A pet is a non-combat NPC loyal to a player that generally requires a certain level in Summoning to own. Typically, a player must raise a pet to maturity by having it follow them. Many pets can also be fed and interacted with. Most pets do not serve a purpose other than decoration, however, some pets are used in quests and have other additional benefits.
A player may only have one pet, familiar, or NPC (e.g. Zanik, or the Zanaris choir) following them at one time. Players can manage pets while active through the familiar interface, by using food on them, by left-clicking, and with direct interaction by right-clicking.
Pets that exist as objects may be stored in the bank or inventory, and follow the player when dropped. Other pets are automatically stored in the Hero interface and can be called to follow the player at any time. Players can store up to 25 pets in the Menagerie of a player-owned house (with the highest-level pet houses). Unlike familiars, pets may be brought into Summoning-free zones.
A baby blue dragon, available with level 99 Summoning
Many pets require an appropriate Summoning level to be obtained, raised, and kept. With some exceptions, such as god birds for protection in the God Wars Dungeon, these pets have no real use other than decoration, or as a way to show off a player's Summoning level.
Caring for pets
When a pet is first obtained, it is in its lowest growth stage and grows as it follows the player, with the exception of several pets which only have one growth stage such as the Broav.
A player can monitor a pet's growth and hunger in the Summoning menu. Younger pets become hungrier faster than their adult counterparts, but the frequency of feeding does not affect a pet's growth rate.
Unlike other pets, kittens must be stroked and fed regularly or they run away. Once they reach adult stage, they no longer need to be fed.
At 100% growth, the pet matures into its next form. Pets can have up to three growth stages. Legendary pets obtained from Solomon's General Store can be interacted with and can be fed different types of food that can also be obtained from the store, which speeds up their growth significantly.
Pets that hatch from eggs need to be incubated before they hatch, which requires them to be placed in an egg incubator found in the Pet shops in Taverley and Yanille. Players receive a chat box notification when the egg has hatched. Any pet hatched in an incubator remains there until the player chooses to retrieve it. Pet shop owners are also the only NPCs that sell specific food for pets.
A player may speak with a pet once they are 10 or more Summoning levels above the required Summoning level to obtain that pet. Communication with pets above the level of 90 is possible, with the exception of the Baby dragon, which cannot be understood regardless of how high the player boosts their Summoning level. The Monkey can be spoken to if the player wears the Monkeyspeak amulet from Monkey Madness, and the TzRek-Jad is naturally capable of speech. Players with 99 summoning can communicate with a Chameleon after using the cape's right click "boost" option to temporarily achieve level 100 summoning.
Pets that are stored in the 'Hero' interface function differently from other pets. These are separated into five categories: Follower, Legendary, Companion, Boss, and Skilling. These do not need any feeding, although legendary pets can be given treats to make them grow more quickly.
Object pets
These pets exist as objects. When dropped, they follow the player. If a player dies while their pet is following them, it disappears and the player has to find a new one.
Summoning
These pets require a specific Summoning level to obtain, as well as other requirements.
| Requirements | Stages | Pet | Food | Obtained |
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Bulldog | Raw meat and Bones | Purchased from pet shop | 3 |
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Dalmatian | ||||
 - 
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Greyhound | ||||
 - 
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Labrador | ||||
 - 
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Sheepdog | ||||
 - 
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Terrier | ||||
4 , 5 
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Creeping hand | Leather gloves | Soul Wars | 1 |
| 4 , 25
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Minitrice | Limpwurt root | ||
| 4 , 40
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Baby basilisk | Eye of newt | ||
| 4 , 70
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Baby kurask | Bones | ||
| 4 , 85
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Abyssal minion | Ashes | ||
| 4 , Rune Mechanics
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Rune guardian | Revitalisation near a Runecrafting altar | Quest reward | 14 |
10 , 27 
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Gecko | Flies and beetle bits | Caught | 4 |
| 10 , 48 , As a First Resort
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 - 
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Platypus | Raw fish, Ground fishing bait as a baby, Fishing bait as adult | Caught (quest reward) | 3 |
| 14 , Bringing Home the Bacon
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Pig | Wheat, Onions | Quest reward | 3 |
| 23 , While Guthix Sleeps
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Broav | Mort Myre Fungus | Caught (quest reward) | 1 |
| 30
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Penguin | Raw fish | Hatched (Zoo keeper) | 3 |
| 37 , Fairytale III
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Tooth creature | Bucket of milk or Chocolatey milk | Bought for several teeth after quest. Free afterwards. | 1 |
| 40 , 32 , Pirate Pete subquest RFD
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Giant crab | Raw fish | Traded for a crunchy claw token | 5 |
| 50
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 - 
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Raven | Ground fishing bait as a chick, fishing bait as adult | Hatched (Nest) | 6 |
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60 |
 - 
