Pet The Pets

What it does

Pet The Pets sends a /pet emote to the furry friends around you, out of combat only. It pets three kinds of target:

• Hunter pets: any beast-type pet a player controls. Warlock demons and death knight ghouls are skipped.
• Druids in an animal form: Cat, Bear, Travel, Moonkin, Aquatic, Treant and Mount forms. A setting lets you pet every druid instead.
• Shamans in Ghost Wolf form.

Each target can only be petted once every 2 minutes, and there is a 3-second gap between any two pets, so nobody's chat gets flooded. It was built for WoW Forever and also runs on retail Midnight.

How to use it

There are three ways to pet something, and all of them work only out of combat.

• Hover over a player. Move your mouse over a druid in an animal form or a shaman in Ghost Wolf form who is within about 28 yards, and you pet them.
• Click. Target any hunter pet, druid in an animal form or Ghost Wolf shaman, and you pet them straight away. Hunter pets can only be petted this way, because their names ("Wolf", "Cat") aren't unique enough for the game to find.
• Keybind macro. To pet a hunter pet without keeping it targeted, make a macro with the three lines below and bind it to a key. Press the key while hovering: it targets what's under your cursor, pets it, then switches back to your previous target.

/tar [@mouseover,exists]
/pet
/targetlasttarget

Slash commands

Type /petpets or the shorter /ptp, followed by one of these. Settings are saved between sessions.

Limits and troubleshooting

Blizzard doesn't let addons change your target, so nothing gets petted unless you hover over it, click it or press a key.

• "You need to be petted." means the game couldn't find the name it was given, so it petted you instead. Turn on /ptp debug, hover again, and look at the name it sent.
• Nothing happens on hover. The player may be farther than about 28 yards away, or may not be in a form the addon recognizes. Debug mode lists the buffs it found on them.
• Combat: the addon does nothing while you or the target are fighting.
• Non-English clients: demon and ghoul names are matched in English, so on other languages those pets may get petted too.