Cow Plants - Are they worth it?

I'm currently playing a family with a full garden, including the cowplant. It's not too much bother. When he sticks the cake out he's hungry, but you have some time to feed him. As long as you click feed your sim will feed it some meat thing, it's usually in the morning and evening. I time it to when my sim is tending or harvesting her garden and feed it then.

Also, It seems they tweaked something and sims don't die as easily when drained from the cowplant, now that my family has gotten bigger, and ive been paying to much attention to the kids. My darn sim went to go eat the cake several times now and other then a discomfort moodlet she's been fine, luckily.

Also it is kind of fun to have one, it'll dance to music and the kids will play with it for fun. You can even play the guitar for it like in my avi and it dances along, it's pretty cute in that way.