This is the starter pet, a pretty black mastiff. I named him after the nickname for my dog but I'm just not really feeling the whole transfering rl pet names to in game pet names. I've tried it and it never clicked so am done with that. I did however name my toon after my dog. My oldest dog is 13 and her name is Lila. My toons name is Lyalla (LIE-uh-la) so it sounds almost the same.

This dog scared the crap out of me when I turned a corner and he barked. I jumped lol! I knew he had to be my pet. Due to there being no stablemasters in the Worgen starting area I had to release the starter pet but my new guy is a color changing mastiff so the original pet lives on! I named him Troubador as it's a very romantic and noble name.


I ended up in Darkshore so immediately stabled Troubador and went to tame Shadowclaw. I'm not sure how "rare" this rare is since he's been up every single time I've been in the area but either way he's now my little baby hunter pet. I never really noticed on my first hunter how tiny pets are at the lower lvl's. I named him Rian since it means "little King". He's so tiny and cute looking, lol.


And of course I just had to have a bear. It was a toss up between the black bear and the grey bear but I finally settled on black. Since I've never played alliance, between figuring out how to get to Loch Modan, hoofing it on foot, taking the wrong boat, etc etc, it took foreeever to get to this this guy. But when I saw him he was off in the woods all by himself and I knew that was my bear. I named him Oenomaus after the Spartacus series (best show ever!!). Again, hes so cute and tiny and adorable at this level.


I'm really enjoying this new twist to the game. I thought I'd never play Alliance but am really looking forward to my adventures on the dark side!
