So what pets are you surprised that you tamed/kept?

[Shade]

Been running around looking at all the new tamables.

Found myself picking up This guy-and his picture does NOT do him justice. He is really a gorgeous cat, this shot is not the best for him.

I've also been surprised that I am really tempted to keep As I was never a fan of the carrion bird as a whole.

Anything that you've spotted and just had to tame, even though you originally thought you wouldn't go for it?

[pengupuff]

I'm surprised I kept Araga, to be honest. I was planning to ditch her for one of the new saber cats, but every cat I've tamed doesn't quite make as much of an impression on me as Araga did. I know her skin is no longer unique, but I will be keeping her nonetheless, and she will be the only cat in my stable.

I'm REALLY surprised I tamed Chromaggus. I didn't have too much interest in him initially, and was very happy with my Magmadar... but I ended up pugging into a BWL group, and when there weren't any other hunters I figured I'd give him a shot. So now I have TWO core hounds. xD

I'm also surprised that I haven't been able to part with any of my birds... I have 2 birds of prey and 3 carrion birds. O.o I'd like to have more variety in my stables, but I can't get rid of any of these guys! I'll list them off:
- Amun
- Darnovan
- Condar
- Spite
- Vultros

Too many birds! >.<

[peanutbuttercup]

For me the biggest surprise were the three armored boars. I don't like pigs at all in real life and thought the squealing would drive me crazy. But I totally get a kick out of them now, and they really are good tanks for me. 2-manned the first boss in Tempest Keep by using one as the offtank : )

[Setanta]

I mostly dropped pets that I taming spree'd before 4.0.3, I dumped the "original" Cerebus (white core hound) when I went to do BWL for Chromaggus (new Cerebus), I dumped regular core hound Magmadar when I went and tamed the real Magmadar. I dropped the black lion Pitch and the Orange Devilsaur after I had picked up Loque'Nahak and King Krush. I dropped my cursed offspring of har'koa cat for winna's kitten. And I'm debating now whether or not I'll keep Shango whom I inexplicably tamed before 4.0.3 on the off chance that the old Shango would have the old skin. Oh, I also dumped one of the Silithus Silithid yesterday for Vem, since Vem was the only one of the bug royals that I could get tamed before getting feared.

[Novikova]

My parrot really grew on me. I'm kinda startled the white spotted frostsaber grew on me too. O_o As has my brain bug. At first I was like, ewww. Then I ran around with him and everyone loves him.

[Nenuarë]

I'm surprised to have tamed and kept Ungula, the purple nether ray :


I never planned to tame such a strange creature

[Sarayana]

There's a few for me; tamed on a whim (some because I was with my friend and grabbed 'em as she did) and now staying:

Strap is totally Sara's style, surprisingly. I love him.

I saw a post by Acherontia from the ptr and liked this guy's look, so I picked him up. Absynthe won me over in 0.5 seconds.

Wasn't going to get one of these but when the encounter reset after her tame I thought why the hell not. I wasn't completely convinced until I found the perfect name - Tallulah is my other silithid (the ant model who I also tamed on a whim and loooooove!) Malone's on-again-off-again flame.

[VelkynKarma]

Definitely this. I nabbed her on Silinrul just a few hours ago.

See originally I was heading to catch a boat at Stormwind. I came from Northrend, so I landed in Menethil Harbor. I figured hey, I'm in the area...I'll go to Loch Modan and check out one of those golden eagles. I saw them on Hadyn yesterday and figured they looked interesting, Silinrul might fit with one.

So I tamed one, and at first I was really disappointed. Her fight was glitchy, like the crow models used to be! I ran to the water to see if she flew correctly while swimming--she did. Disappointed, I ran back up onto land and figured I'd release her, but then--she flew normally. Oh....okay. Maybe she just had to despawn/respawn. And...when I run, she GLIDES after me. COOL! And she flies up to get things in the air...SWEET. And what's this button? "Trick"? I wonder what this do--OMG MY EAGLE DOES A FLIP WHEN I PRESS IT. SO COOL!

So Ulvirel is officially Sil's new pet of sheer awesome, she's very majestic and I love her, but totally hadn't planned on loving her this much XD

~VelkynKarma

[Setanta]

you know what would be awesome is if it's trick was to divebomb gnomes...much hilarity should ensue.

[Daranara]

For my main hunter, I've never been a big fan of "pets you can't easily hug", which means no ghost pets, not many bugs, so on and so forth. I let go my ghost worm and Gondria because of it, and am still toying with releasing Temil the glow-bear... so it completely shocked me when I fell in love with this guy:



Thoth is nothing at all like her usual style, but for some reason the more he's there with her, the more I like him. Go figure!

[Kalliope]

*makes unintelligible murloc noises*

For the record, this is all Gumbo's fault.



Pygmalion is single-handedly screwing up my stable right now. I was going to have a blue warp stalker (<3<3<3) on Kalliope for fun (and also the snare)! But now it seems that I may not be getting one on her after all (which throws Kallimon's stable into disarray, but that's another story entirely). I liked this croc from the get-go, but didn't expect a keeper. After all, I have Gumbo. Why does Kalliope need a croc too? *sigh* I'm very torn about giving up this guy too, since he actually spawned for me as the Large Loch Crocolisk before the patch while I was taking Ursa to visit himself before those bears were removed forever. So I'm attached and kinda don't want to morph him. Sigh! xD

[Kurasu]

Definitely the seagull. Dai has really captured my heart. I have Trick macro'd so I can click him for a loop-de-loop in mid-run, and the seagull noises make me absolutely glee. The fact he's so tiny is an absolute joy for me as well. I love my big pets, but the teeny little seagull is just my absolute dear! He's definitely going to be a regular part of my team, useless special attack for PVE or otherwise!

I also have really gotten attached to my worm. My golden worm, as yet unnamed, did a whole lot of dungeon crawls with me, and I didn't much think that I would get so attached. But as of yet, I've been unable to bring myself to release it, even though I know for a fact I just can't drop the black Jormungar. I know that eventually he'll probably lose, but... it's just so *hard*!