Our pets are more to us than weapons to a warrior or a spellbook to a mage. They respond and react to their owners and to their environment and need to be cared for. You will not be a proficient Tamer before you learn to understand how your pets behave in different situations. Not all the aspects of pet handling are as straightforward as equipping a weapon or casting a spell, so hopefully the different topics will help you to understand why pets act the way they do, how to care for them, and how to work with them.

Whether your first very own pet is a horse you bought from a stablemaster, a dog or cat you tamed in your home town or one of the more powerful creatures you were given by a friend or bought at the local bank, they all follow the same ownership rules, even if their control requirements may vary.

Any pet with a taming requirement of 29.1 and below (plus ridgebacks and swamp dragons) does not have any control requirements. Any character can own and successfully command them, regardless of their skill in taming and lore. For creatures of a higher taming requirement, a minimum of 20% control is required to have one transferred to you. In order to determine the needed skill level, use the Control Calculator link at the top of this page.

Your pets need to be fed in order to stay happy and loyal to you, they need to be stabled when you can't take care of them, and they will react to your commands, depending on how well you can control them.

Only a pet's owner and players friended to it are able to give commands. You can friend another player to it by way of the "friend" command or "friend" option on the context menu. A friend of your pet will not be able to issue commands other than movement based ones (follow, come) or stable it, but can access your pack animal's pack and will be able to confirm the resurrection of a pet in case you are not present.

Owning a pet also means you are responsible for it's actions. You are eligible for a murder count if you tell your animal to attack an innocent (Felucca facet only). If you release a tamed pet, you are still responsible for its actions for a short time and eligible for murder counts if it attacks an innocent.

Releasing aggressive creatures in populated areas of Trammel is also an offense that might get you a warning from a Gamemaster or will get you banned from the game in the worst case.