Note: This guide is long since outdated. For an updated, very complete, and not to mention just plain awesome guide, go to WarcraftPets.

Vanity mini-pets is one of those little things that make World of Warcraft worth playing. There’s a surprising number of different pets available, and I want to collect them all. I can’t actually get all of them, but at least I can document them—so pet collectors like myself can get as many as possible.

Collector’s Edition only

Pet	Source
Mini Diablo	Collector’s Edition
Panda Cub	Collector’s Edition
Zergling	Collector’s Edition

If you, like me, didn’t get your grubby little hands on the Collector’s Edition of World of Warcraft, you’re out of luck. These aren’t available any other way.

BlizzCon attendees only

What’s round and rainbow-colored, with big eyes, fingers, and toes, and goes, “Grrrrmalrrrrgrrahhhh”? Your very own baby murloc pet, that’s what!

Pet	Source
Murky	BlizzCon souvenir gift card

Murky is the cutest little mini-murloc you’ll ever lay your eyes upon, and you can only get him if you bought a ticket to BlizzCon. Yes, you may cry along with me.

There is now a second murloc, Gurky, available. I would appreciate information on how to obtain this pet.

Murky and Gurky will sing and dance for you, with a top hat and cane, at random when idle.

Children’s Week in-game event

Pet	Source	Faction
Human Orphan	Quest	Alliance
Orc Orphan	Quest	Horde

The orphans aren’t really pets as such, they are little quest NPCs you carry around with you. Only available from the orphanages in Stormwind and Orgrimmar during the Children’s Week event in the spring. The whistle used to summon the orphan expires after two days of game time, but if you finish the quest series and bring the orphan back to the orphanage, you get to choose between 3 permanent pets (or 5 gold, but if you pick that reward, why are you reading a pet guide in the first place?):

Pet	Source
Mr. Wiggles the pig	Alliance quest, Horde quest
Speedy the turtle	Alliance quest, Horde quest
Whiskers the rat	Alliance quest, Horde quest

Winter’s Veil in-game event

Pet	Source
Father Winter’s Helper	Winter’s Veil Gift
Winter’s Little Helper	Winter’s Veil Gift
Tiny Snowman	Winter’s Veil Gift
Winter Reindeer	Winter’s Veil Gift

These mini-pets only drop from the gifts under the tree in Ironforge and Orgrimmar during the Winter’s Veil event around christmas. Summoning the pets requires a Snowball.

Winter’s Little Helper is a tiny little gnome dressed in a santa-like outfit. That should make Karolek happy.

The Tiny Snowman, well, is a snowman. It doesn’t come after you when take it out, but it will dance with you if you target it and do a /dance.

Cats

Pet	Source	Faction
Black Tabby	Drop	Horde
Bombay	Vendor	Alliance
Cornish Rex	Vendor	Alliance
Orange Tabby	Vendor	Alliance
Siamese	Drop
Silver Tabby	Vendor	Alliance
White Kitten	Vendor	Alliance

Most cats can be bought from the crazy cat lady in Elwynn forest. The White Kitten is sold in limited supplies from a little boy wandering about Stormwind. Only the Black Tabby is not easily available to Alliance, as it only drops from mobs friendly to them.

Chickens

Pet	Source	Faction
Ancona Chicken	Vendor
Mechanical Chicken	Quest
Prairie Chicken	Quest	Alliance

Getting the Mechanical Chicken requires completing the three OOX-* quests. When finished with all three, Oglethorpe Obnoticus in Booty Bay will offer you a chicken.

The quest for the Prairie Chicken is probably the funniest quest in the entire game—and a pretty obscure one, so you won’t see too many of those around. Note that Horde can get the Prairie Chicken with the help of an Alliance character: The Alliance character has to do the quest, and get the chicken to lay the egg. The Horde character can then pick up the egg and get their very own Prairie Chicken.

Dragons

Pet	Source	Faction
Crimson Whelpling	Drop
Dark Whelpling	Drop
Emerald Whelpling	Drop
Sprite Darter Hatchling	Quest	Alliance

With the exception of the Sprite Darter Hatchling, dragons are a bitch to get. Random drops with a drop chance of less than a percent—be ready to kill dragons for days on end, or pay a mount’s worth in gold at the auction house for one.

Frogs/toads

Pet	Source	Faction
Jubling	Quest
Tree Frog	Vendor
Wood Frog	Vendor
Lifelike Toad	Engineering

Be sure to get the Tree Frog and Wood Frog from the little running orc boy while the Darkmoon Faire is in town. The Wood Frog is in limited supply, so you’ll need a bit of luck and/or good timing to get it.

The quest for the Jubling is almost as hilarious as the quest for the Prarie Chicken, but requires a trip to Blackrock Depths before you can even start it. But, the Jubling is darn cute, and it drinks dark iron ale. You just don’t find pets like that every day.

Owls

Pet	Source	Faction
Hawk Owl	Vendor	Alliance
Great Horned Owl	Vendor	Alliance

Both owls are sold by Shylenai the owl trainer near the eastern entrance of Darnassus.

Parrots

Pet	Source	Faction
Blood Parrot	Quest
Cockatiel	Vendor
Green Wing Macaw	Drop
Hyacinth Macaw	Drop
Senegal	Vendor

Getting the Blood Parrot requires dumping your reputation with Booty Bay and getting friendly with the Bloodsail Buccaneers – meaning that the Blood Parrot is one of the rarest pets in the game. Then again, the Hyacinth Macaw only drops from Bloodsail Buccaneers, so with luck you’ll have two new pets by the time you’re friends with Booty Bay again…

Snakes

Pet	Source	Faction
Crimson Snake	Vendor	Horde
Black Kingsnake	Vendor	Horde
Brown Snake	Vendor	Horde

All snakes are bought from Xan’tish the snake vendor in the Valley of Spirits in Orgrimmar.

Other

Pet	Source	Faction
Lil’ Smokey	Gnomish Engineering
Pet Bombling	Goblin Engineering
Tranquil Mechanical Yeti	Engineering

The schematics for Lil’ Smokey and the Pet Bombling are only available by renewing your gnomish or goblin engineering membership. The pets are bind on pickup, so only specialized engineers can have one.

To get the schematics for the Tranquil Mechanical Yeti, you have to complete the Are We There, Yeti quest chain, be at least level 55 and have at least 250 skill points in Engineering. Umi Rumplesnicker will then offer to teach you.

Pet	Source	Faction
Smolderweb Hatchling	Quest
Worg Pup	Quest

The quests for the Smolderweb Hatchling and the Worg Pup are both started by Kibler, and both take place in high-level instances. Sorry, but you’re not getting these until you’re close to level 60.

Pet	Source	Faction
Cockroach	Vendor	Horde
Mechanical Squirrel	Engineering
Prairie Dog	Vendor	Horde
Snowshoe Rabbit	Vendor	Alliance
Disgusting Oozeling	Drop

The Disgusting Oozeling is a rare drop from high-level oozes around the world. It looks like, well, a gob of snot, and has a “disgusting aura” that gives you -15 defense and -15 fire resistance. Like the jubling, the oozeling drinks dark iron ale.