Trained Pet
 

Is it possible to add a trained pet? There are familiars and companions for some classes but I am looking to add a Trained Bird or guard dog.

Under Equipement>Gear>Gear, if you scroll all the way down there's a section for Animals. However that only adds the animal as a "container" in your inventory, it doesn't create an actual minion with stats etc.

Alternatively, you could create an animal as a separate NPC "character" from the main HLO screen, and give it whatever stats and abilities you think appropriate. To see its stats you'd just have to switch back and forth from your main character. (If you needed to access it frequently during play, you could always keep the animal open in another tab.) However, there doesn't seem to be a way (yet) to "attach" such a creature to a PC as a Minion within HLO.