An Interesting Dire Beast...

[Equeon]

So here I was, doing dailies in the Dread Wastes.
A Dreadspinner attacks me, and I call a beast to my aid. Expecting the normal scorpion or turtle, I turn to see...

a snail?
Wait, a snail? That can't be right.

But it was.


I've looked everywhere and haven't this finding reported before, so I just had to share it! I laughed so much at its arrival that I only thought to grab a screenshot a few seconds before it disappeared.

UPDATE: We are now searching for the rare Dire Beast of every zone!
*Dread Wastes - Snail
*Krasarang Wilds - Purple Spider
*Townlong Steppes - Cricket
*Kun-Lai Summit
*Jade Forest
*Valley of the Four Winds
*Vale of Eternal Blossoms
*Eastern Kingdoms - Prairie Dog
*Kalimdor
*Northrend - Penguin
*Outland
*Instances - Rabbit

[Falcon]

This happened to me once not too long ago as well, made me do a double-take, but I didn't think to snap a screenshot because I was too busy sitting there thinking "Whiskey... Tango... Foxtrot...". I'm honestly glad to see that I'm not the only one who's had this happen and that I'm not nuts.

[Kalliope]

Awww, such a cutie!

[Eternallylostx]

D'awwww

[Rarehunter1]

Yup, happened to me once too. Seems very rare, but very awesome when it does pop.

In fact, when I first encountered mine, I got very excited because in Cataclysm, I had always thought those snails on the ashenvale coast would make awesome pets. So I flew down there to check um out again, but alas... They had all been turned from beasts, to battle pets when Mists hit... sad day.

[Zhinru]

Dire Beast has that occasional chance to summon a critter. A rabbit, a cricket, etc. I haven't seen it happen in Dread Wastes yet, so I wouldn't know it's snail there. Good find.

[pop]

that and beaver needs to be made into tamable families.

[Holgarr]

"...rawr."

[Equeon]

Update: I got a shiny purple spider in the Krasarang Wilds.



Hunters of Petopia! I urge you to try and find the "rare beast" of every zone!

We have left to check:

*Kun-Lai Summit
*Jade Forest
*Valley of the Four Winds
*Vale of Eternal Blossoms
*Eastern Kingdoms
*Kalimdor
*Northrend
*Outland
*Instances

[Rawr]

Am I the only one who has ever gotten P*Dawg? I feel I have asked this question before somewhere.........

[Zhinru]

I definitely remember the prairie dog from one of the continents. Also, Townlong Steppes critter is a cricket.

[Firstborn Dragon]

I got a rabbit in umm... I belive it was steam vaults. I know I was fighting a hydra. I just remeber thinking it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen, a tiny rabbit attacking this giant hydra.

Also have gotten a full sized warp stalker.

[Equeon]

Ok, no screenshots here, but I got a penguin in Northrend.

[Tsaikojen]

A unique summon on the Kun-Lai Summit is a tiger cub. Only summoned it once or I'd have a pic by now.