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During your travels through Crimson Desert’s Pywel region, you’ll find that stray cats and dogs are some of the most helpful allies. While they won’t fight enemies or soak up damage like weapons or armor, they save you plenty of time after battles. However, catching and keeping one requires patience and the right snacks to build trust quickly.
Here’s everything you need to know about finding, taming, and making the most of these animal companions in Crimson Desert.
How to Tame Cats and Dogs
You can earn cats or dogs as pets by gradually building their trust through feeding and petting. Each animal has a trust meter starting at zero and needs to reach 100 to become your pet. Trust increases through daily limits on petting and feeding, which reset at midnight in the game. Patience is key.
Getting Started:
The first animals you’ll encounter are stray cats and dogs wandering Hernand, the city you arrive in early. This makes it easy to begin bonding before heading further into Pywel.
Petting
Petting increases trust by +5 points per interaction, with a daily cap of +25 trust. You can pet each animal up to five times a day.
- For dogs: Walk up and hold the interaction button when prompted.
- For cats: You need to pick them up first by holding the button, then press again to pet once they’re in your arms.
Note that with a cap of +25 trust from petting per day, you’ll also need to feed your pets for faster taming.
Feeding
Dropping food near an animal is the quickest way to earn trust and unlock a new pet.
- To feed: Open your inventory and discard a food item in front of the animal; it will come over and eat.
- Each pet can only be fed three times per day, so choose your food carefully.
Different foods provide varying trust boosts. Regular food grants +10 trust, but each animal has a favorite food that can give +35 trust per feeding—enough to tame a dog in a single day if you feed it three times and pet it five times.
Best Locations and Favorite Foods
Most cats and dogs can be found throughout Pywel, though each breed has preferred regions and foods. For example:
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Cats: Found in Hernand (with squid as a favorite food) and desert regions (with eggs).
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Dogs: Found near Hernand (with sweet potatoes) and Demeniss villages (with lean bird meat).
Feeding pets at around 10 p.m. in game maximizes trust gain since counters reset at midnight, allowing you to speed up taming without wasting in-game days.
Claiming Your Pet
When trust hits 100, a prompt appears allowing you to claim the animal by holding the select button and choosing “Claim.” Your new pet is now part of your companions.
You can keep up to 30 pets in total, but only one can be active and follow you at a time. Excess pets are stored at Greymane Camp, and you can unregister them via a menu—just remember, unregistering is permanent.
A helpful tutorial for claiming stray dogs is available through the “The Greymanes’ New Fangs” quest from Chapter 4 onward, guiding you through the process with your companion Naira.
What Pets Can Do for You
While animals won’t attack enemies or draw aggression, they excel at looting. An active pet will automatically run across the battlefield and gather items from defeated foes, saving you time.
However, pets have no loot filter—they’ll pick up everything they can reach, including junk, so you’ll need to monitor your inventory regularly.
Pets aren’t combat fighters—they can take damage if enemies attack them, and if injured, they won’t be able to loot properly. To heal them, clear the area and use the Healing Force Palm skill.
Dressing Up Your Pet
Pets can be outfitted with cosmetic gear like hats, outfits, and armor, mainly for fun and aesthetics. These items are available at Pororin shops—one inside Pororin Forest Village (after completing the “The Unreachable Village” quest) and another in southeastern Demeniss.
The gear doesn’t provide gameplay advantages; it’s purely for visual customization in photo mode or when collecting gear from defeated enemies.
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