I stumbled upon this question: My ranger has tamed an absurd number of Animal Companions with Handle Animal
In the uses of Handle Animal, most similar thing I have seen is:
Rear a Wild Animal
To rear an animal means to raise a wild creature from infancy so that it becomes domesticated. A handler can rear as many as three creatures of the same kind at once.
A successfully domesticated animal can be taught tricks at the same time it’s being raised, or it can be taught as a domesticated animal later.
but I hear / see / read about people using this skill to tame adult animals, too. What rule or combination may be used for that effect? Wild Empathy could change animal's attitude from wild animal's unfriendly to domesticated animal's neutral or friendly all right, but I don't see how would it give an ability to teach said animal tricks.
Best Answer
By RAW, you can't turn an adult wild animal into a "domestic" animal. The only time making a wild animal domestic is mentioned is in the rule you quoted, and that specifically talks about raising an animal from infancy.
You can, however, train it. Training it gives it tricks and makes it easier to control, so functionally during games it doesn't tend to be a lot different (unless your campaign has you trying to leave a Wolf on a ranch, I suppose).
If you intend to bring your wild Dire Lion into town, you just want to make sure it knows a trick like Heel, as that's a great one to keep it by your side and not doing what wild animals do.
You do that with Handle Animal and it's "Teach a Trick" or "Train for a Purpose" abilities.