# Pets? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Drawing Board\ **Created:** [October 11, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pets/3465 "2013-10-11T20:26:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![youtoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/779978/32.png) [@youtoo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/youtoo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pets/3465/1 "2013-10-11T20:26:07Z")

not sure if this needs to wait for NPCs or not. many roguelikes have this ability. having a dog or two is not uncommon. In the Walking Dead TV series one of the characters had an interesting idea, she cut the arms off of zombies and cut out the toung and jaw, then they became docile. she put a collar on them. by having the zombies with her, the other zombies didn’t recognize her as food. ---

**Author:** ![DataTrans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@DataTrans](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DataTrans)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pets/3465/2 "2013-10-11T20:30:08Z")

You can already get friendly dogs IIRC, via the dog-whistle. Otherwise this sounds cool. Have your character take a huge morale hit if they die. ---

**Author:** ![Rivet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/rivet/32/11_2.png) [@Rivet](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Rivet)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 9:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pets/3465/3 "2013-10-11T21:20:15Z")

Dog food. The food makes them friendly, the whistle is how you command them. ---

**Author:** ![DataTrans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@DataTrans](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DataTrans)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pets/3465/4 "2013-10-11T22:51:06Z")

Ah. Well. I usually just kinda… kill the dogs and get free food from them, so I wouldn’t know. ---

**Author:** ![fartbutt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/779978/32.png) [@fartbutt](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/fartbutt)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 11:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pets/3465/5 "2013-10-11T23:56:07Z")

Cool, I didn’t know about this. Time to start a pack. I am Doglord. ---

**Author:** ![youtoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/779978/32.png) [@youtoo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/youtoo)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2013, 12:57am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pets/3465/6 "2013-10-12T00:57:50Z")

thanks. did not know about pet dogs. how useful are they? ---

**Author:** ![Miloch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/miloch/32/1339_2.png) [@Miloch](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Miloch)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pets/3465/7 "2013-10-12T02:25:45Z")

How do you get a dog whistle? I’ve used dogs quite a bit, but they just run around like crazy until they die. ---

**Author:** ![Vronkio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/vronkio/32/55_2.png) [@Vronkio](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Vronkio)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pets/3465/8 "2013-10-12T03:27:45Z")

Like it would be tought a lot of people here are interested in this. I too would like to know, how does one get a dog whistle? Maybe there’s another practical way code a way to coordinate dog behavior. I don’t have a dog whistle around and I get understood by dogs with relative ease. ---

**Author:** ![DataTrans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@DataTrans](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DataTrans)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2013, 7:35am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pets/3465/9 "2013-10-12T07:35:52Z")

You get a dog whistle by doing the “Go get my dog from X location” NPC quest, IIRC. I don’t think it spawns otherwise. ---

**Author:** ![vultures](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/vultures/32/69_2.png) [@vultures](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vultures)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2013, 2:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pets/3465/10 "2013-10-13T14:55:44Z")

You can either mod your .json files so you can create one, or just order it via Debug menu. (haven’t tried - maybe it’s not on the list?) Once NPCs are redone, I’m sure you should be able to befriend and tame even better beasts without the need for such sugarcane as this.