Originally posted by Blue Heavy Booty Executioner:

Summoning skills or Hunter skills

Taming animals isn't a skill. You can tame boars, wolves and loxx by tossing food they will eat on the ground near them and hiding yourself nearbywhile they eat of it. They can't be in a panic (!) state or they won't begin taming. After a while they'll tame and become friendly. You can then breed them and wolves will follow you around and attack anything that attacks you or gets too close.