livestock pause button

[Potjeh]

Where I go to forage there's an abandoned settlement with four cows and two sheep, which are separated from their respective males. There is only a small patch of grass, the rest is forest. The grass is half eaten, but it doesn't seem to be progressing. It's been this way for almost a month, and none of the animals starved yet. So yeah, I'd say you already have this feature.

[DatOneGuy]

It seems like an 'okay' idea, and I'm sure it would be good, if you suddenly decide to leave, for example I suddenly decided to go play Terraria for 3-4 days, came back and half my cows (all the good ones) were dead. This would save me the grief of spending a day(3 hours tops) to prepare before hand, that's all really.

I do see three really good applications:
1)Power/service outages, happens, hurts, no way to get to a computer, whatever the cause may be, CAN be extended enough for your cows to die, not always a way to plan for it.
2)Sick, if you get sick you don't give a fuck about HnH, if you're a hermit this means all your shit dies and if it's not properly claimed you can probably come back to seeing everything gone. - This is the strongest reason for it I see.
3)Unplanned vacations/sick family member/sudden heavy school load.

I'm not so sure about the eating grass = no milk thing, only because sometimes cows can be fucking stupid.