Niabi wrote:
This may be a stupid question ... and I aplogize if it is but I have to ask ... what makes a breed more preferrable than the others? Is it based on the pet type like Beast, Humanoid, Mechanical, etc.?
Breeds are mostly important when it comes to more competitive battling. Every companion pet has a hidden 'breed' which determines which of its stats (health/power/speed) are stronger (there are addons which reveal these breeds, otherwise they're not even displayed really in the game). Some have high health and low damage, for example, some are more evenly distributed. That's a very simplified way of explaining it, but if you're just a casual collector it probably won't matter too much. Specific breeds can be useful when it comes to going up against tough fights though and you want to min/max their potential essentially.
In this instance, it would be disappointing to get a version of one of these special Deadmines pets that had crappy stats that are determined by a roll of the dice if you wanted to use them in battles.