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[ragincajun]

Found I had trapped a honey badger today.  Pretty sweet little animal so I assigned a trainer.  Wiki says they can't be trained, but then it's listed as an exotic which can be trained. 

Anyway, he shows trained.  I've toggled him to "available" as a pet.  Is there a way to assign pets to a particular person?  This would be good for a military member (I'd also like to know for war dogs as well), or is it just up to the animal who they attach to?  Currently he's following the trainer around...do I have to untoggle training for the animal?

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

No.  You cannot assign pets to specific dwarves, and IIRC dwarves will only take as pets animals that they prefer.  However, war dogs can be assigned from the v-screen.  Just press p and look for (IIRC) war animals.  There is an important difference between tamed and trained.  Tamed animals, such as those brought on embark, bought from traders, brought by migrants, or born to tamed/trained animals, will never go wild.  Trained animals will, over time.  A better-trained animal, trained by a more skilled animal trainer, will stay trained for longer.  Your badger is trained, not tamed.  Untoggling training will allow it to return to wild, meaning it will try to escape/attack dwarves.  Since it's a badger, I'd say probably the latter.

[PatrikLundell]

Also, when the wiki says a creature cannot be trained but lists it as an exotic pet, it can be tamed as a pet or semi domesticated animal, but not as a hunter/war work animal.

[Daris]

Assigning war dogs to the military was useless for me.  The dogs obey a civilian alert, so they never go into combat with the squad if an alert is active.

[GoblinCookie]

Becoming a pet is completely different from being trainable.

[Uggh]

To clarify: "trained" is used for two different but related features. This can be confusing.

Taming an animal results in the animal getting a certain level of tameness, from "wild" to "tame". "trained" is one of several intermediate levels of tameness an animal can get.
But some types of animals (e.g. dogs) can also be trained for war or hunting, giving them additional modifiers in battle and behaviour and allows them to be assigned to a certain dwarf as already mentioned. This does not change their tameness at all and can only be done with already tame animals.

A tameness level of "trained" and an animal "trained for war or hunting" are two different things.