The Achievement Kennel Club is your official weekly, obsessive-compulsive, minipet showcase. Brought to you by Aeolyn and Papa Hummel's Old-Fashioned Pet Biscuits. Seeing as how 3.3.3 should be released before I manage to get another update posted, we'll finally get to craft our Pet Bombling and Lil' Smoky that I mentioned a couple weeks back. Now the PTR has revealed some cool new toys at the Jepetto Joybuzz shop in Dalaran. Among them, the latest companion pet; the Blue Clockwork Rocket Bot. Yours for the low, low price of 50 gold. Its about flippin' time that Joybuzz stepped into the mini-pet business. This pet is simply a recolor of the 2007 Winter Veil gift. The original rocket bot was enjoyed by many because it would attack any other rocket bots it saw. What with it being 2010 now you don't see this very often these days. So hopefully we'll see a brand new generation of these little guys assaulting one another in the streets for our amusement. While not actually a companion pet, its noteworthy that Joybuzz is also going to be selling a recolor of the 2008 gift; the Crashin' Thrashin' Racer. You can drive these little rocket cars around and ram them into others to blow them up. One of my friends and I regularly have Crashin' Thrashin' Racer duels while going over strat recaps for new raiders in ICC. I look forward to more players being able to get in on ...

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The Achievement Kennel Club is your official weekly, obsessive-compulsive, minipet showcase. Brought to you by Aeolyn and Papa Hummel's Old-Fashioned Pet Biscuits. Finally! 3.3.3 is here (and they retextured my Shattered Hand Warhound! Seriously.) and with it my past few weeks worth of pet updates are available to us all. Pet Bombling, Lil' Smoky, Blue Clockwork Rocketbot. If you haven't caught 'em all already then this is your reminder. I've tracked mine down and they're sooooo flippin' cool. Although I wish both versions of the rocket bot didn't show up with the exact same name in the pet tab. Kind of irks me. But enough about them! Earlier in the week I downloaded a cute little pirate RTS game on the PS3 called Age of Booty (Hehe. Booty.) and it put me in kind of a piratey mood so this week's pet is the holy grail of pets you have to slaughter a ton of lowbie mobs to see. The Hyacinth Macaw.

• What is it? A pain in the ass. It shares a model and tab icon with the much more common and easier to obtain Green Wing Macaw, Cockatiel, and Senegal. It also looks NOTHING LIKE THE REAL BIRD. ARRGGGgghhhhh...!!!
• How do I get one? The source of these birds would be the Bloodsail Pirates in the southern part of Stranglethorn Vale. The drop rate off the pirates is considered by some to be about 1 in 5000 and others insist ...

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The Achievement Kennel Club is your official weekly, obsessive-compulsive, minipet showcase. Brought to you by Aeolyn and Papa Hummel's Old-Fashioned Pet Biscuits. Before my usual rant I have to take a moment to explain the above picture. It isn't a very good picture of this week's pet; but it is very important to me. Its from the Wrath of the Lich King beta. And I initially posted it on my old FFXI blog as part of my departure from that game into WoW on a more full-time basis. It was around this timeframe that I happened to stumble upon the Firefly minipet. And having a cool new interface in which to "learn" the pets and put them in the new boxgrid triggered the obsessive-compulsive collection instinct that I put in my weekly headline. I wanted to get enough pets to fill up the grid. And then I did and it extended to page two. So, of course, I'd have to repeat the process. Flash forward to now and I'm most of the way through page ten. Wheee! But the Firefly was the first rare pet that started it all and is, by extension, the reason I'm here and posting on WoW-Achievements.com today. But enough about me. Captured Firefly

• What is it? This looks -exactly- like the Bogflare Needlers in Zangarmarsh that it drops from. No other companion pet has this model.
• How do I get one? From the above-linked mobs. The drop chance ...

