To take care of your animals first it's preferable to tame by staying with them when they hatch from their egg, use the Dinopedia to find the item you can use to give orders, such as:
STICK:[]
Used on:
You can control your herbivorous creatures with when to sit down, when to follow, or to simply wander.
BONE:[]
Used on:
SKULL STICK:[]
Used on:
- -Megalania
- -(Before 8.0.0) Liopleurodon
NAUTILUS SHELL:[]
Used on:
Arrow:[]
Used on:
CANNOT BE CONTROLLED:[]
FOOD[]
To see what your dinosaur likes you will need a Dinopedia to see her/his preferred food.
Some dinosaurs don't eat from feeders, and this is a problem! So you need bonemeal to plant some plants for herbivores and omnivores eat: regular Minecraft plants, normal food or prehistoric plants.
Breeding[]