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Squirrel | Nuts | Caught | 5 |
| 70
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Guthix raptor | Ground fishing bait as a chick, fishing bait as adult | Hatched (Nest) | 1 |
 -  - 
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Saradomin owl | ||||
 -  - 
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Zamorak hawk | ||||
| 71 , Rocking Out
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Ex-ex-parrot | Rock fragments | Revive an ex-parrot obtained from 50 Ships Mufassah | 1 |
| 72 , 51 , In Pyre Need
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Phoenix eggling (cute) | Ashes | Hatched (Phoenix Lair Distractions and Diversions) | 1 |
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Phoenix eggling (mean) | ||||
| 75
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Hermit crab | Raw fish | Found during Prifddinas Waterfall Fishing | 1 |
| 80 , 27
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Raccoon | Raw meat and fish | Caught | 3 |
80 , 80 
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Sneakerpeeper spawn | Eye of newt | Bought for 85,000 Dungeoneering Tokens | 1 |
| 85
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Vulture | Ground fishing bait as a chick, fishing bait as adult | Hatched (Vulture drop) | 6 |
| 90
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Chameleon | Flies | Hatched (found) | 10 |
| 95 , 27
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Monkey | Bananas | Caught in Karamja | 10 |
| 99
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Baby dragon | Vast amounts of raw meat, fish and chicken | Hatched (Chromatic Dragon drop) | 4 |
| 99 , 99
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TzRek-Jad | Nothing | Soul wars | 1 |
Non-summoning
These pets do not have Summoning requirements and instead have other requirements.
Interface pets
These pets do not exist as objects. Instead, they are accessed through the 'Pets' tab in the Customisation interface.
Boss pets
Boss pets are generally pets obtained by fighting or achievements that have to do with bosses. Most are drops that unlock the pet, but some, such as the Mega ducklings and the Barrows Bobbleheads have different methods.
Skilling Pets
| Icon | Name | Unlock Item | Skill |
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Dojo Mojo | Dojo Mojo pet | Agility |
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Baby Yaga's House | Baby Yaga's House pet | Construction |
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Ramsay | Ramsay pet | Cooking |
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Gemi | Gemi pet | Crafting |
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Willow (pet) | Willow pet | Divination |
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Gordie | Gordie pet | Dungeoneering |
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Brains | Brains pet | Farming |
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Bernie | Bernie pet | Firemaking |
| File:Bubbles (pet) icon.png | Bubbles | Bubbles pet | Fishing |
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Flo | Flo pet | Fletching |
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Herbert | Herbert pet | Herblore |
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Ace | Ace pet | Hunter |
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Malcolm | Malcolm pet | Invention |
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Rocky | Rocky pet | Mining |
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Rue | Rue pet | Runecrafting |
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Crabbe | Crabbe pet | Slayer |
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Smithy | Smithy pet | Smithing |
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Ralph | Ralph pet | Thieving |
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Woody | Woody pet | Woodcutting |
Quest and Reward Pets
Event/Holiday pets
| Icon | Name | Source | Requirements |
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Buddy | Christmas presents and Big Christmas presents | |
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White royal rhino | Rhino Awareness | |
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Black royal rhino | ||
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Jadinko | 2015 Easter event | |
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Cheeky Monkey | Runescape Road Trip | |
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Fluffie | Complete all of the 2015 RuneScape Road Trip tasks | |
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Tiny White Knight | Unlocked from a supply cache | |
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Tiny Black Knight | Unlocked from a supply cache | |
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Sockroth | 20 Meg's cases | |
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Piggles | Buy any 2014 premium Membership package | N/A |
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Commander Porkins | Buy 2014 Silver or Gold premium Membership package | N/A |
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Lava hawk | Buy 2015 Gold premium Membership package | N/A |
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Kirin | Buy any 2015 premium Membership package using PayPal | N/A |
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Jaguar cub | Big Cats Sanctuary | 9 points |
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Tiger cub | 9 points | |
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Lion cub | 1 bond | |
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Snow leopard cub | 5 bonds | |
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RuneFest dragonling | Attend RuneFest 2015 | N/A |
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Postie Pete (pet) | Buy 2016 Gold premium Membership package | N/A |
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Crystal peacock | Redeemed a membership card in August 2016 or were a Premier Club member | |
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Chronicle, Book of legends | Answer 14 questions from the Gorajo hoardstalker. | |
