Picking up small animals

[Sparkle Kitti]

A nice feature to add to the game would be the ability to pick up chickens, rabbits, and maybe raccoons and foxes. You could make it so that you take a small amount of ongoing damage to reflect the wild animal trying to escape.

[SoloBlood]

I was unaware of this page.  I had the same idea and posted it in discord. I'll copy and paste here to keep this alive.

Limitations:
Pick up an adult animal but you must have a free backpack slot.
Can't pick up two or more adults.
The lower the generation the less time you have till they get away.  Example Generation 0 boars attack you and sow wiggle out of your hands almost instantly.  A generation 1 sow will be .5 second longer and so on. Same for other animals.
Piglets/babies are at your mercy, but Gen 0-2 attack you if you pick one up in a 8 block radius.