Pets for different situations?

[docseuzz]

Now that stable pet is on a 5-minute cooldown - it's definitely feasible to mix-n-match pets for fights... What I was thinking is to have the following pets:

single-target dps - boss fights - right now I use a devilsaur or a spirit beast- mostly because I happen to tame one and don't want to give him up.
Alternates:cat/raptor/wolf

Tanking - soloing - I pretty much just use a bear - any tanking pet will suffice.

Here's the fun part - should I have a separate pet for burning through trash mobs? I'm thinking either to do a dps-talented bear for swipe/thunderstomp:
http://www.wowhead.com/?petcalc#0sdbh0hzf0oM

or, taking a look at the only other pet w/ aoe damage abilities,
a sporebat:
http://www.wowhead.com/?petcalc#ckdc00fh0Mk0b

[Lilandre]

Gotta love sporecloud, its like an aoe Faerie fire <3 Wolves are kinda a jack of all trades when it comes to pve but sporebats can boost all physical damage done by everyone else so its a fair tradeoff.
Carrion birds can save druid and warrior tanks a little rage and a gcd with their debuff, and tallstriders can make all enemies withing 10 feet miss an attack, though they dont really add much to aoe dps.

[docseuzz]

Of course, the big PITA is to have to level a sporebat up from 75...

[Lilandre]

Not so bad now. Just run a few heroics, but switch to a lvl 80 pet for harder ones or if your told to.

[Ryno]

Of course, the big PITA is to have to level a sporebat up from 75...

I leveled my Chimaera to 80 from 75 quite fast, it surprised me. I just farmed some gorillas and other beasts in Sholazar. Maybe 3 hours combined time tops? It didn't take long at all.