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RuneFest Foo Lion | Could be obtained from Diango or Ianto by entering the redeem code RFLiveStream2016 | |
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RuneFest Honourable Foo Lion | Was given to atendees of RuneFest 2016. | |
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Sandra | Unlocked from a starfish follower pet token | |
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Winston | Unlocked from a prize token | |
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Phoebe | Unlocked from a Phoebe pet token | |
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Gillbert | Unlocked from a Gillbert pet token | |
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Gus | Unlocked from a pufferfish follower pet token | |
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Coraline | Unlocked from a seahorse follower pet token | |
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Treborn | Unlocked by talking with either Diango or Ianto about recalling memories, and entering the code '0800488449' (8-22 January 2017) | |
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Scurvy | Reward after turning in 10,000 Phantom doubloons during the Deathbeard's Demise event | |
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Devotion sprite | Reward after turning in 10,000 Fabric scraps during the 2017 Valentine's event | |
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Zoltan | Unlocked from a Zoltan pet token | |
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Angelic Inari | Reward after turning in 10,000 Charity tokens during the Gielinorian Giving event |
Treasure Hunter Promos and Exclusive pets
| Icon | Name | Source | Requirements |
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Tumbleweed | Treasure Hunter | |
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Skully | Treasure Hunter | |
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Sq'irks the parrot | Treasure Hunter | |
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Hype train | Treasure Hunter | |
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Pumpkincrow | 2015 Hallowe'en event and Promo | 1000 Candy corn |
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Helps | Valentine's Day promo 2016 | 1,000 Valentine's petals |
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Kharidian cat | 2015 Hallowe'en event | 10,000 Noumenon favour |
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Saradomin Banner | Collect 750 Astromancer credits for the Saradomin faction | |
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Zamorak Banner | Collect 750 Astromancer credits for the Zamorak faction | |
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Armadyl Banner | Collect 750 Astromancer credits for the Armadyl faction | |
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Godless Banner | Collect 750 Astromancer credits for the Godless faction | |
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Pirate sheep | Treasure Hunter/Promotions (Talk Like A Pirate Day 2014) | 3,000 doubloons |
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Pet of Seasons | Pet of Seasons (Treasure hunter) | Win token or combine all 4 season pets |
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Roooots | Attack of the Zombie Sprouts | Unlock both sets of wings |
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Mimic | Treasure Hunter | Fight the Giant Mimic several times |
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Prime colossus | Twitch Prime promotion in April 2017 | Use a code obtained from the promotion. |
Solomon's Store pets
Summoning your pet
All Solomon's General Store pets are accessed and customized through the pet interface. This interface can be accessed via two ways: by right-clicking the summoning icon on the action bar and selecting "pet interface," or by opening the hero interface and selecting the "pets" tab. Pets can also be summoned without entering the pet interface by right-clicking the summoning icon on the action bar and selecting "summon pet."
Renaming your pet
All Solomon's Store Pets can be renamed via the pet interface. Currently, the Legendary and Companion pets can be renamed to one of the following names:
| Available pet names | ||||
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| Abaddon | Ahriman | Arc | Arezzo | Ash |
| Azazel | Bakeneko | Ballista | Barney | Bernard |
| Bernie | Blemp | Bombarde | Boneshi | Boomer |
| Bop | Boxy | Breach | Brimstone | Broadside |
| Bulwark | Casey | Casketteer | Cerberus | Charlie |
| Chernobog | Chloe | Claude | Cocoa | Combustio |
| Crispy | Crush | Cyclops | Daisy | Darklight |
| Deathbreath | Diabolos | Dino | Dirge | Draconis |
| Dracul | Drago | Drake | Drifter | Dusty |
| Ember | Fangs | Fido | Fifi | Firebelly |
| Firestarter | Fling | Flopsy | Fluffy | Forge |
| Forrest | Fury | Grimalkin | Grog | Hoppy |
| Igneous | Immy | Jack | Jane | Jet |
| Kibbles | Kirin | Kitsune | Kitty | Leandros |
| Led | Legs | Lei | Leonard | Leonidas |
| Linus | Lionel | Liono | Loup | Lycia |
| Magma | Magnus | Matey | Moley | Mr Punchy |
| Mr Stampy | Ms Punchy | Ms Stampy | Nemea | Nibbles |
| Nova | Nuke | Pandora | Patch | Pearl |
| Peggy | Penny | Pepper | Peter | Phantom |
| Phox | Pinyin | Pixiu | Polyphemus | Pookie |
| Puffy | Red Fang | Rex | Reynard | Riddle |
| Roasty | Rocky | Ruth | Sanguis | Sawbones |
| Shatter | Shinetails | Sifu | Silverlight | Simurgh |
| Skelesaur | Sleepy | Snookums | Snowy | Sparks |
| Sparky | Speedy | Spot | Squishy | Stan |
| Sunder | Thirsty | Tiankong | Tiddles | Timmy |
| Tiny | Titus | Toasty | Trample | Treasure Holder |
| Trebuchet | Whitebearrrd | Widget | Woobie | Xiongmao |
| Zhe | Zhu | |||
The Follower pets (Golden Chinchompa, Tiny Lucien, Piggles) can be renamed to one of the following names:
- Boomer
- Stan
- Fluffy
- Tiddles
- Sparks
- Jane
- Flopsy
- Peter
- Nuke
- Kibbles
- Daisy
- Jack
- Timmy
- Ruth
- Penny
- Woobie
- Squishy
- Widget
- Snookums
- Chloe
Recolouring your pet
All legendary and companion pets have the option to be recoloured on certain parts of their model.
