2 Questions: Regarding Pets; Regarding Runes

Thats easy never use a pet they are just a pain i have one but is in permanent hibernation mode.

you're not using your pet correctly

There is no increase of bad salvaging the more times you salvage your rune, and there is no limit to the amount of times you salvage.

Pets may not work for you. I find that you should get one at the very beginning if at all. The best one's are Melanderu's Stalkers. They are lvl 5 and a lvl 2 ranger can charm them. As for their usefulness, they are very good. Since I got mine when I was lvl 2, if has always been about 1-2 lvls ahead of me. This mean that when I become lvl 20, in about a week or two, the pet will be lvl 20 as well. Think about it, an extra lvl 20 character in combat. And it doesn't count as your party. They are also easy to keep alive as resurecting them is easy. The only bad thing is that you have to have the charm animal thing in your skill bar, and that takes up space. Right now i'm a lvl 6 and my pet is lvl 7, so you might see the asset.

Having a pet is not like having a level 20 character, however with with only 60 AL is like having a elementalist go in melee. You should know how disasterous those are =P

I'm a W/R and i captured a Moa Bird as a pet. Once I got him to 20 (which wasn't that hard), i figured out that, well, it was a waste of space. Having the charm and heal/res spell for pet + the capture signet was not enough to keep me alive and damage at the same time. Pets are great but as Eclair said, they are not that great. Now, unless you have the Elder Widow Spider :P That is a different story.