Feed Pet

Feed Pet
Feed Pet Level 5 hunter ability 10 yd range 10 sec cooldown Instant Feeds your pet the selected item, instantly restoring 50% of its total health. Not usable in combat. You may use the Beast Lore ability to identify what types of foods your pet will eat.
Properties
Class	Hunter
School	Physical
Cooldown	10 seconds
Other information
Level learned	5

Feed Pet is a level 5 hunter ability. It allows the hunter to quickly heal their pet while out of combat.

Usage

This ability can be used by pressing the Feed Pet icon, then clicking on a food item; or by dragging a food item from your backpack and dropping it onto either your pet's portrait or your pet itself.

Feed Pet can also be cast without having to click the food by using the following macro:

#showtooltip
/cast Feed Pet
/use Item Name

Notes

• Food types that don't frequently drop from mobs can be purchased from vendors instead. Vendors typically only sell one type of food, specified by the title under their name, e.g. <Bread Vendor>.
• Healing from Feed Pet is the same regardless of the food's level.
• Many pets can eat uncooked food that the hunter can't.
• Pets that eat bread can eat food conjured by mages.

Happiness

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Before patch 4.1, feeding your pet did not heal it. Instead, feeding increased your pet's happiness and kept it in a good mood. The happier a pet was, the more damage it dealt:

• Happy: 125% damage
• Content: 100% damage
• Unhappy: 75% damage

However when the glyph system was added, the  [Glyph of Mending], which at the time increased happiness level, made feeding a pet not as important. In Cataclysm the happiness levels were removed, and the pet now stays in happy mood. Feeding now just heals the pet rather than making it happier.

Patch changes

• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 5 (was 13).
  
• Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 13 (was 11).
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now learned at level 11 (was 10).
  
• Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): The Feed Pet ability now instantly heals 50% of the pet's health instead of increasing Happiness. Cannot be used in combat. Requires diet-appropriate food.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now learned from trainers instead of the quest Taming the Beast.
  
• Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): Hunters will now visibly throw its pet a given food item when feeding. This does not apply to pure buff items such as Sporeling Snacks or  [Kibler's Bits]. Only food items.
  
• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Now has a 10-second cooldown.
  
• Patch 1.12.0 (2006-08-22): Recasting Feed Pet while using Feed Pet will reset the duration of the cast.
  

See also

• Hunter pets
• Food

Other versions

• Classic

  Feed Pet
  Feed Pet Level 10 hunter ability 10 yd range Instant Feed your pet the selected item. Feeding your pet increases happiness. Using food close to the pet's level will have a better result.
  Properties
  Class	Hunter
  School	Physical
  Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
  Other information
  Level learned	10

• Wrath Classic

  Feed Pet
  Feed Pet Level 10 hunter ability 10 yd range 10 sec cooldown Instant Feed your pet the selected item. Feeding your pet increases happiness. Using food close to the pet's level will have a better result.
  Properties
  Class	Hunter
  School	Physical
  Cooldown	10 seconds
  Other information
  Level learned	10

• Cataclysm Classic

  Feed Pet
  Feed Pet Level 10 hunter ability 10 yd range 10 sec cooldown Instant Feed your pet the selected item, instantly restoring 50% of its total health. Cannot be used while in combat.
  Properties
  Class	Hunter
  School	Physical
  Cooldown	10 seconds
  Other information
  Level learned	10

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