I’ve added a couple of new pages to Petopia. There’s an extra special bit of info hidden in one of those pages, so make sure you take a look!

• Extinct Pets: Pets that are going extinct in the wild.
• Transformed Pets: Family and appearance changes.

The standard disclaimer applies: I may have screwed up somewhere so take all the data with a grain of salt. And if you see a mistake, let me know!

We’ve been talking about existing pets that are going to change appearances come Patch 4.0.3a, but there are actually a couple that will be undergoing a more drastic alteration: their family is changing. (In two cases this also involves a change of appearance.)

If you have one of these pets tamed, then come Patch 4.0.3a it WILL change to the new family (and the new look). Be prepared!

Pet	Old Family	Old Look	New Family	New Look	Look Replacement
Onslaught Bloodhound	Hyena		Dog		Desolace Hyenas Uldum: Mangy Hyena
Scarlet Tracking Hound	Hyena		Dog		Tanaris: Slaverjaw Uldum: Bloodsnarl Hyena
Vargul Blighthound	Wolf		Dog		N/A

For some reason I feel like I’m running out of time, so today I’m just going to hit all of the rest of the existing pets that I know will be changing appearances. Many of these are not anything to get excited about, but there are some interesting changes.

I posted cats, worms, and ravagers already.

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Some existing cats are changing their appearance come Cataclysm. So are some existing worms. Who else? Today we’ll look at ravagers!

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Patch 4.0.3a is now available for testing on the Public Test Realms (PTR). Patch 4.0.3a is “The Shattering” – the patch that will change the landscape of Azeroth forever.

And changing the landscape changes the pets.

So if you’d like to check out the coming Cataclysmic pets – at least the ones in the existing zones – you can copy a character over to the PTR.

To start the process, head to battle.net and log into your account. You’ll find the Public Test Realm link under the Additional Services tab. Be aware that the PTR may include what we colloquially call a big-ass download.