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[Megawott06]

I have a quick question. How does the [PET] tag actually work? Is it enough to let a creature have it and dwarves will domesticate it or if not, what tags will I need to add to the dwarven entity file to make it happen?

[AceSV]

I think what you actually need [COMMON_DOMESTIC] for it to show up as something you can embark with. I don't know exactly what [PET] does. 

[scamtank]

You got the gist of it. If a civilization encounters a creature with the [PET] tag (a biome with a creature population is within a certain distance from a site), they should find it and domesticate it in worldgen. [WAGON_PULLER], [PACK_ANIMAL] and [MOUNT] tags further dictate what it's actually used for.

[COMMON_DOMESTIC] means a creature is so thoroughly ubiquitous and widely traded that it's available to all entities that use them. They don't need to occur in the wild at all.

[PET_EXOTIC] creatures are weird and wild enough that only specific adventurers and crazy frontier outposts (you, the player) will try taming them. Having the [USE_ANY_PET_RACE] entity token bypasses these restrictions and lets a civ auto-domesticate everything they can reach.

[Megawott06]

Ok. Thanks for the help. (I have removed all [PET_EXOTIC] and replaced them with [PET] )

[AceSV]

Ok. Thanks for the help. (I have removed all [PET_EXOTIC] and replaced them with [PET] )

If that is your goal, it would probably be easier to give your dwarf civ [USE_ANY_PET_RACE] instead, unless you want a few specific creatures to be tameable but not automatically tamed.  I use [USE_ANY_PET_RACE] for my furry fortress civs and I love it.  It only tames creatures that your civ has come in contact with, so for example in my game, Vulps start in tundra biomes, so they usually have muskox, polar bears and wolves, while Komodos start in the desert or tropics, so they usually have all kinds of snakes and reptiles, big cats, and so forth. 

[milo christiansen]

Giant tigers. Wait, make that GIANT TIGERS!!!

War trained Giant Tigers can rip armored goblins to shreds without taking a scratch! Rubble adds a "saurian" race that has USE_ANY_PET_RACE, and when I am playing dwarves or gnomes I eagerly await my first saurian caravan so I can order them (sadly they are not always available).

There is a way to use DFHack to add specific pets to specific races, Masterwork does that if I remember correctly.