Hunter Pets
The hunter's pet is his constant companion as he travels through Azeroth. The pet acts as a tank when the hunter fights, allowing the hunter to maintain the range hunters require to do their best in battle. Basic info on taming and maintaining hunter pets can be found in the pet basics section of the Hunter page.
Taming
A hunter must use their 
[Tame Beast] skill on a valid beast family monster exactly their level or lower in order to own it. Upon starting the taming process, the hunter's armor is decreased by 100% and they cannot perform any other actions, or else the taming fails. Most hunters use 
[Concussive Shot] paired with a 
[Freezing Trap] and 
[Aspect of the Monkey] so that they get hit as little as possible when attempting to tame. The taming process takes 20 seconds.
A good way to tame a pet is to ask a mage for help. It's possible to tame a sheeped pet.
Feeding
There are six different types of food that pets will eat. They consist of meat, bread, fish, fruit, fungus, and cheese. Some pets, like wolves, will only eat meat, but bears and boars can eat any of the six food types. It is easiest to feed pets that eat meat, bread and fish. Mobs often drop meats, fishes can be fished, and bread can be conjured up by mages as pet food.
Feeding pets is very important. The happier a pet is, the more damage it deals. The happier it stays, the more loyalty ranks it gains, and thus, it gains the ability to learn more skills. If you neglect to feed a pet for too long, the pet may run away!
See Pet Feeding for more info.
Types
There are 17 families of pets for hunters to tame. Each family has its own skills, diet, and statistics.
- Bat
- Bear
- Boar
- Carrion Bird (aka Vulture)
- Cat (lions and sabers included)
- Crab
- Crocolisk
- Gorilla
- Hyena
- Owl
- Raptor
- Scorpid
- Spider (both tarantula and spider types)
- Tallstrider (aka Strider)
- Turtle
- Wind Serpent
- Wolf (Worgs included)
Unique Pets
- Death Flayer (Scorpid)
- Ursius (Bear)
- Humar the Pridelord (Cat)
- The Rake (Cat)
- Echeyakee (Cat)
- King Bangalash (Cat)
- Mazzranache (Tallstrider)
- Ravage (Hyena)
- Spiteflayer (Carrion Bird)
- Deviate Dreadfang (Wind Serpent)
- Deadmire (Crocolisk)
Un-Tameable Beasts
- Basilisk
- Chimera
- Core Hound
- Devilsaur
- Diemetradon
- Elk
- Frenzy
- Giraffe
- Gryphon
- Hydra
- Kodo
- Pterrordax
- Shark
- Ravasaur
- Threshadon
- Thunder Lizard
- Worm
- Wyvern
- Zhevra
- Beast Bosses
ETC.
See Also
- Petopia — A picture guide to hunter companions
- Hunter Pet Abilities from the Good Intentions guild.