1) There was some kind of giant turtle swimming around in the pond behind where I put my house. It did not try to eat me when I got close. That seemed like a good plus in the tameable category.
[seems that they are decent things to try and tame, apparently excellent when near water, according to the wiki. Which I seemed to be surrounded by.]
2) I made a club because that item claimed to render stuff unconscious. And lacking any other obvious bets for taming that seemed like it would work.
[I had a slingshot but failed to realize I needed rocks in my inventory to make it work]
3) I walked up to it and started bludgeoning it in the face.[A club is apparently one if not the WORST tool to try to tame these things with] It did not like that. And kept biting me I ran away into my hut, and it decided it wanted to break my hut, so I ran out and started throwing spears at it.
4) After a few spears to the face it started running away, and I followed it with my club beating it on it's tail until it fell over. Success! I knocked it out by bludgeoning it's ass! I guess that's where dinosaurs keep their brains.
5) All I had was berries so I dumped my entire inventory of berries into it's inventory. The numbers are counting down and there is a little tame meter now. Clearly I am doing it right!
6) Wow this is taking forever.
[I had a few special purple berries, I should have noticed if it ate those first and went and got more, I guess if I must use berries to tame those are the ones to use.]
7) It seemed to be waking up faster than the tame meter was going up, so I beat it in the head with a club a few times.
[Worst possible way to do it apparently. I was supposed to force feed it narco berries, which it had in it's inventory but it won't eat unless I make it. Beating it with a club did indeed keep it's torpor up, but it also pretty much literally beat it stupid.]
And then yay! after nearly an hour I had my own brand new turtle named daisy!
9) In our travels immediately after I find another turtle with a heart over it's head. As I'm trying to get them as close as possible to see if it means what I think it means we get attacked by compies. A stray spear hits romeo and Daisy starts attacking him. I'm too busy stabbing little demon lizards to notice. Male turtle kills daisy. I GTFO.