[Lara]

Now that Lyrrin and I are working on bringing in the grimmwold taming system and introducing taming as a better high end combat system with advanced mobs with special abilities, I'd like to make a segregation between "combat creatures" and "pets".

To that end, we are going to move all (or most) the low end animals (chicken, sheep, cat, dog, etc) as well as the basic mounts (horse, llama, ostard, swamp dragon) to Pets.  Pets will be a function of herding/butchering and will have the general ideas implemented - EVENTUALLY.

• Wild animals can be found and "tamed" in the wild with herding (aka butchering) and be re-sold as a pet.  The pet can be turned into a little icon of itself for sale and once bought will come "out of its cage" and bond with the player.  The purchasing player will not need taming or herding to keep their pet, and the pet will avoid combat so it can keep you company but not get murdered while hunting.  Pets can also be stabled.
  
• Pet training.  Shepards will be able to train pets.  Trained pets may get higher hit points, special bonuses they pass on to their owners, advanced linquistics and possible tricks.
  
• Pet breeding: This will need a lot more planning, but conceptually some type of pet breeding will result in "specialty breeds", "upgraded graphics", "interesting hues", or "upgraded stats/skills".
  
• Feeding pets will require specialty foods produced by cooking, to give cooking something else to sell.