Players get access to capture pods very early in the game, but we don't get access to a pet healer station for quit a while afterwords. (I got my first pods after the Erchius Mining Facility, so I have quite a few hours of gameplay before I see the Pet Station) In between our first pods, and the Pet Station we really need a way of healing defeated pets. A suggestion that I think would be fun is to have a "pokemon center" like setup in the outpost, where a pink-haired human female with a knack for creatures offers to heal our wounded animal companions. (She may have to charge us for her services now that Earth has been destroyed and she has lost her government funding.)