Anyone else this strict on which pets to keep?

[Sodequis]

I have plenty of stable room on both my hunters. I love to tame unique pets and challenging ones, but I refuse to keep a pet that every hunter I see seems to be running around with or ones that have skins that are just used on a lot of npc's in the game. I also dislike all the new spiders from the last patch. Taming was entertaining, but ultimately abandoned each one. Nothing unique or rare about a spider every hunter in orgrimmar seems to have.

I've tamed basically all the pets that have persistent buffs after death(abandon/revive) and stabled most of those. The normal lineup I run with are the most uniquely used skins I could find for each type of pet based on typical buffs needed for group. I wish I was playing my hunter back in the time of the hydra and ooze, but unfortunately I was elbows deep in some druid action at the time. I check this site every other day mostly for news of something new discovered(had a fiery raptor/tallstrider for a few days too) or maybe someone noticing a pet gone on the ptr, so I can tame it before patch day.

On a side note. I was also very upset when they changed the Death ravager skin and made it easier to get on azuremyst. As well as nerfed the pet forcing anyone who had it to lose that one. My uncle and I made draenie warriors on our server(pve at the time) on each others account just to open the cage and tame that guy. Could honestly say I rarely seen another horde with that pet.

[GormanGhaste]

I just pick pets whose appearance I like. Don't really care how common they are in the wild or as tamed pets.

[Tufak]

I have one hunter (out of my many) that has two rules when he tames a pet.

1.) It must be a rare spawn.

2.) It must have a unique skin.

So every pet he tames is one that the only way to get that skin is to tame that particular pet. Even pets that have more than one rare with the skin (there are gorillas and worms like this) are off his list.

He does have one exception. He came upon Humar the Pridelord and tamed him, despite Pitch (easily accessible mob in Sholazar) having the same skin.

[Kurasu]

I'm definitely not strict about it. I tame what pets entrance me. A lot of the time, I admit that it's a rare tame, or a challenge tame. But not always. if it's cool, I'm happy to tame it. Heck, I've even released rares I wasn't clicking with (Terrorpene) for a more common skin that I was (Mudrock Spikeshell: the *REAL* Panzer).

There's no right or wrong way to be a hunter. Just personal ways!

[Sukurachi]

I just pick pets whose appearance I like. Don't really care how common they are in the wild or as tamed pets.

Seconded.

I see a pet I relate to, I tame it. Period.

I have some rares.. because I found them attractive.

I HAD some rares that I released because the noises they made got on my very last nerve. Despite liking their look (birds are like that for me) the annoyance of the sound effects was too much.

And then there's my Shale Spiders, which I NEVER thought I'd click with, and ended up being totally in love with. Any hunter toon I have who's level appropriate has a Shale Spider. Strange. And I'm a dog person. But rarely use the dogs I have.

[CrystalKitten]

Same as most others. If I like a pet, I'll use it no matter how many other people do or don't have it. Even if a pet is underused or "rare" on your server.. maybe it's one of the most common on another server. I play to have the pets I like, not to stand out.

I'm trying to experiment with themes now, so I'll be a LITTLE more selective, but as long as the pet fits my desired theme, I won't put any other restrictions on it. I might even make exceptions (example, I'm gonna find some regular wolf model that fits my theme best, though none really do, just cause I'm really not if I'll be able to put up with the NR worg model for the colour changer half of my goblin's theme...), but even so, that, in the end, comes down to what I personally like, or don't like.

[Mozag]

My only rule is to never tame the exact same skin of a certain model on another hunter. I believe the only one I had shared for a while was a red Madexx as it was the only one that ever showed up. But it bothered me so much having it on three hunters, eventually I just dumped two of them.

[Sukurachi]

LOL
I actually like dual-boxing identical twins.
I almost uniquely play Blood Elves, and when I pair up two hunters, they are generally wearing the exact same gear, and more likely than not, also running with the same pet.

But at least they all have unique names.

[peanutbuttercup]

My only rule is to never tame the exact same skin of a certain model on another hunter. I believe the only one I had shared for a while was a red Madexx as it was the only one that ever showed up. But it bothered me so much having it on three hunters, eventually I just dumped two of them.

Oh same here. I figure the entire point of having more than one hunter was so that I could pick up as many of my favorite models as I could. So it feels like I'm wasting space having duplicate skins, plus the pets just don't feel the same on different characters. What I love alongside one toon just doesn't click with another.

[Sukurachi]

well, two of my hunters have Ghostcrawler, and I dual-box them, their pets are named Bouillabaise and Paella (yes, I know erroneous spelling of the french dish, but there's a number of letters limit).

[GormanGhaste]

I have different pet themes for each of my hunters. Usually that leads to different pets, but sometimes a skin will fit with more than one of my hunters. Favorite pets are never a wasted space!

[Sarantha]

For me, it used to be "MUST GET RARES" now its "get pets I like" and I seem to bond with them much better. I still have a lot of spirit beasts and lava spiders, but I LIKE them, so I don't feel bad and I'm not bothered that everyone and their brother has them. I go out of my way to help other hunters actually tame these pets, so other people having them does not bother me. I adore Madexx in any form, but just don't have the stable room to keep all his various colors. I have kept blue (obviously. It will never leave me) and green. I also adore all the lava spiders, but can't keep them all. Skitterflame is the only one I don't have. I like Anthriss, despite that she has a very common skin, and Kirix is the god of all my lava spiders. Deth and Solix are cool too. I really want to get rid of a lava spider, but I love their models too much. I also have Ned, the Lone Hunter, a rather normal looking ghostly wolf from the Plaguelands (who just happens to have a sword in his head). Right now, I am in love with my two windserpent pets even though anyone can tame their models.

[Mozag]

I have different pet themes for each of my hunters. Usually that leads to different pets, but sometimes a skin will fit with more than one of my hunters. Favorite pets are never a wasted space!

Hah, yes. I have this too. All my hunters have a theme and sometimes my OCD habit of NOT HAVING THE SAME PET ON MORE THAN ONE HUNTER has caused me to spend hours pondering on stable make ups. As an example, I have a hunter who has a Victorian Gothic theme, so for her I tend to go for gloomy dark (and sometimes green) pets. But then, my other hunter has a sort of Lolita feminine Gothic theme and her pets, while usually purple, red or black occasionally overlap with the Victorian Gothic theme. I have spent many hours juggling these two. But, at the end of the day, I rather enjoy the planning of stables. Probably why I'm so addicted to making new hunters.

[Lupis]

I'm very strict with pets, but not in that way. If I don't have a strong bond to a pet, it's out. Ditched most of my rares because of that. I have 13 pets and honestly, I might drop that number to 11. Maybe even 10.
Admittedly, I prefer if it's not a pet that every other hunter is running around with, but super common skins? Those are great.
I also tend to go for the rare spawns of those commons, if only because I find them more fun to look for. xD

[Monica Gems]

The rares I have (save the spirit beasts) were tamed because I had NO other option for the skin; I like green pets... King Krush, Jadefang, and The Evalcharr all say hi!