Taming and Raising Animals

While all Animals in Garden Paws can be displayed in habitats or as pets, some must be Raised or Tamed first.

Taming is needed for wild animals, raising for farm animals like alpacas or ducks.

Requirements

Not all animals are immediately available to find, purchase, or tame at the start of the game, and may require specific circumstances to unlock:

• Habitats: Many animals cannot be tamed until the player has unlocked and built the required habitat.
• NPCs: Access to some animals (Alpacas and Pigs for instance) requires certain characters to move to the town (such as Poppy and their Animal Shop).
• Quests: Some animals (such as Ducks or the Dog) are not accessible until completion of certain quest lines that unlock new areas of the Main Island.
• Access to Islands: Some animals (such as Hippos and Ferrets) are found on Outer Islands that the player will not initially be able to reach without a Glider or another way to get across the water.
• Preferred Food: The player might not initially have access to the feed item an animal prefers, or the tool needed to acquire it. Animal feed can be purchased from certain NPCs once they are unlocked.

Both adult and baby animals can be found in Animal Mystery Boxes bought at the Summer Festival for 150 Summer Tickets, found in Decorative Eggs during the Spring Festival, or received as quest rewards.

How To

Taming

Once a wild animal is located, the player can begin the taming process by feeding it the required food for a certain number of consecutive days:

Animal	Food Required	Days to Tame
Cat	Fish	5
Dog	Pet it!	5
Bunny	Carrot	7
Ferret	Wool	7
Goat, Sheep	Hay	10
Fox, Small Black Penguin	Small Fish	10
Deer	Tall Grass	10
Dung Beetle	Beetle Feed	10
Skunk	Chicken Egg	10
Penguin	Small Fish	14
Bear	Honey	15
Hippo	Hay	15
Horse	Hay	30
Legendary Mounts	Legendary Feed	1 (Instant)

For more information about each animal, see Animals.
For locations of wild animal spawns, see Detailed Map.

Progress can be seen in the blue bar that appears over the animal when it is approached. The bar will appear empty if the animal has not been fed at least once recently.  

Failure to feed an animal for a day will result in the bar decreasing by one day per day missed.

When the progress bar is full, the animal will start following the player and can be lead to its respective habitat.

• Convenience Tip: It is recommended to carry the animal's habitat in your inventory and place it next to the animal before feeding it the final time. Once the animal has been tamed and removed from the habitat, pick the habitat back up with a Hammer.

When the animal makes contact with its habitat, a pop-up will appear notifying the player that the animal has been tamed and allow the player to name the animal if they wish.

Naming the animal (even if the name is blank) completes the taming process.

Raising

Baby animals can be purchased from Mr. Jones, Poppy, Mr. Mooney's assistant Jacob, or may be obtained by other means, such as winning it at a Festival or finding one in a Blue Mystery Box.

After being placed in a habitat, the player must feed the baby animal every day consecutively for a certain number of days for the animal to mature:

Animal	Food Required	Days to Raise
Baby Alpaca, Calf, Foal	Hay	14
Baby Goat, Lamb	Hay	10
Chick, Duckling, Mallard Duckling	Bird Feed	7
Piglet	Potato	10

The animal's maturity status can be viewed when opening the habitat.

Failure to feed the animal consecutively will reset the animal's maturity by one day.

• A Feeding Trough can be used to auto-feed baby animals, but the proper amount of the feed must be placed in the trough ahead of time.

Once the animal reaches its adult form, it will always show as "Full" and no longer needs to be fed. (The player may still do so if they wish, but it is not required and does not have any effect on items the animal may produce.)

Uses

Resources

An animal placed in a habitat will drop 1 item every day. Items vary by animal type, such as feathers, eggs, wool, fur, or even geodes. These can be sold, used to complete quests, or as a material in crafting recipes.

Cows and Goats can be interacted with using a Wooden Bucket to obtain Cow Milk or Goat Milk. 

All animals drop poop, which can be used to craft Basic Fertilizer or requested by NPCs in some quests. There is a rare chance for animals to drop Golden Poop. Some animals do not drop anything other than poop.

Animals themselves can also be sold in the player's shop.

Pets

The player can have an animal follow them by placing them in the pet slot (shown with the pawprint symbol) in their inventory. Pets do not provide any perks to the player, will not drop resources, and cannot be interacted with unless the animal is mountable.

Animal Display

Displaying Animals

Animals can be placed inside an Animal Display. They will appear in the world and move around and behave as they normally would, but they will not drop resources.

Riding

Many animals are mountable and can be ridden by the player. Depending on the animal, movement speed and jump height may be increased or decreased. Riding is only available with adult animals.

Mountable animals can be ridden when equipped in the pet slot. A "Ride" option will appear with the primary action button (E) when the player is near the animal. Pressing the secondary action button (F) will allow the player to get back off.

For more information, see Mounts.

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