if playing dark elf, pet manager martin asks you to kill monsters in dark elven forest: lesser dark horrors, dark horrors, prowlers. these monsters doesn't seem to exist anymore since swampland is overrun by high lvl monsters now.
there is also problem with getting wolf... during taking test, question about how long it takes for pet (after being killed) to be permanently dead. the npc says it is 24 hours... but there is no 24h option on test... the options: "none of above" and "25" do not work. the third time i did the test i did not get this question, so i got the wolf...
it does disappear if dead, it wont run away if not fed like before when bots forgot to put food in pet inventory or it run out over night. m
well, unless they changed it in god it doesn't. on h5 it could be dead for month and you still could res him back. check what's the fourth answer on that question in-game and try it.