Checklist for BB troubles, eating....

We often see our pets stop eating.  This happens a lot after SL has its weekly updates.  And whenever something goes on the grid to disrupt script performance, especially if you're sharing a sim with a very busy club or roleplay group.

If your Biobreeds dog or pony stops eating, i.e. their hunger stat keeps increasing instead of decreasing, try this:

1)  Check to see that both the food and your animal are set to the same group as the land.  We've had LL initiated rollbacks actually change group settings on breedables before.  And sometimes something will interfere if you used your viewer's "always rez in land group" setting.  BB items will send a warning in chat if they're not rezed right, but it's easy to miss those things if you're busy too.  DO NOT deed your animal or food to the land group.

2)  Is the food and the animal on the latest update?

3)  Reset both food and animal.  Pick up and rez them back out.  Wear your land tag when you do this, just in case your viewer's auto setting isn't working.  Just remember to re-enable your food after rezzing it back out.  Alternately, you can go into your animal's menu and reset them rather than rez them, but if something got stuck, it's good to rerez them.  I used to do this to all my mainland animals once a week when the SL updates were so heavy for mesh upgrades because it did interfere so much.  Hasn't been necessary in a long time, but taught me that sometimes rerezing is better.  Just watch the Second Life Status Blog and wait until after they're finished with any ongoing maintenance at the time.  A sneaky rollback coming through right after you leave your pet can cause issues.

4)  If hunger still increases, take it to the Biobreeds group chat.  CSRs hang out in there to help people with issues like this.  They'll guide you through the above steps again, maybe visit, if necessary, and let you know if there's something easy to fix it or if you need a tech's help.

NOTE:  Your animal will not eat while sleeping.  Make sure your animal is awake before worrying about hunger increasing.  Mine tend to go 10-15% hungry during their sleep cycle.

Also, on my animals, I noticed that they update every 20 minutes or thereabout.  Once the stats update, I wait another 20 minutes before resetting or rerezing to see if they update properly.

If they do go hungry, don't worry.  They don't die.  They will eat themselves well again once you get them reset properly.