25.
Has anyone else noticed this or have any explanation?
KR
I think you need better food for it. I find that food that fits the level maintains happiness better
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You are using too low level meat for your pet. Chunks of Boar Meat has no level requirement so it means it is used for level 1 pets. Also I suggest you if you didn’t already get into cooking, if you cook the meat it will keep their happiness longer. Fishing is really best for hunters, get fishing and cooking or at least one of them.
I will give you an example. Raw Spotted Yellowtail gives 874 health while Spotted Yellowtail (cooked version) gives 1392 health means it is better food therefore gives more happiness.
Also I do realize if you leave your pet behind and run and it dismisses by itself, pets becoming upset when you recall them. You really need to take care of your pet lol.
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Thanks Leaf - that would be a sensible reason.
1 concern here though is how do you get better quality meat?
If i kill a lvl 7 boar I get the same Chunk of Boar Meat than if it was lvl 24
I can recall having to cook meat at the appropriate level to keep my pet content but I could be mis-remembering
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Kill higher level meat or fish. Then cook them to raise nutrition value and happiness of pet. Otherwise your pet will bugger off and report you to pet cruelty society. 
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The meat for the pet usually follows the zones you level in. 
All the meat has an Item lvl, Chunks of Boar meat is lvl 5 or 10. If you move on the Duskwood for instance, you’ll find meat of the wolfes with an item lvl around 20. Or maybe the bears in Ashenvale.
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Appreciate this guys - finally makes sense!
yes, I think you can improve the food quality by cooking it, so that should work.
Apart from what was mentioned so far you can also just visit butcher NPCs that sell you food. Those have a level requirement, so it’s easier to see which is the most suitable for your pet. In your case that would be level 25 meat.
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You just buy meat at the vendor, the highest level you can O.o Meat vendors you can find with google.
You don’t cook nor do you farm mobs for it. How did no one say that yet haha
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Because it’s the expensive way to do things. I haven’t spend a copper on food for myself or my pet.
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If your pet doesnt die 24/7, you need a total of max 40 for like 5 levels, what is nothing.
Maybe for the rich kids 
I wouldnt say my pet dies 24/7, but it sure does die. In dungeun wipes, and in all the fight i pick that are to hard. If i have to choose between my pet and saving my own hide, i leave it to fend for itself and run of like a scared little girl.
And then it dismisses itself when it gets stuck in stuff or i jump of something and it decides to take the long way making the distance too long.
One stack of 5 wild hog shank is 10 silver, thats a lot of gold at the end of the day, when youre leveling up and trying to make gold for the first mount.
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Level up fishing and cooking.
Get a bear as they eat anything.
Keep fishing and cooking in line with your zone level.
Catch fish, cook fish, feed pet.
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Appreciate the responses all
This is why I picked up fishing, if you feed your pet often then it’s no problem, also I think the lower your pets happiness the quicker it gets unhappier. Keep it at maximum happiness.
The lower the health restore on a food the less it will alter the state of happiness.
Best place for fishing I have found at lower levels is auberdine, you get the darkshore grouper even if you don’t have the quest. I makes your pet happier quicker than other low level fish. If your pet is vegan it’s difficult to keep happiness up without gold.
I learned cooking and fishing even before I hit level 10 and was able to tame a pet, that way I had a good supply of meat and fish ready immediately throw at my rebellious new beast in order to keep it happy.
This is one of the things I truly love about vanilla WoW - that symbiotic relationship between your class and secondary professions. Other classes beside Hunter can create similar relationships (Warrior + First Aid, Priest + Cooking etc.) but none to the extent of Hunter… and this is particularly pertinent to Night Elf Hunters.
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Starting in Teldrassil the only creatures that drop consumable meat of owls, and the drop rate is very low, making them inefficient to farm.
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Therefore learning to cook is almost essential for all new hunters.
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The only thing you can immediately cook that your pet can eat (assuming you get a cat) is Brilliant Smallfish, therefore learning to fish is equally important.
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Once cooking is at level 10 you can make Kaldorei Spider Kabobs, but this involves raising your cooking skill with the fish, and then actually farming the spiders.
Thus you get this really enjoyable relationship between three aspects of the game. Alt characters sugar-daddied by a rich main can just buy the meat, but where’s the fun in that?
They ruined it in WotLK by introducing the new Spice Bread recipe, which allowed everyone to raise cooking straight to 50, right from the word go - but Vanilla was a far more sophisticated mistress.
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Not had this problem at all with my pet.