...if the duration is too short then the pet's tendency will automatically use the skill instead of attacking with regular attacks.

As an aside, you can also use "Stat Watchers" to manage when your pet can use a Skill or not.  I found this old TL1-era discussion on the topic, with a couple of examples:  "Torchlight AI editing". 

I am planning on trying this out for some pets of my own, eventually.  ;} 

wow. is that already a mod @Korzeam ?  Or are you proposing to make this for the pet merge mod?

If pets can have different stats, it would be nice to display them at creation screen.
Something like in the picture.

Wow it's looks great, the information about the pet is very helpful. Maybe you can add size & the skill information he has later.

good idea but i advise you to do it in phases - its very easy to burn-out
and dont forget to ask for help! once you have a development-design in your head, let us know if there are portions you would like to ask help for

Yes, you're right.
This functionality would fit more for phase 3.

Maybe you can help for one thing.
If I manage ton include all the pets, there will be a lot of them (more than 100).
Having 6 pets per page in creation window would'nt be nice.
Even if I re-use the Variant classes UI frame, it would only be 12 per page.
20 (4x5) per page would be more satisfying.

I have spent some time to study the MAINMENUMOD.LAYOUT file, but I didn't find the place where the number of pets and the layout can be changed.
Do you have an idea ?

Never mind @Phanjam, I think i got it.

Here are some additional Pet made by @Kva3imoda:

- Goba



- Joda

Some other:

- Star Wars Pets Beta 1.11 (Somehow every time I try this Mod I always crash, I hope this can be fixed.)

For information I've officially started to work on the project.
I'm still in phase 1, it takes some time to check all the mods but I make progress.

Thanks @Korzeam ! Is there any "side work" we can help u with? I imagine checking all those pets can be repetitive/boring. Maybe we can help for some pets. Or do u need icons for some, etc?