A Long Overdue Stable Clearance

One of the things that first attracted me to playing a hunter was their ability to have and control pets. These pets (used to) have different pre-defined qualities (spec) that made them favourable for certain situations. For example, ferocity pets are for dealing damage. This has now been re-worked so that you can change your pets spec and therefore it's qualities.

Whilst hunters abilities and those of their pets have been worked on since I started playing (Feb 2012) one thing hasn't changed - the number of stable slots available. Hunter's can carry five pets with them and store up to twenty in the stable. Now, this is quite a few slots but if you're a bit of a hoarder like me it really isn't.

The three main pets I use.

I haven't tamed any new pets in Pandaria as a result of having no room for them. Despite his a number have caught my eye for example, Stompy (Petopia, Wowhead). Plus, more and more tameable pets are being uncovered in the Patch 5.2 PTR, from Direhorns and Devilsaurs to new spirit beasts.

So I've decided a stable clearance is in order. Whilst I'm not brave enough to just go and abandon them right now I will be black-listing some pets that will be the first to go as and when necessary. Below I'm going to share with you my collection of pets - their names (only those that I have regularly used are named), who they are (model, rare name etc.), any random info.
Pets I carry on me:

Gary	Uhk'loc	Gary is my tanking pet. I named him after Gary Gannon (the presenter of Gamebreaker TV's Legendary)
Kitty	Winna's Kitten	Kitty has been my main cat pet since I tamed her.
Susan	Solix	Used for PvP. Caught on my epic taming day (see below)
Cyril	Core Hound	Not used as often now as I changed from BM to SV spec.

Inactive:

Spirit Beasts

Cat (purple)	Gondria	I collected these as and when I found them using NpcScan / Silver Dragon. I got Ban'thalos on my epic taming day (see below).
Wolf	Karoma
Cat (blue)	Magria
Owl	Ban'thalos



Three pets that I don't use but would still like to keep.

Others - generally the pets below are on my black-list. I don't use them and it wouldn't bother me to get rid of the majority.

Chimaera	Chillwind Chimaera	I got this pet as I wanted to try out a chimaera and have only used it the once.
Ralf	Dragonmaw Lashtail	Nothing special, just a raptor.
Raptor	Takk the Leaper	Takk the leaper. Taming this guy was a pain as he was leaping all over the place. Safe for now.
Scorpid	Black	Two versions of Madexx - black and green (I think). As I'd like to get all the different versions of Madexx these are currently safe.
Scorpid	Green
Spider	Anthriss	Caught on my epic taming day. Safe for now.
Wolfgang	White	Random white wolf.
MurielMoth	Young Moth	The pet my hunter started with. Safe for now.
Cat	White Striped
Scorpius	Clack the Reaver	I quite like this scorpid. Safe for now.
Razza	Green	Think this is the Ravasaur Matriarch.
CrankyCroc	Mahamba
Toxictusks	Dreadtusk	Love this guy! Safe for now.
Rusty	Ironjaw
Dog	Blue	Blue runed demon dog.
Lancelot	Sian-Rotam	Lancelot was my first cat pet. I replaced him with Kitty as my GM used/uses the same model. Safe for now.

Producing this spreadsheet of the pets I have has really helped me to identify which pets I want to keep and which I'm not too bothered about. It also reminded me about my epic taming day in which I tamed Ban'thalos, Solix and Anthriss witihn 30minutes. I died a number of times and had to repair twice but I got them all in the end.