Xella wrote:
Oh no, stuff like that's totally fine. I'm talking about pets whose names are pretty obviously against the naming policy, and also things like "IEATU" or "watugonadobtit" or the like.
Hunters and pets who share a name also bother me, but that's marginally less common these days than it was when PvPers would name themselves identically so that targetting addons wouldn't target the right entity (or when my guildmates would name their pets after our tanks—this was pre-[@focus] so our MD macros all had specific player names in them)
Haha no worries. Even if it was at me, hey! It's all good

I just thought it'd be a funny story at least! Though, ironically, Lamp is a Sporebat who looks identical to the one in your signature. So it was amusing either way (at least to me, lol!)
LupisDarkmoon wrote:
This is a very very common thing and I feel bad that I always get kind of haughty about it, but rare pets named what they're called in the wild has always bothered me. This goes quadruple for Loques named Loque/Loquenahak and on a slightly lesser part, Skolls named Skoll.
(as always these are pet peeves that mean no offense, and I don't consider any of these to be the True and Proper opinion- if anything they're very silly things to be irritated by, and anyone with a stable of rares all named what the mob is called, y'all are great)
I'm DEFINITELY guilty of this one. I have a Skoll named "Sköll" and Gara is named "Gara". XD Though, it wasn't because of something of unoriginality. I kept Gara's name Gara because I felt that I wasn't the original owner, so I had no right to rename her. So I kept the original name. Originally my Skoll was named "Raiju", but when Legion came out and it was told that Skoll was Thorim's wolf, I changed his name back to Sköll because I felt that was his original name given to him by his original owner.
So even though I kept them the same, there was (personally) a reason for it.
And definitely NO offense was taken at all XD As I said before, I just find some of the pet peeves really amusing because sometimes it's a good way to share stories and talk about why some people do the things they do, even if its a tiny peeve.
I did think of one "pet peeve" though.
Hydra pets, especially that one from Blackwing Descent. I tamed it too, so I'm guilty of the same crime, but anyone who has that pet... @________@ Oh my gosh that constant hissing and growling sound it makes during idle animations. Why it does it SO OFTEN is beyond me. But as soon as I see a Hunter with that pet, I will instantly go to a different end of the lodge XDD