You can’t buy any of those skills without skill points, a system that’ll be familiar to you if you’ve played any. A quick look at Mr Pigginton’s stat screen told us that they gain XP by being ridden around. Oh, score! He loves being ridden, and we love being lazy.
Pets can have different rarities, too. Our second pet pig, Sir Oinksly, had the very-impressive-sounding diamond rarity, which means he got a +1XP boost, too. Now, we don’t want to play favourites so… oh, Mr Piggington is out of earshot? In that case, you’re our favourite, Sir Oinksly. Don’t tell Mr P.
After a few minutes of pleasant pig-riding and enjoying the lovely da-ding of the levelling up sound, we got Sir Oinksly to level five. Which means we’d earned our first skill point! Well, we suppose technically Sir Oinksly is the one who earned it, but now you’re just being pedantic, reader. Cut it out.