I have loved vanity pets from the onset of WoW, but due to the limitations of bank space, and each pet taking up a slot, I have never kept many on each character. The implementation of the pet "book" to store vanity pets was the excuse I had been waiting for to begin collecting. And once I begin collecting something, well, I don't stop until my collection is complete no matter what it takes! Had it not been for the achievement, I probably would have been able to limit myself to the cutest and rarest pets, but my desire to reach the 50 pet mark for Stinker the skunk meant I had to compromise a bit, adding snakes, cockroaches, and chickens to my little family of dragon whelplings, cats, and collector's edition pets.
It took me the better part of a week's worth of dedicated farming to land myself a firefly vanity pet. After mercilessly slaying over 1,400 little digital bugs with a 1/1000 random drop rate, I still never saw a single pet drop. Instead two seperate and very generous guild mates, upon hearing my nightly firefly count rise without any luck both managed to net their own captured fireflies in record time, several hundred kills at most! And both generously donated their prizes to my cause, which was really very sweet! I really do love my pets, and the fireflies are one of the cutest pets out there (not to mention that they are one of the geekiest as well, with the adorable Firefly reference "still flying").
So while I continue to doubt my random number generator luck, I have no doubts that I know some of the sweetest and most thoughtful guys out there! Thanks Khygar and Bhaird! Since I am writing this after the fact, I should mention that Bhaird also donated a black tabby cat to my menagerie. Kitty! I hope to net a few fireflies as I level up my alts in the Outlands, so that I can regift them to the generous guys who insisted I take these cute bugs off their hands. Let the counting recommence!
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