This morning i had what could have been the best taming spree that ever happened to me in 5 year of playtime, however it came with problems of some sort as it wasn't really "intended".
After taming Deth'tilac during the first days of 4.2 i was pretty much set with my stables, having 25 full slots filled with pets which i like (many of them being rare aswell!)and every one of them belonging to a different family in order to have a wide array of different abilities which is a thing i love to have.
However i found myself logging in pretty early this morning and decided it was worth a try to make a rarespawn tour just in case.
I went to Vashj'ir and while Ghostcrawler (which i'm not interested in but was curious to see him in the wild) wasn't up i stumbled across nonetheless than Poseidus himself and menaged to get a nice water mount for me from him (and an enchant bracer:intellect scroll ).
Happy and thrilled as i was i went on to Northrend to look for the timelost protodrake which sadly wasn't up, since i had to wait some minutes for my heartstone i continued to look around just to see wha ti could find.
As i flew down in Zul'Drak i saw Gondria, i never liked her at all so i just left her there since no other hunter was around hoping she may find a good master soon.
Next stop was grizzly hills and...Arcturis was there which i wasn't really expecting to see because i had never saw him in the wild.
I always liked Arcturis since his model was datamined for the first time but since my Spirit Beast slot always belonged to Loque i never got to tame him, i tried to resist, looked if there were any hunter around interested in him but noone was available.
i decided to free a common pet which i can easily get again and just tame the ghostly bear which i always wanted.

However i didn't stop there, i went to Uldum to see if a there was some interesting coloured Madexx and i found that the green one was up (which is the colour of the Madexx i own) so i just /waved at him and went to Hiyal where...i found and tamed Ban'thalos which is probably my favourite spirit beast just after Loque.

I decided it was worth a shot to just check the Twilight Higlands just in case to see if Karoma was up (another beast which i never saw in the wild while i always happen to stumble in Sambas for some reason) and...well...there she was, all alone waiting for someone.
And i ended up taming her aswell >.<

I named my Ban'thalos "Kaepora", Karoma is now "Romulus" like an old wolf i had for a short time (yes, i'll pretend my Karoma is actually a boy) while Arcturis is still unnamed, i'd like to call him "Okku" but if i decide to "merge" him with my bear (old grizzlegut) to make some space in the stable i'll pass his name to him and call him Arthur.
I had to give up on my Spore Bat, Fox and Dog to tame them because even if i liked them alot i never use them really and anyway i can get them again quite easily if i want, however i'll be honest and say that i quite "miss them".
I always liked these spirit beasts (especially Ban'thalos which i saw being mauled to death by people too many times) but i do feel myself a bit "guilty" since i almost never play as BM nowadays and four spirit beasts really take up alot of space in my already crowded stable.
What should i do? I really like them but i'll admit that i do "miss" my old "common" pets which had their own unique "role" while i already had my good old Figaro (Loque) for years who did the Spirit Beast job for me.
I really want to keep them since i really like these models but i umm...i don't know why all of a sudden i feel like the pets i gave up for them mattered more than i expected them to even if they are just "ready to be tamed" if i ever need them again unlike these newcomers.
It's a strange feeling =/