Noided is puppeting cesare he's gonna punt fent in his xans as a humanoid crane and it's probably the most practical use i dont tend to flesh out my characters a lot tbh but yeah traps and stuff will help.
i have gone so far as to reject the word "pet" and insist on its replacement by "animal companion." Leftish anthropologists go to great lengths to avoid saying anything about primitive peoples that could conceivably be interpreted as negative.