Hey, I'm trying to beat the Tribal stage for the first time, and I have a captured pet (looks pretty deadly, too!).  Is there any way I can use him in battle, or get him to lay eggs for food?  Can someone tell me what they do?

I looked on GameFAQs, but their guide doesn't explain anything about them.

Nuts you can get pets? All I did was rape and pillage...

I think I may have to do another play through and not be such a d-bag to everything in the world lol

I think they give you food as time passes

When i used the "Beastmaster" special ability they helped me.

Other then that... no clue.

 Yeah, if you bring a wild animal 15 food (if it doesn't hate you), it becomes your pet.  I figured out what it does normally (I didn't have the Beastmaster ability)

It has a little corrale at your base, and there's a little trough that fills up with eggs now and then.  It's basically free food that respawns pretty quickly.

they just lay eggs for food and you have to get them out of the basket by the coupe. if that helps at all, i bin on the tribal stage have not finished it yet, i am having problems gaining allies

Also if you have any animals in your tribe at the end of creature phase they start off as pets.

yh i noticed that to. iu was a lil annoyed when i found out that i still could not use them, but i beat them up for meat thoguh so its all good

They also help you defend the village when raiders come.