Why are all the animals stronger than me?

This depends on a lot of things.. for example if your on multiplayer and your wolf say its level 15 and all of the npc ( non player characters ) are level 50 because someone on the server is a high level. This could be one reason why they are all stronger than you another reason is that you have not upgraded your animals stats etc health , speed and power you will need elixir to upgrade your animals stats ( you can get elixir from the chests ) make sure its the purple elixir the green one is for your pet. When you level up the npcs around you also level up and they get stronger so you will need to upgrade your animal and get stronger. I recommend you upgrade your health and power first then later on in the game upgrade your speed.