If I take a cat at a lower level, and I level it all the way to 60, does it gain newer skills? Like a higher leveled dash/claw/bite? Or does it only assume a certain level and I must dismiss it and get a higher leveled cat to get the better ranks?
IIRC, you have to tame new pets to learn new pet ability ranks which you then teach to your other pets.
So, is it just best to tame a higher leveled cat every “x” amount of levels? What is recommended?
So basically you can use a chart like this, or manually scout using the Beast Lore ability, to determine if a beast is tamable and what abilities (and ability ranks) they know.
When you find a beast with a higher rank of an ability, you can stable you main pet and then train the new one. You’ll have to see the new pet use the ability a few times, and then you learn the new rank (there will be a system message that says "You have learned Claw (Rank 3)" and it’ll be added to your Beast Training tab, and then you can teach that new rank to your old pet.
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This will show you were to find all of the abilities to learn. Remember you have to use them to finally gain them under beast training a certain number of times. This means taming a new pet for each one.
https: //www. wow -petopia.com/classic/abilities.php
This is an archived version that I had bookmarked for use on Nost. I find it easier to read and navigate, but there’s some TBC info on there that you can just ignore.
Ok awesome. I’ll surely read up on the sites to get some info.
So is it actually possible to gain spells from a different kind of pet and learn it on another? Not only a “higher” level of that rank but a whole NEW spell… like thunder strike for a cat?
No. Some spells are racial. Only gorillas can thunder stomp. Only boars can charge. Some animals can’t bite. Some can’t claw, etc.
If your pet can’t learn a certain spell, the number of training points required will be blank.
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Ahhhh… so if I want a higher leveled claw or bite… stuck with that same type of beast… but higher level NPC to tame? Gotcha. That seems easy to deal with then lol
Some abilities are shared between types (like Claw and Bite), and some are unique to just one family.
So for example, you could learn Claw 3 from an Owl and then teach it to your Cat.
Yes. Easy and fun. I was so disappointed when this disappeared from retail. The crapaclysm prepatch. Same time they removed ammo.
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OP as others have said petopia is your bible. Also get at least 1 stable slot post haste. Find the skin you want and keep your loyal friend till 60 and swap them out for the kleenex pets you just need skills off of. I just tame them and fight the nearest thing to learn the skill and as soon as I do haul booty a direction and abandon 
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You have to learn the offensive skills you want your pet to learn. Pet trainers only teach passive moves and Growl.
You need to stable your pet and tame a pet that knows the move you want to teach your cat. Play with the temporary pet until you get a message that you successfully have learned X move. Then you can release your temporary pet and train your pet. Rinse, repeat for any desired levels.
If your pet is already 60 then you will only need to learn the highest level of bite, claw and either prowl or dash.
Here is a fantastic site for 411 about Classic pets:
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However I recommend that you learn each move you can jik you decide to tame a pet that can learn it 
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Ya I’m a bit obsessive about it. Every few levels I check all the new pets that are tameable that can teach new spells and I stop all leveling and travel the world taming them.
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Not exactly. Some levels of even the standard abilities only appear on particular mobs. If you want that highest level, you have to tame one of those, use the ability until you “learn” it, and then you can train that level of ability on your current pet. Furious Howl 4 is one of those - it appears only on certain Wargs in LBRS. You have to go there and tame one of those Wargs to get the ability.
As others have said, hit Petopia and read up. They have a list of all the abilities, their levels, and which mobs have them.
You can cross train only those abilities that your pet can learn. Certain birds can learn Dive for example, but not Dash. Other pets can learn Dash but not Dive (as it’s a bird ability), and many can’t learn either.
Another thing to consider is the innate attack speed of individual pets. In Classic, certain mobs have higher attack speeds, making them more useful against casters as they interrupt them more often. Broken Tooth is one of those (1.0 APS vs. the next lowest 1.2). DeathMaw is the dog with the lowest attack speed, or you can instead tame a Warg in Shadowfang Keep (which also has 1.0 attack speed) and level him up.
Classic Pets are much more involved than in Retail, and much more engaging (and fun) as a result.
With all of this said, I have read up on the Petopia site but I can’t seem to find my answer on this question -
Let’s say I have an owl that I tamed when I was a level 15 (same level as me) and get that owl ALL the way to 60, does it have the same exact amount of health as if I tamed a level 59 owl and leveled it to 60 (Say I got the same amount of loyalty built up on both and “leveled” the stamina trait)?
Also, besides the attack speed and active skills, is there any difference between the different colored beasts? If I have a cat colored tan vs black, but both yield the same attack speed… At that point it’s just personal preference, no?
Is it also best to have a pet that can learn both CLAW and BITE?
Yes, they should have the same stats except for attack speed, and whatever you’ve trained them with.
That’s correct, once you’ve accounted for attack speed and skills, it’s just different skins.
Yes, a level 60 pet has all the training points available to it that a pet you leveled all the way to 60 has. There are only two differences (at first). One is the innate attack speed. There is nothing you can do about that except find and tame the fastest pet (hence people camping Broken Tooth for weeks).
Two is that you have to get the pet to the highest level of Loyalty (Level 6). You do that by killing stuff with it, and feeding it (obviously). You’ll notice your pet “dings” even after 60 in that case. It means it’s gone up a Loyalty level, and you have access to more training points.
By the way, training points aren’t “lost”. You are only ever charged the difference between the cost of the previous level of a skill, and the new level, not the entire cost of the new level. So if you went from Claw 2 to Claw 3 for example, and the costs were 10 and 15 respectively, you’ll be refunded the 10 and 15 taken, meaning you only really spend 5 more.
If you have a fast attack speed cat, stable it, go learn the new rank of claw bite dash etc and then abandon the temporary pet once the skill is learned. ALL of the higher level cats are 2.0 speed. Better to level one as you go than have to kite everything for days while a pet levels.