Soon into Outland I discovered I really wanted a white / purple Warpstalker, and I tamed one as soon as I could. She’s called Daisy, and she’s my current instancing pet while Starr is being brought up to par. I think, eventually, I’ll just use her for PvP as the warp ability seems suited to that.

The last stable slot is taken up by the purple / green tallstrider that I tamed the second I reached level 70. Normally I would never go for a tallstrider, but she looks so pretty! I named her Chicken and I get the most comments about her, ranging from “tallstriders suck!” to “where did you get that!?”. She’s mainly for show and when I’m soloing.

Of course I didn’t completely get rid of my old pets… I just made an alt hunter. :)

Though I’ve a real soft spot for raptors I’m considering resurrecting my Frostsaber Pridewatcher named Lily who was the very first pet I had at level 60 on my very first hunter. If it gets tough trying to keep two levelled from 60-70 then Lily will be the one I drop, Paragon isn’t going anywhere.

My orc huntress Yococo (Arathor EU) has been running around all her pet-owning life together with her trusty boar Snout (once a Corrupted Mottled Boar), tamed at level 10 just outside Orgrimmar, and still at her side at level 70. It is a shame that the skin has been used for several boars – Snout’s black boar skin is pretty common. In the stable the turtle Gonzalez still roams, once tamed in hillsbrad foothills at level 31, and currently level 67. Occasionally Yococo runs around with the (children’s week vanity pet) Speedy and Gonzalez together. It is a shame that turtles cannot learn any focus sink spell – that makes them a lot less useful than they could have been. I have tried to keep both pets up in level as Yococo leveled, but especially in outland that was hard at times. I had to hold back turning in quests to prevent leveling too far ahead of the two pets.

My tauren hunter Yoco (also on Arathor EU) has been accompanied by Tweetsie since he learned to tame pets. Tweetsie originally was a level 8 Mulgore Swoop (a vulture, black skin). I tried to name it Tweety (after the little yellow cartoon character bird), but that name was refused. Very recently Tweetsie got company – completely in style of the Tweety cartoons, there now is Sylvester – a Ripfang Lynx tamed at level 69 in an ecodome in Netherstorm. Getting Sylvester’s loyalty up to best friend took a long time, and without your research in how pet leveling works I might have given up under the assumption that something was broken.

My nightelf huntress Yocozoot (Stormrage EU) is both my oldest and youngest hunter. Oldest in the sense that it was one of the first characters I created, youngest in the sense of being ‘only’ level 61. She has been stuck at level 40 for about two years. When I ‘dusted her off’ I decided to change her pets as well, waving goodbye to the bear Fluffy and taming Baldrick, once a level 40 vulture in the badlands, near Kargath (with the exact same skin as Yoco’s Tweetsie). As she is still leveling, and having found that leveling two pets simultaneously is not fun, Baldrick is Yocozoot’s only pet for now…