📘 Pet Collector – A Better Way to Browse Your Pets

Pet Collector is a modern, clean, and visually rich alternative to the default Pet Journal.
Designed for collectors, completionists, and pet enthusiasts, this addon showcases your entire collection in an elegant 3D gallery view with powerful filtering and search options.

If you enjoy collecting pets, this addon gives you the album-style presentation they deserve.

🖼️ Beautiful 3D Grid View

• View your pets in a multi-column scrollable gallery
• Each entry displays:
  • 3D pet model
  • Collected count (e.g. 1/3)
  • Pet name & level
• Option to view as Full Gallery, with 3D models or as Compact grid with only icons.

Perfect for browsing your entire collection at a glance.

🔍 Powerful Search Engine

Search by name, zone, source, and more:

• wolf
• name:whelp
• source:vend
• zone:uldum
• source:drop,name:serpent
• ability: breath

Supports multiple filters at once using simple “field:value” syntax.

🎚️ Filter Sidebar

Quickly narrow down your collection:

• Pet Family (Beast, Magical, Water, etc.)
• Source Type (Vendor, Drop, Quest, Event, Achievement)
• Owned / Unowned
• Battle Pet / Peaceful Pet

📄 Detailed Pet Viewer

Click any pet to open a custom detail panel:

• Full acquisition info
• Stats for each owned copy
• Tabs for multiple owned variants
• Useable pet battle abilities

Perfect for comparing, inspecting, and planning your collection.

📊 Collection Stats

The main window also includes:

• Total pets collected
• Completion percentage
• Pets shown after filters
• Overall species count

Great for tracking progress.

📒Ability Compendium

- Newly added in V2 -

• Lists all Battle Pet Abiliities in the game
• Shows all pets known to have the ability

This tool is accessible by the side panel button on the main Pet Collector window.

⚔ In-Battle Comparison Tool

- Newly added in V2 -

• Quickly compare a challenged wild pet against the already caught variants.
• Reacts if the wild pet is uncollected, or better quality than caught variants.

This tool is enabled by default, but can be disabled if desired by the setting menu, or the side panel.

🧭 Pet Radar Tool

- Newly added in V2 -

• If enabled it will record sightings of wild battle pets that have not been collected.
• Mousing Over a wild pet will flag if its uncollected and record the time and location it was seen.
• Records as confirmed sighting if the actual pet was moused over.
• Records as likely sighting if the mini map icon is moused over.
• Records up to 35 sighted pets.

This tool is disabled by default, but can be enabled through AddOn settings, or by the side panel of the main window.

🧩 Slash Commands

🛠️ Why Use Pet Collector?

✔ Cleaner and more organized than the default Pet Journal
✔ Better for browsing large collections
✔ Designed for completionists
✔ Supports modern search and filter systems
✔ Highly visual, elegant, and easy to use

If you collect pets, but aren't as interested in all the clutter of the battle party info, then this would be useful for you.

📦 Installation

1. Download the ZIP

2. Extract to:
   World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/

3. Enable the addon and enjoy!

❤️ Feedback & Suggestions

I am open to feedback and suggestions so feel free to provide any.
Unless there are significant changes that need to be made, there will be very minimal updates for this AddOn, since it achieved the goal I intended for it.

This is the first WoW AddOn that I've published, and am still a novice with LUA scripting, so I'll do what I can with any feedback I recieve.

Happy collecting! 🐾