New to hunter questionsFollow

1. By default Shift+P will open up your pet screen. Or you could open your character screen and select the pet tab. Either way once at that screen in the top left corner there will be a green smily face. Mouse over it and it will list the food your pet eats.

2. Some pets will be more effect but not in a major way. Example: A turtle will be more effect if fighting warrior type mobs than say a Raptor because the turtle has more armor. However, the raptor would have the advantage against a caster type because he is an offensive pet to do more damage. The turtle being a defensive pet would do less damge killing the caster slower and therefore taking more spell damage. As im sure you know though in WoW you will find several types of mobs readily available for youre slaughter at any given location so running back to the stable master every time you encounter a new one to switch pets isnt very practical.

The inevitable question

Which pet should she use?

3. For general PvE use whichever pet's graphic strikes her fancy. While some pets have useful tricks such as a boar's charge or a Cat's dash In PvE you will not need to worry too much on this area for a long long time. In pvp there are some factors that give certain pets the edge over others but unless your wife is planning on doing some serious pvp I would recommend to still just use whichever pet's graphic appeals to her.

1) Open character screen, "C", and click on the pet tab, which only works if your pet is out, hover over the green smiley face in the upper left corner of the pet screen and it will tell you what your pet will eat. The descriptions are generic, so meat= any meat, mold= any mold, fish= any fish (fish are not meat) etc..

2) Pets in this game are not like pets in FFXI, in FFXI there was a big differenc in pets depending on what you are fighting because of the nature of the creature you had tamed and the creature you're fighting. In this game there is no such set of weaknesses as all damage from your pet is physical and only armor (and a few other things) determines how much damage your pet will do. Different pets have different base stats, based on pet family not on individual animals (meaning all cats, all boars, all crawlers, all bears, all wolves etc.. will have the same stats given the same set of circumstances (lvl, loyalty level, etc..))

For more information on pets go to petopia.brashendeavors.net/ and read up, theres a lot of information there, everything you would need to know to figure out which pet you would like to use.

One other thing I might add; please do not ask "What is the best pet," because you will probably only get sarcastic comments that won't help out as well as look like a noob. Also, the answer to that question when taken seriously is not easily answered, but the BEST answer for what the best pet is the pet that you like the most, aesthetically and performance wise, go with what you like, if it works for you use it. Once you get a feel for how the pets work you can ask which pet does more damage, or which is a better tank or whatnot, but until you have some experience in the pet area don't worry too much about all the details.