How to Get a Minecraft Pet

Last Updated: July 26, 2022

Pets in Minecraft offer practical purposes as well as aesthetic. Ocelots, for example, will cause creepers to walk away from you, and wolves will attack anything that you attack or anything that hurts you. Go to step one to find out how to get a pet.

Method 1

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Cats

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Fish for a lot of fish. Depending on your success rates and skill in catching ocelots, you will need anywhere from 4-16 raw fish. Make sure you use either raw cod or salmon.
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Find an ocelot or cat. They are found in most jungles, however, these can be located far away from your home, so build some temporary shelters along the way. Stray cats can be found in villages.
- A black cat can spawn near witch's huts.
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Approach the ocelot slowly. Even if you're at the player's normal speed, it will run away from you. Approach it while holding the fish and slowly walking up to it. If it creeps toward you, don't move. If you don't move, you can right-click it and after an unknown amount of fish, it will soon switch breeds.
- Use stalk. It will limit your speed, but they can still run away.
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Breed the cats! After all that hard work, you don't want your investment going down the drain due to death!
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Enjoy your pet cat! Cats repel creepers and phantoms, making them super useful as sentries. They take no fall damage, and will sit on your chests, bed, and furnaces. There are 11 different cat breeds, so if you can, try to get each one.

Method 2

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Dogs

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Kill some skeletons. To tame wolves, you are going to need bones. The largest amount of bones you will need per wolf is four, but bring some extras if you make a mistake.
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Find the wolves. They are occasionally found in oak and dark oak forests, but they can be surprisingly rare in your world, so keep hopping around until you find a forest with wolves in it.
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Feed the bones to the wolf. Simply hold right click whilst holding a bone, and hearts will appear. Do this until the wolf gets a red collar and you can't feed it any more bones. Be careful not to right-click and hit the wolf, however, for if you do, every wolf within a 64 block radius will become aggressive to you.
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Heal and breed your wolf! Feeding any meat to the wolf will heal it, and feeding it meat while another tamed wolf who was also fed is in the region will cause them to breed. If you need to heal your wolf, simply feed it meat without another wolf nearby
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Enjoy your pet dog! They will attack mobs that attack you or that you attack, so be careful not to let them get blown up by creepers.

Method 3

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Foxes

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Find sweet berries. Sweet berries will spawn in the taiga biomes. You will need at least two.
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Find two foxes. Foxes can be found in taiga, giant tree taiga, and snowy taiga biomes. Foxes can be normal, orange foxes, or rarer, snowy foxes. You can breed both types together, and they will give you a 50/50 chance of which type the baby fox becomes.
- Fence them in or put them on leads so they can't escape.
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Keeping the foxes close enough for them to breed, feed them one sweet berry each. Hearts will come out from them after they are fed and they will start circling each other. This will produce a baby fox that trusts you. There is no way to tame naturally spawned foxes, but you can tame bred foxes.
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Remove the parents from the baby. The baby fox will trust you, but it will also follow any nearby adult foxes, so if you scare them, they will run away and bring the fox kit with them. Attach a lead to the fox kit and walk away, or kill the parents. If there are no adult foxes nearby a baby that trusts you will follow you. You won't have to keep adult foxes away forever, though. It will grow up.
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Enjoy your new pet fox! Foxes can hold all items in their mouths, and perhaps spawn with one. You can get a fox to drop the item it is currently holding by tossing any food but cake at them, and they will pick it up and eat it to restore health. Foxes can also attack mobs that attack you, and passive mobs like chickens. (Be careful-- they can leap over fences!) If you give your fox an enchanted sword, they will use that enchantment when attacking, without harming durability.

Method 4

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Parrots

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Gather wheat seeds, melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, or beetroot seeds.
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Find a parrot. Parrots are rare mobs usually found in jungle biomes. There are five different colors of parrots: red, blue, green, cyan, and gray.
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Feed the parrot the seeds until hearts come out from it.
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Enjoy your pet parrot! Parrots can perch on your shoulder and mimic mob noises. They dance if they are near a jukebox with a music disc inside. They won't take any damage while on your shoulder, but there is one poison: cookies. Feeding a cookie to a parrot will kill it.
- Take good care of your parrot since they cannot be bred. They have no baby form.

Method 5

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Farm Animals

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Lure the animal into an enclosed area. Fences with a fence gate make a great barrier, as you can still see the animals but they cannot jump over the blocks. This can be done by holding the respective food, they are as follows
- Sheep, cows, mushroom cows (brown and red) - wheat
- Pigs - carrots, potatoes, and beetroots
- Chickens - any type of seed, and nether wart
- Horses and Donkeys - golden apples or carrots (They will follow wheat and bread, but cannot eat them.)
- Rabbits - Dandelions and carrots (golden works too)
- Bees - Flowers of any kind, including the wither rose. (since they can fly, they don't need a pen.)
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Enclose the area in which you lured the animals to. Make sure they can't escape.
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Breed the animal. Using the same food that you lured the animal with, feed two of the animals and let them breed. You can then make more animals to breed with, and eat the parents.

Community Q&A

Question

Can a skeleton horse be turned back to a normal horse?

Abigail Baskin

Community Answer

Yes. Splash the skeleton horse with a potion of regeneration, then feed it a golden apple.
Question

Where can you find a horse in this version of minecraft?

Community Answer

It's tricky, but in the case of a thunderstorm, you will find skeleton horses where a lightning bolt lands.
Question

Do tame ocelots and tame wolves get along?

Community Answer

Yes. They do not interact negatively with each other once tamed. Some people even say that they can build relationships.

Warnings

If you make your pets sit, it will not teleport to you.

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Dogs are smart enough not to attack creepers.

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Cats will repel creepers from a certain distance. That doesn't stop creepers from following you, however.

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Wild wolves will attack pet foxes unprovoked.

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Your pets could die, so use splash potions to heal them.

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Cats sit on chests and prevent them from opening. It may be annoying to always have to command them to stand before opening a chest, and since other players cannot command your cat to stand, they will be unable to open the chest easily without hurting it.

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Polar bears will attack any foxes that go near them.

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You can command your pet to sit and plant 4 spruce saplings around it. When they grow, your pet will "suffocate in a wall."

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