Casualties of Wotlk!

So with the supposed pre-Wrath patch dropping tomorrow, if all rumors prove true, we're having massive changes to pets, what with being hunters and all. Well, Aidnan doesn't, but I do. (You know, he's a Rogue.) So at any rate I have 3 pets, Onyx, Sapphire, and Emerald. Now I have one pet, being Sapphire. First, I did this because nostalgia has it's place but when you get right down to it I don't need 3 out of my 5 possible pets to be cats just because they're pretty. Granted, I think ultimately I'll go back and retame Emerald, and replace Sapphire. And Onyx is all good and fine but frankly a see-through kitty that doesn't seem to grow as you do and seems dainty and small and I feel like less of a dwarf playing with her. 

Which brings us to what I want now. So many choices! I'll have Hozzer within an hour. I've wanted a bear for years, since 2004. I had a bear when I began playing, but being a Huntard (yes, I used the actual term) I ended-up giving him up going for any old pet each zone I zoned into. And by 50 I was all over the place with pets with no Loyalty and it took all of 2005 to settle down and stick to a pet. Heh. (That was my big pet learning year.)

I'm considering a crow. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. Granting that they're ferocity pets and so are cats, it seems redundant, despite the attack power nerf they have. 

I was considering going and getting King Mosh. But I've always disliked dinosaurs. Heh. And given that he is also a ferocity pet again with the redundancy. So it comes down to which does more damage, the special ability of Moshy, or Kitty, and Kitty cuts past armor with its bleed, so it might just be Kitty.

If I switch out of Beast Mastery (which is what I like the most) I may go for a snowy wolf. 

I'm definitely getting a Whooly Rhino. Stampede just seems like entirely too much fun not to have.  Nuff said.

For future reference, when I hit 76, I will be getting this beautiful creature here. There's no question. I'm all over that skin like fuzzy on a snowshoe bunny. 

I haven't really looked at cunning pets like the bald eagle. But it does sort-of make me feel a little patriotic. 

So, let's recap. I'm going to try out two ferocity, one tenacity, one exotic, and 1 cunning pet, and as I sift through the data I get out of them I am going to try to narrow it down to 1 or 2 pets to level with come Wrath of the Lich King. And I'm almost 99% positive its going to be a bear.

Now, what's funny is I'm sitting here in the other window in agony over what spec my cat should be for the day. It's so silly.