An Achieve for a Pet, for an Achieve, for a Title. (for a real life craft. Phew!)

Title: Crazy Cat Lady

Achievement: Crazy For Cats

Pet: Mr. Bigglesworth

Achievement: Raiding with Leashes.

I'm still working on my Achievement "Crazy for Cats", to get the title "Crazy Cat Lady".  Today I am making a list of what I need to do to obtain my title.

For the Crazy for Cats achievement and title "Crazy Cat Lady" I need to obtain 20 of 25 specific cats on a list.

• I have 14 of the cats. 
• I need six more cat pets.
• Four on the list are either unavailable or require hundreds of dollars.  Real life American Dollars.  That is not happening.
• One is a World Drop that is proving to be very elusive.  
• One is bought with a currency that you earn from Completing the Celestial Tournament. 
• One is from the achievement "Raiding with Leashes".  I hope Mr. Kitty will help me with this, thus the list here.  Also, a lot of the pets in the Raiding with Leashes list are ones that are mentioned many times in guides for the Celestial Tournament. Specially Chrominius and Anubisath Idol, very powerful battle pets.

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Mr. Bigglesworth - Raiding with Leashes

Mr. Bigglesworth, the reward for "Raiding With Leashes", requires you to collect twelve specific pets, from four classic raids.

Question:  I have had some of the pets on this list given to me.  Will they count for the achievement or do I have to collect them all again from the raid?  Anyone know?  Please leave a comment if you know.  Thanks :)

The old world Raids and the pets needed for the Raiding with Leashes achievement are:

Blackwing Lair: 

1. Chrominius, drops from Chromaggus in Nefarian's Lair.
2. Death Talon Whelpguard, drops from Broodlord Lashlayer in the Crimson Laboratories, and, 
3. Untamed Hatchling, I have one, drops from Razorgore the Untamed in the Dragonmaw Garrison.

Molten Core:

1. Corefire Imp drops from Magmadar.
2. Harbinger of Flame drops from Sulfuron Harbinger.
3. Ashstone Core, I have one, drops from Golemagg the Incinerator.

Temple of Ahn'Qiraj

1. Anubisath Idol drops from Emperor Vek'lor in The Hive Undergrounds.
2. Viscidus Globule drops from Viscidus in The Hive Undergrounds.
3. Mini Mindslayer, I have one, drops from The Prophet Skeram at The Temple Gates.

Naxxramas

1. Fungal Abomination drops from Loatheb in The Plague Quarter.
2. Stitched Pup drops from Gluth in The Construct Quarter.
3. Giant Bone Spider, I have one, drops from Maexxna [crap ~ A Giant Red Spider!] in The Arachnid Quarter.  Yum!  Spiders! 

Okay, if I get Mr. Bigglesworth that means I need five more:

- one is no longer available. [Guardian Cub] I wish I had overcome my aversion to purchasing pets in the Blizzard Shop before they discontinued it! :(

- one [Spectral Cub] was from a Shanghai promotion in 2012.  Nope, not gonna get that one!

- two [Nightsaber Cub, Spectral Tiger Cub] are TCG, Trading Card Game, pets.  I do NOT understand the Trading Card Game, it doesn't seem like much of a "game" to me.  You buy cards, [in real life with real money!] hope to get the one you need with a code, to enter into the WoW game, to get the pet.  If the card/code you need isn't in the package, you buy another one.  And another, and another, and another ... hmmm, ... ... money much?

- one, Xu-Fu, Cub of Xuen, you buy with 3 Celestial Coins.  To get a Celestial Coin, you must win the Celestial Tournament and it's associated quest, The Rainy Day is Here.  To ENTER the Tournament, you need 15 level 25 pets.  You can only enter the tournament once per week, per account[not even per character, per account!].  You must complete the tournament in one go.  You may not use your "revive pets" function. This is a Guide [Celestial Tournament with 18 pets] with all the hoary details!

- one is a Profession Crafted Pet, [Sapphire Cub] which means, usually, lots of in-game Gold!

- one, Panther Cub, is a Quest Reward.  Easy, peasy, go do a quest, get a cat pet.  Ha!  The quest "Some Good Will Come", is the thirteenth quest in a nineteen quest chain! This comment lists the quest chain with links to them all. (Hold the Phone!  The wowhead page for the reward item "Panther Cub", also lists three vendors under the "sold by" tab!  As soon as I get this post published, I'll hop in game and after I do my chores, head off to check out those vendors and see if I can just buy one for 50 silver! will edit with what I discover.)

- Cheetah Cub is a pet battle in the Northern Barrens, which I'm off to shortly!.

- Siamese Cat, is sold by the Exotic Creatures Vendor Dealer Rashaad, located in Netherstorm, Outland.  Who I had been avoiding because I loathe that zone.  Then I was avoiding it because since WoD dropped, I don't know how to get to Outland.  So, I guess I will go figure it out once I have my Cheetah Cub in my Journal and I've wasted time on grinding for the Black Tabby!

