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When you are leveling a tenacity pet (tank) is a good idea, or possibility a cunning pet, which has a nice feature to give mana back to the hunter. Bears will make good leveling pets. When running instances or with groups where you do not need your pet to tank, take a high dps pet like a raptor.Currently…High damage pets – cats, ravagers and raptors.High armor, tanking pets – unfortunately the tanking pets suffer from not being able to learn focus skills like claw, movement enhancers like dash, or in some cases like bears having no special skills. Gorillas probably make best current tanks, bears are popular and perfectly good at most levels.Good all rounders – boars. Wolves are popular though have some weakness, but will get improves in WOTLK.