Seriously, no thank you. I love COLLECTING pets, to show, especially when they were hard earned through quests or achievements. OR if they are from Blizzcon (then I can talk to other people with the same pets about Blizzcon if I wanted to). But to me, they are for display, a way to customize my toon, not to play with. While I would love to name my Warlock's minion, I have no desire to rename my companion pets as their current names will tell you who they are and where they came from. (If I named my Phoenix Hatching "Bunky" or something, how do people look up where it came from?) If I wanted to collect and fight with pets, I'd roll a hunter. Wait . . . I've got one that I never play, though I DO love naming those pets, they are not unique (well, there are unusual or elite hunter pets but you don't carry around so many of them as companion pets).

I just hope other people won't keep bugging me about fighting my companion pets the way strangers bug me about duels (as in not taking my first "no" for an answer). ***sigh*** another thing for little kids (and yes, I consider teenagers in the game to be little kids) to bug me about. :P And get off my damn lawn. :D