I am a planner. Every single one of my hunters has a stable planned long before I even take my first tentative steps as a new hunter. That said, a few tames have not worked out that way!
First, there is Mozag's Pogeyan, Killer. I had admired the cat ever since I saw the PTR screenies, but I had a set theme for Mozag, and I did not intend to deviate from it. Pogeyan was going to my baby Orc, and that was the end of it. However, a great unhappiness for her current red lynx skin had been growing in Killer's heart. I was not happy with the way she looked next to Mozag, and I sensed that she wasn't pleased either. I tried doing some instances and Love Fool runs on her, but it just wasn't working. However, I did something I've not done before, and relegated her to the stables in the hopes that I would fall back in love with the skin. I usually ditch any pets as soon as they're not working, but I liked Killer's personality. So, she languished in the stables for a bit, while I ran around with different pets.
When the patch hit, I had to go to STV for the Love Fool achievement, and, being a hunter, I did a quick tour of the spawn points of the new rares. I didn't see the croc, I waved at the gorilla, and then...THERE. Oh my god. Pogeyan. In that split second Killer was reborn.
Thw other two happened for Lomelinda.
Heather and
Daffodil.
Lomelinda's stable theme is a loose "white, greyish or blue pets only", and she's gone through a lot of, in particular, cat tames before settling on the ones that stayed. Both the animals above I'd tamed on her before, but quickly got rid of since they didn't feel right. Besides, I already had loads of cats at that point, as well as my beloved white worg, Sweet Pea, Lome's great love. I let the two go, and didn't look back.
A few weeks back, I woke up in the morning and just KNEW I had to have that tan coyote back. Like, right NOW. So off I flew to Westfall and retamed the first one I came across. It didn't need to be a special tame, and it wasn't. Daffodil was home.
Also, a few weeks ago, I was in the process of culling out Lome's stables, particularly trying to sort out her issues with the many cats and bird of prey she had. After many agonising hours, I freed many that were no longer suitable, with the promise of taming them again on other hunters. The most difficult moment was giving up Tulip, my beautiful spotted saber cat who had been with me since I hit 10. Somewhere along the line though, despite the great love I have for the skin, we'd grown apart. It may have had to do with the fact that I was usually only using Lily, her lavender saber tiger, and also that Wulfhild, my Dwarf hunter would look amazing next to a cat of Tulip's skin.
So, with heavy heart I waved goodbye to my old friend, and released Tulip back to Teldrassil, where she can be found by Wulfhild soon. This left me with only one cat, and that's not a situation I'm entirely comfortable with either, despite removing them, since six was perhaps just a tad too many. But I couldn't decide on a skin. Everything just felt a bit blaah, but I knew there was one more out there waiting for me (until the white saber model comes along, that is!), and again, one morning I woke up with the certainty, that I had to bring Heather home.
Lomelinda hightailed it to Dun Morogh, where she'd tamed her first one at level 10. Right there, in that same little place, near the Gnome starting area, Heather paced around. Within moments, Lomelinda was hugging her old friend, vowing to never let her go again.
They may not have been "whim" tames as much as some here, but I am an obsessive list-maker and pet-planner, and these are pretty "on a whim" ones for someone like me.
Sorry for the length!
's Sewer Beast.
The ones who REALLY clicked, though, were Gosh-Haldir (who was the Large Loch Crocolisk at the time) and green Madexx.
