That’s a picture of me and Bob, my pet raptor.

I didn’t want a pet raptor. I reached level ten this evening and I took my taming quests and I was excited because I knew I wanted a tiger and I knew where tigers were. So I got a tiger. I wanted to call him ‘Nipple’, but that’s an invalid name according to the rules, so I called him ‘Invalid’. And I was pleased. I trained him to growl and I fed him some meat and then, just as I was about to log off for the night, he ran away.

No idea why, no warning. He’s just gone.

I didn’t want to be petless, so I ran out of the inn I was in, grabbed the nearest raptor and brought him home. Before I log back in I’ll have to read up on pets. The in-game help is normally very, well, helpful, but there doesn’t seem to be much explaining of this pet stuff.

I’m definitely doing to have to do some research here.