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So on the PTR right now (and perhaps on Live by the time this entry gets posted! /cross fingers) the Pet Bombling and Lil' Smoky have become a great deal more accessible to the average player. And for this week I'll be foregoing my usual format in favor of a bit of a history lesson since these little guys have been through so many changes over the course of the game. These two pets started out as a sort of badge of honor among Engineers. Not only did you have to be an Engineer to get one; but your specialization limited you to chasing after a single one of them (Smoky = Gnome style and Bomb = Goblin spec). Our hated friend, RNG, also had quite a hand in obtaining these guys, as you had a small chance to get the pet schematic you wanted each time you renewed your membership with your NPC engineering buddies. 3.1.0 hit and scrapped this idea, as well as the Goblin/Gnome spec requirement, in favor of just having the patterns to make these cool little guys drop in Gnomeregan. The pet bomb from the zone's boss, Mekgineer Thermaplugg, who pours bombs of the same model into the room as his primary fight mechanic. And Lil' Smoky was made to drop from...well, primarily the Arcane Nullifiers in the ...

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AKC: Take a bite out of crime!

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The Achievement Kennel Club is your official weekly, obsessive-compulsive, minipet showcase. Brought to you by Aeolyn and Papa Hummel's Old-Fashioned Pet Biscuits.

While the battle against Arthas reaches its climax and the fate of the world rests on the edge of oblivion, it becomes important that we take a step back and remember what really matters most in life: Non-combat pets. The Lich King's wrath will have to wait because today we face the blood-chilling ire of the Love is in the Air festival, a sickeningly cute holiday event that boasts two frighteningly not cute pets to add for your collection.

First we have the returning Peddlefeet who is a great deal easier to capture this year than he was previously. And secondly we have a lovable slimeball, all new for the 2010 season! Toxic Wasteling. Because nothing says "I love you" like a carnivorous, faceless, radioactive horror.
The wasteling is the newer, flashier, and more complex of the two holiday pets. So lets get right into the thick of things.

Toxic Wasteling

• What is it? The Toxic Wasteling is an ooze minipet that shares a model with the Disgusting Oozeling (although they thankfully have completely different icons in your pet tab). The wasteling is several shades lighter and brighter than its elder counterpart, and in my opinion its bubbles are more clearly visible.
• How do I get one? This pet is a "Very Low" (3% - 14% says WoW Armory) drop chance reward from the Apothecary Hummel encounter ...

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What’s up everyone, this is Paranoia, for this week’s AKC I’m going to do a few more pets that take some extra time, and patience to acquire! We’re going to be looking at rare pets that drop in Dungeons and Raids!

Birds:
Phoenix Hatchling - Kael'thas Sunstrider (Magisters' Terrace)
Green Wing Macaw - Defias Pirate (The Deadmines)

Cats:
Siamese Cat - Cookie (The Deadmines)

Raptors:
Deviate Hatchling - Deviate Guardian, Deviate Ravager (Wailing Caverns)
Razzashi Hatchling - Razzashi Raptor (Zul'Gurub)

Seasonal:
Scorchling - Ahune (Slave Pens)
Sinister Squashling - Headless Horseman (Scarlet Monastery)

Best of luck to everyone getting these pets and I’ll see yall next time in AKC!

What’s up everyone, this is Paranoia, for this week’s AKC I’m going to do a pet that takes a bit more work to get, but in the end you even get some mounts with it!

The Nether Ray Fry is obtainable by reaching Exalted status with the Sha’tari Skyguard, which exalted status also gets you access to their mounts as well. You can find the Sha’tari Skyguard in Terokkar Forest, on the plateau south of Allerian Stronghold, and also another base in Blade's Edge Mountain just north of Ogri’la.

In order to get exalted with the Sha’tari Skyguard, you must complete all the daily quests, well, daily. Here’s a list of the daily quests to help you get exalted as fast as you can.

Daily Quests:
Fires Over Skettis (In Terokkar Forest) – 350 rep
Escape From Skettis (In Terokkar Forest) – 150 rep
Wrangle Some Aether Rays! (In Blade's Edge Mountains) – 350 rep
Bomb Them Again! (In Blade's Edge Mountains) - 500 Rep

Also killing mobs in Skettis will earn you rep, a few mobs can give rep all the way up to exalted!

Best of luck to everyone getting this pet and I’ll see yall next time in AKC!