Aha!

Quintessence wrote:and when you mouse over the actual critter a new crosshair cursor icon appears rather than the standard attack sword icon.

So does that mean they're unkillable, preventing the hunter tame problem?

Question from someone who isn't in the beta yet - As far as I'm aware, pet battles aren't implemented yet, how do you determine which critters are wild pets? Does their tooltip state this?

Doobjanka wrote:Squirrel

Now I know my setup. Squirrel, Mechanical Squirrel and Nuts