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Companion pets
Companion pets may have 16 colour variations and no growth stages. Most companion pets has a unique emote that can be performed by interacting with it by right-clicking the Summoning icon near the minimap. Companion pets are also able to override familiars.
| Icon | Name | Source | Price |
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Golden chinchompa | Solomon's General Store | Free: 80 Members: 0 |
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Fimberzizz | Members Only: Loyalty Points 20,000 | |
| File:Vorago shard icon.png | Vorago shard | Free: 433 Members: 390 | |
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Dawn | Free: 380 Members: 342 | |
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Dusk | Free: 380 Members: 342 | |
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Elvis Pressie | Free: 355 Members: 320 | |
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Drakefire Warship | Free: 380 Members: 342 | |
| File:Inari icon.png | Inari | Free: 380 Members: 342 | |
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Brightflame ancient | Free: 380 Members: 342 | |
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Zenn | Members Only: Loyalty Points: 80,000 | |
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Repentant horror | Free: 380 Members: 342 | |
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Repentant beast | Free: 380 Members: 342 | |
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Repentant ogre | Free: 380 Members: 342 | |
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Biscuit | Part of the Nautilus Pack Free: 1000 Members: 900 | |
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Douglas | Free: 217 Members: 195 |
Legendary pets
| Icon | Name | Source | Price |
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Bloodpouncer | Available with Game Card promotions and the Gold Membership package in 2013 | N/A |
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Skypouncer | Solomon's General Store | Free: 1,083 Members: 975 |
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Blazehound | Free: 1,083 Members: 975 | |
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Dragon Wolf | Free: 1,083 Members: 975 | |
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Warborn behemoth | Free: 1,083 Members: 975 | |
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Prototype colossus | Free: 1,083 Members: 975 | |
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Rory the Reindeer | Free: 1,083 Members: | |
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Shadow Drake | Free: 1,517 Members: 1,365 | |
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Fire Drake | Free: 1,083 Members: 975 | |
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Shadow Gorilla | Free: 1,500 Members: 1,350 | |
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Jungle Gorilla | Free: 1,100 Members: 990 |
Abilities
Legendary pets have several unique abilities, described below. Pets in the baby stage can have one active ability, adolescent pets can have two, and adult pets can have three. Abilities can be switched out at any time unless that ability is on cooldown. Active abilites are switched via the pet interface by clicking on the "Abilities" button at the bottom right corner.
Life Saver, Slayer Finisher, Repair Item and Fertiliser are not available for Ironman accounts.
| Ability | Description | |
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Forage | The pet can randomly forage items when they are summoned. This can also be triggered actively. The foraged item is always one of the following:
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Banking | The pet is able to take an item to your bank; they can take one item every 10 minutes, and a stack of noted items are banked all at once. The pet's ability to bank does not work beyond level 1 Wilderness. If one just crosses the Wilderness wall (and the Wilderness level display does not actually appear; thus can be considered "Wilderness level 0") and does not walk north, then the pet's banking ability still can be used. |
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Scavenge | The pet is able to scavenge dropped items from the moment it is obtained. To access the scavenge feature, 'Interact' with the pet and select 'Convenience', then select 'Scavenge'. When scavenge is selected, a menu interface will appear; the pet will automatically collect charms, but is able to pick up other items too. You can make the pet scavenge: Gold, Runes & Talismans, Herbs & Seeds, Weapons, Armour, Metal Bars & Ore, Bones & Ashes, Raw & Cooked food and Miscellaneous.
