From: dylanw@demon.net (Dylan O'Donnell)
Subject: Re: What do Mumakil eat?
Date: 07 Sep 1999 11:38:02 +0100


There are, to a pet, three types of food: food they'll eat happily,
food they'll eat if hungry and food they can't handle. (Well, not
quite true; there's a difference in the reaction to being around or
being given DOGFOOD and CADAVERs. But for the purposes of what they
_can_ eat, they're the same.)


For a carnivore:
Good food:    meaty corpses, tripe, non-cockatrice eggs
If hungry:    non-meaty non-fungal corpses (jellies etc), "people food"
Can't handle: apple, orange, pear, melon, banana, carrot, wolfsbane,
              garlic, <fruit>


For a herbivore:

Good food:    apple, carrot (banana if ape), fungus
If hungry:    garlic, banana, orange, pear, melon, wolfsbane, <fruit>
Can't handle: non-fungal corpses, tripe, eggs, "people food"


For an omnivore:

Good food:    tripe, eggs, meaty or fungal corpses, apples, carrots
If hungry:    everything else


"people food" being all rations, royal jelly, cream pies, fortune
cookies, candy bars, pancakes and lembas wafers.

There's other stuff about which metals metallivorous monsters prefer
and other odd cases, but that should cover most of it.