Closed Capture Pods

So I've been using the capture pods and I've noticed that once they die, I pick up their capture pod and go to throw the pod out only for my player to wave their arm around and do nothing.

 

Buy the healing pet station and heal them right up.

 

yep exactly as genjiworks said.

They are used pretty much exactly like pokemon
so when they become injured they can't fight.

you need to make the pet capture pod station inside that there is a crafting option for a healing station for them.
which if i remember correctly that crafting station is made with tier 3 Architect's Table

i remember getting some capture pods early ingame when the Erchius Mining Facility was accessible without commands.....i rushed though because i forget the oxygen pack...don't know how bandages heal a oxygen starved body....but i got those pods at the end with the reward...returned and caught two of them.

later on i had no way of healing them...character waved their arm and did the cry emotion.

 

If you're using captured monsters without the healing station, you can use healing water as an alternative, you can find it in some desert and forest sub-biomes