Feeding a cowplant only satisfies hunger if the "cake" is visible.

@xochiquetzl_xkvn , Yes, it used to not stick out the cake right after, at least not always , as if your trying to feed it was a trigger for the cake.🤨  But I guess you can just feed it again to top off its hunger need.😉  Or does that not work either?🤔

Well, that's what I do, yes.  I just kind of feel that if I feed the cowplant it shouldn't become desperately hungry immediately. 

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but my interpretation was always:

1. No cake, offer food, cowplant shakes head:  Not hungry.

2. No cake, offer food, cowplant eats:  Hungry.

3. Cake visible:  DESPERATELY HUNGRY.

If you engaged in action 2 regularly enough, you might never see the cake.  Now, if you engage in action 2, the cake appears less than an hour later.  In other words, only food offered when the cowplant is DESPERATELY HUNGRY has any hunger-satisfying effect. 

Maybe I should change the subject line to be clearer. 

@xochiquetzl_xkvn , no I agree that that is how it should be, logically! 🙂   I have always found that feeding it when the cake was not visible didn't do much ever ☹️., but if the cake now always shows up right after you feed it , then yes, something has changed I think. 🤔  Right after Strangerville released i remember my infected Sim who would be awake all night would tend the family CowPlant and that even if I fed it a lot, it would still eventually bring the cake out (and I assumed that meant it was extra hungry).  But it usually wouldn't put the cake out as quickly as you are seeing in your game now. Maybe occasionally, depending on the timing, but not that often! 

@PugLove888 and @xochiquetzl_xkvn In my experience the cow plant has always been a very erratic creature. So the same things happened when my Sims fed the beast. At one time it would be desperately hungry after half an hour or an hour, then at other times it would be nicely fed for half a day. The only time I know somethings changed was after the patchupdate just before EA launched 'Eco Lifestyle'. It occurred to me that when I moved a dead cow plant in building mode, the beast suddenly lived up for a brief moment 😏! This happend with and without mods. It was only after the update just before Nifty Knitting that this glitch was repaired.

All my households, at one time or another grew cow plants and i have always seen this erratic behavior. It could well mean that your Cow plant is hungry for something better that 'normal food'. I would suggest to you @xochiquetzl_xkvn to give it a more substantial meal.  

I really love my cow plants 🤣

Have fun playing 😏

@Trismagistos and @xochiquetzl_xkvn , that is similar to what my game has always had with CowPlants.  Most of the time it wouldn't be that soon after , but once in a while it was.  😉

LOL!  I do.  :D

I know it sounds like a really minor annoyance, but in context...

<probably more than you want to know>My Sim is a level 10 Gardener in the PhD of Pollen Gardener job.  He's required to have that cowplant for his job, because his work from home assignments sometimes include "feed a cowplant" and "be eaten by a cowplant."  He's also disgustingly rich (without cheating! gardening is the bomb) so he could certainly just take the hit and not get paid that day, but it's super-frustrating to get a work assignment you can't do.  (I know this because I have a mermaid conservationist in another save that sometimes gets the work assignment "snorkel.")  I could just send him into the office (what I've been doing with the mermaid), but he and his wife have a toddler and she also has a job (level 10 e-Sport Gamer).  I could just hire a nanny--they could certainly afford it--but if he can work from home, why?  So the cowplant is actually super important in that context.</probably more  than you want to know>

Because he gets the work-from-home assignment "get eaten by a cowplant," he does feed it more substantial things from time to time. 😉  It's also eaten party guests, LOL. 

I know they've always been erratic.  It just seems like they get hungrier faster, and feeding them before the tongue sticks out seems ineffective.  I did some testing before I posted--not extensive, but I wanted to see if it was repeatable--before I posted, honest!

LOL, I've seen the dead cowplant come back to live in build mode, too. 

It also reverts to a bud (horns sticking out of the ground) that somehow grunts, rings its bell, and eats people from time to time, but reset object fixes that.  LOL.  That one wasn't really worth mentioning in context.  😉