Chatting to a pet that is carrying an item picked up off the floor will command them to drop the item. The odds of them obeying depend on their tameness and apport.
Pet cats lose 2 tameness when the player wakes them up. However, opening a tin wakes all nearby felines, and this will not cause cats to lose tameness when woken.
Pets’ closeness to the player should correlate with higher tameness, so that if you’d prefer it stay a little farther away you can deliberately decrease its tameness or vice versa.
Artifact ring of warning that, in addition to providing warning, has some of the properties from UnNetHack’s Clarent. When worn, it shows all pets on the level, wherever they are, and can be invoked to increase tameness of all pets in line of sight.
When the player does something that decreases the tameness of a pet, the amount of decrease should be doubled if the pet is intelligent and “weakly” cross-aligned (either the pet or the player is neutral and the other isn’t), and tripled if the pet is intelligent and “strongly” cross-aligned (the pet or player is lawful; the other is chaotic).
Unicorns always count as “intelligent” for these purposes (they’re not intelligent, but fundamentally understand alignment).
A pet will only eat a corpse that will make it polymorph if its tameness is very low. Otherwise it will avoid it.
Soldiers and watchmen can be tamed by throwing gold at them. In order to make them tame, you must give them over a certain initial amount X, which will give 1 point of tameness, and giving them additional gold will increase tameness by 1 for every Y gold. Tameness steadily declines over time, removing Y gold from their inventory each time it drops by a point. Should tameness drop to zero, they become hostile. Chatting with them while tame will give you a clue about how tame they are: they will either talk about how they’re going to spend all their money, or wonder when the next payment is coming, or threaten you for more gold, depending on the amount of tameness. Normal magical taming methods do not work on them (as currently happens).
Pets eat corpses incrementally, not all at once, and you can interrupt their eating by moving them off the corpse (e.g. swapping places). The corpse becomes progressively partly eaten as they eat it. Interrupting their eating deducts tameness points from them equal to how many they would have gained if they had been allowed to finish eating normally.
Muzzles that can be put on pets so they stop eating food off the floor. Uncursed ones block their eating 90% of the time; blessed 100%; and cursed ones weld to the pet’s face and prevent it from eating anything until it starves or the curse is removed. May also decrease tameness when put on the pet.
