Slight correction Jogge. If you feed a pet and stable it (or just keep it alive) for seven days and feed it again. It will bond with you. That means when it dies you can get it rezzed. Some pets are harder to control then others. A horse everyone has 100% chance of controlling it. While a dragon may not listen to tamer at all if the tamers' taming/lore skill are not high enough .

Guessing you want this character for PvM. Do you prefer any other skill to go with your taming? If it's magery you will want eval and meditation. As toad pointed out. Lore is used to calculate control chance and also how much you heal with a bandaid.

Vepl