Snowy Owls Hibernating Soon!

The Snowy Owl will be going into hibernation soon; March 19 soon. Be sure to capture one now before it's too late. You'll have to wait until December 21, 2014 for your next chance.

If you can't seem to find a rare quality one in the wild, remember that you can always capture one of any quality (but make sure it's the breed you want), and then upgrade it later using a battlestone. For collectors, it's better than nothing!

Personally, the Snowy Owl is my favorite out of all the pets that share the same model. The colors are subtle and graceful, very pretty. :)

Qiraji Guardling Spawns In "Real" Summer

If you thought that there were only two season in WoW, the Snowy Owl and Qiraji Guardling will prove you wrong!

Mumper confirmed that the guardling has a "few months to go" before it starts showing up on servers.

"The Qiraji Guardling will be available in the summertime. Still a few months to go."

So although the Summer Bass may be spawning, the guardling actually requires "real" summer. This may mean the earliest we'll see it is in May or June.

The theory that the Snowy Owl spawns on November 1st was a bug and they should have appeared as soon as the Winter Squid started showing up doesn't seem to hold true now that we have this new piece of information. Although the squid can be fished up starting September 23, this is actually only the beginning of fall in the "real world".

If these two wild pets follow the "real world" seasons, then the guardling should begin spawning in June (summer solstice). However, it's arguable since the Snowy Owl spawned about one month ahead of the winter solstice, which starts in December. That being said, if the owl spawn date is correct and not a bug or a mistake, then we can apply that to the guardling as well and determine that it will show up one month prior to the "real world" start of summer, ie: May. It should continue to spawn for about four months.

Recap:

- Snowy Owl: between November 1st through March 1st

- Qiraji Guardling: between May 1st through September 1st (this still needs to be confirmed, and is only a guess)

We'll need to wait and see about the guardling, and another confirmation for the owls wouldn't hurt either.

I don't know about anyone else, but even though there's still some time before the guardling shows up, I'm keeping my alt parked in Silithus. "Just in case"? Wishful thinking. :P

Snowy Owl Season Over

Winter may not officially be over, but the Snowy Owls seem to have gone into hiding already. I've checked two different servers and haven't found a single owl. It could be that I was just terribly unlucky and someone had just cleared out the zone of owls, but there have also been reports on the WarcraftPets forums of missing feathery friends in Winterspring.

There's been some speculation over just when these flying pets would disappear, since they originally did not follow the seasonal timing of the Winter Squid. At first this was believed to be a bug/effect of the expansion being released at an awkward time for the Snowy Owl, but it's getting really hard to tell.

On the official Pet Battles forum, a player reports that all the Snowy Owls stopped spawning midnight of February 28 (in other words, March 1st). Other users on WarcraftPets also noticed the lack of owls starting on the first of March. I'm hoping to get an official confirmation on the date of its last spawn.

At the moment, it would appear that the Snowy Owls spawn on November 1st and stick around until March 1st, while the Winter Squid spawns between September 23rd and March 20th. It's puzzling why they wouldn't share the same dates, as they both require "winter". On the other hand, one is fished up and the other is a flying critter, so there's no absolute reason they should follow the same pattern. In the end, they are both showing up during WoW's "winter", however short or long the duration.

Since the Snowy Owl appears to have gone into hibernation now, be sure to keep your eye out for the Qiraji Guardling! "Summer" is coming. :P

Newest Finds

I've had two recent successful captures that I'm very pleased with. The first being a rare quality Mountain Cottontail. It may look like an ordinary bunny, but there's on thing that sets it apart: SHINY!


As far as I know, it's the only pet that can come in a super glossy skin. Not all of them have this color, though. They can come in normal white, brown, and brown/white. Finding a shiny Mountain Cottontail isn't too difficult, but I wasn't satisfied with just finding any old quality, though. I had to have it in rare PLUS shiny!

It took some patience and determination, but I managed to find one. :D

The second awesome find that occurred recently was a rare Snowy Owl. This beautiful bird only just started to spawn today. I absolutely love the colors for this pet.


At first it seemed like any other quality other than poor and common didn't exist. A guildmate and I scoured all over Winterspring and spent over an hour or two searching with no luck.

When it appeared as though the entire zone was cleared out, we decided to try a new tactic. Utilizing alts we crossed over into another server. Yea, I know. Not exactly a very ideal or ethical choice, especially since you're essentially "stealing" another server's spawns, but it was so late at night that it was unlikely that there would be many people on.

We managed to find one rare one and then a second within a few moments of being on another server. Lucky! Super satisfied with our find. :)

With these two newest additions to my collection, I feel as though my energy and determination to collect and upgrade all my pets has been renewed. After a while, hunting for rares and leveling started to feel so routine and monotonous, but now I'm all pumped to keep going until I near my ultimate goal of collecting all rares and all the things! :)

Snowy Owl Spawns

Sephrenia discovered that the Snowy Owls are up in Winterspring! EU for now, but that means NA servers should be seeing them spawn shortly.

Latest comments on Wowhead are also indicating that the Snowy Owl is indeed available for capture now. But if in doubt, simply check out Winterspring on your server.

It looks like "winter" will start November 1st, so good luck to everyone!