Small Pets can die of starvation, but Cats and Dogs can only die of old age?

"happygurl;c-16377952" wrote:
Maybe it's because you can't control them (or see their needs) so it'd be a lot harder to keep them from starving?

Maybe it's just me, but I find it pretty easy to notice that my pet's miniature background is red when they feel uncomfortable. Then you can ask "what's wrong?" and it tells you exactly what's happening. I don't know, I may be just particulary responsive to that. Also, they could turn off needs decay for the strays (there's even mod for that, so I don't see why the devs couldn't do that).