The pet will only pick up one item from a slain enemy; if an enemy drops two or more items, the pet will only pick up one. The pet will not always pick up items after a kill. There is a chance that the item picked up by the pet will appear in your bank rather than being in your inventory. This ability has a cooldown of 10 seconds. To deactivate scavenge, 'interact' with your pet, select 'convenience' and select 'Heel'. |
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Life Saver | Your pet will save you from death, as per a ring of life. This does not work in PvP areas and has a two-hour cooldown (logged-in time). |
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Slayer Finisher | Your pet will automatically finish off Slayer monsters that usually require an item, saving you an inventory slot. |
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Item Repair | Once per hour, you can use a repairable degrading item on your pet to repair it immediately. This works – and costs – the same as using the POH armour stand. |
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Beast of Burden | Using a Beast of Burden familiar pouch on the pet allows it to act as a version of that familiar with 10,600 life points and the same time limit. Using multiple pouches on the pet lets you extend the time for up to two hours. Unlike most Beasts of Burden, legendary pets do not use Summoning points. This ability cannot be used in the Wilderness. |
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High Level Alchemy | Once per 10 minutes, use an item on your pet to convert it to coins, as per the High Alchemy spell. This requires 55 Magic, but does not need runes and gives no experience. |
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Fertiliser | Every hour (of logged in time), the pet can be interacted to spawn pet droppings. It can be picked up for six buckets of compost or supercompost if the player is on a member's world. It also has a 1 in 10,000 chance of spawning Mod Daze's homework or Mod Dolan's rubber duck. |
Pet growth
All Legendary pets have three stages of growth - baby, adolescent, and adult. A pet will take approximately 15 hours to reach the adolescent stage and an additional 25 hours to reach the adult stage. This time can be halved by "playing" with your pet by making it do one of its two emotes. It appears that while the pet is with you, it generates its own pet points up to a cap of 30 points. When this cap is reached, simply making the pet do an emote will allow you to retrieve the generated points, making it possible to raise the pet in half the time. The legendary pets generate their own points that you obtain through doing their emotes. The rate is around a point a minute meaning if you do an emote every 5 minutes, you will get roughly 5 points each time on average. But it should be noted that the rate of pet points generated by your pet is unpredictable; your pet can generate 2 pet points in minute or no points after a few minutes. If you do one pet emote a day, that means you will get only 30 pet points since you reached the cap of 30.
900 points are required for a legendary pet to reach the adolescent state, and a further 1500 points for it to reach the adult stage.
Although a Legendary pet does not need to be fed like normal pets, feeding it a Tasty Treat will increase the rate at which it grows by 50%, and feeding it a Jelly Treat will increase it by 100%.
Companion and Follower pets do not grow, nor can they be fed.
Emotes
Each pet from the store has individual emotes. See their individual pages for details.
Overriding
Legendary pets are able to override familiars.
Use and reception
When pets were first released, many players complained that pets still required food even when fully grown, unlike the cats, which required no feeding once a kitten had grown up. This was explained as stress on the server as having a pet or familiar out all the time would inevitably slow them down. This is also the reason why timers are implemented and no familiars are visible in high player density areas such as the Grand Exchange. Pets being high maintenance was too much bother to some players that would likely have the ability to own the higher level pets and wouldn't consider keeping them out other than for passive activities. This was especially true for pets with non-stackable food of which is currently the majority. Familiars however filled the gap that many thought pets would take, as skill/combat aids and beasts of burden, leaving pets largely ignored for lack of any ability.
As part of an update on 19 December 2012, pets no longer run away as a result of hunger, with the exception of pet cats.
Trivia
- Initially, players could have mature God birds of differing Gods. Jagex limited God bird ownership to one bird for a time, but with the introduction of the Menagerie, it became possible to own all three God birds at once.
- Zamorak hawks and Saradomin Owls prevent warriors from said allegiances attacking you while in the God Wars Dungeon. This can be extremely useful for players who do not wish to be forced to wear a particular armour showing allegiance to said groups.
- Eek, the reward for completing the 2009 Hallowe'en Event, could be considered the first pet allowed to Non-members. However, because Eek won't follow you, she could be considered similar to a Pet rock or Pet fish. Eek can also be put into the menagerie, where the player has the option to 'Interact' with her, resulting in the same dialogue.
- Players originally had a limit on the number of pets they could own. This started with 2 pets of different types at level 1 Summoning, along with 2 more for every ten levels starting at level 11. However, the limit on different types of pets was removed on 16 January 2012.
- Prior to the introduction of Summoning, the only pets in Gielinor were cats, fish and pet rocks.
- On 5 December 2016, a bug allowed multiple pets to be summonable. A hotfix made right-clicking pets without owners to be deleted.[1]
- The pet name "Nuke" may be a reference to the pet cat in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.
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