That should about do it.  I've made a lot of progress since I last looked all this up.  With this linked list now, I should never have to re-do this research again!  If I am very lucky and Blessed by the RNG Gods, I may be able to get 3 or 4 of the last six I need tonight.  That would just leave Mr. Bigglesworth and Xu-Fu!

Wish Me Luck, Nor

[an aside: Red Bear, in real life, crafted me a "Crazy Cat Lady" journal/mini-album because, in real life, I AM a Crazy Cat Lady and I think I may natter on occasionally about working for the achievement in WoW. ...   Me? ...  Natter?  ...  Maybe just a bit! ... ...  Plus ~ I made a rule for myself that I can't craft the album up with pictures and stuff until I get the title. Because ... ... reasons.]

Early Northrend - Dungeon Runs - Profession Quandary - Killing Horde Leaders!

So, questing in Northrend starts off great!

Waiting for the Turtle Boat beside Agloolik [sounds like Igloolik!]

Riding the Turtle Boat!  

Riding the boat for a quest, for real, not just for fun while we're up here touring and looking for Elders!

woo hoo!

Back to Stormwind to work on Cooking and Mining. I am trying to get my mining up to a level so I don't have to ignore ore veins as I'm questing because my mining level isn't high enough.  So that means back to Outland for Fel Iron.

Take a boat to Stormwind

Cooking over 400 - getting there!

Though part of me says ignore my professions while I'm questing.  'cept, what do I do with the tonnes of ore in my bank now?  I hate to vendor them and have to re-aquire them.  But they're taking up so much bag and bank space.  But my levels are too low to make stuff with them without running around all over Azeroth gathering pearls and citrine.

Looking for Fel Iron - Smelting Fel Iron

 What's a Space Goat to do?

Start a bank alt?  Who doesn't have any bags, and distracts you ...

A quiet little park, nestled in a corner of Stormwind

Soozuu at a little park she found in Stormwind.

Nyx catchin' some squirrels!

Noritam at level 72 with her Guild Tabard on.

Although, even Vier can cause a distraction from questing to 90, from time to time!

Showing off new gear and title!

Stupid.  Stoopid Weatherguard Keep Quest. Of course on a day when Vier's around to help me quest by killing stuff, I get a quest that she can't help me with!

stoopid quest

Take a bird,... learn to fly it,... pick up stranded villagers ... and deliver them to safety.  While Vier gets bored.  argh!

Takes forever and forever to pick up a villager then all of the sudden ... I got one!  

Crap! Now what do I do?

[see chat log]

Nor: "Shit!  Where do I take him?"

Vier [slightly startled]: "um ... to the keep I think?"

Helpless Villager: "Thanks!  You saved my life.  You're my guardian angel ..."

Nor:  "ya, ya, ... whatevs ... where do I take you and how many more of you guys do I have to save?"

I hate this quest!

Questing in Dragonblight with the Night Elves.

Level 73!

Back on the Turtle Boat.

Distraction:  Vier is doing a group quest in the middle of the night to get a Battle Bear Mount, do I want to go along?

We're gonna kill 4 leaders of the Horde.

Payback for Christmas Eve!  ... ... Damn right I wanna go along!

Can they see us?  um ... well, ya!  Why aren't they doing anything?  They can't 'til we start something!

Oh so many things to learn!

As Penny would say ... "Holy Crap onna Cracker!"

Needless to say, I didn't have a clue what was going on, and I'm not sure I helped as much as I hindered but ... only one more Horde Leader to kill and I get my War Bear too!

Vier gets More Gear, another TiTle and a companion pet to match Alphonse!!

Bane of the Fallen King

That's a pretty fierce face ya got on there Vier!
Even though I'm taking forever to get to 90, we must take breaks now and again to admire the growing collection of our resident mount-a-holic!

Armored Black Kitty

ooooo - a very fierce lookin' serpent!  gotta get me one of those!

A Kite from Panda Land

To tell the truth, I was just about to mock this next mount, when appeared a hitching post right in front of me.

A Fiery Warhorse with Sharesies!

"What's this?"  [it's kinda like in my way, blocking my path daughter dear --- I'm thinking]
 
"Click on it"

"Oh!"  "a War Horse for Me too?!"

"aw"

I like this one!

Oh wait!  I got a something new of my own to show off!  He was on sale!

Yes, I finally gave in and ordered a couple of pets from the Blizzard Store - even though I said I'd never pay for a pet!  I am Weak!

Alterac Brew Pup - yes, two links.  One to a very cute You Tube on the Brew Pup and one to a great screenshot on wowhead that highlights his drool!

If you click on him, you get the "You create: Mulled Alterac Brandy" thingy and then you get some brandy to drink.  Then you get tipsy ...

Drinking and Flying ...

Flying Under the Influence --- NOT a good idea!

Ciao for now!
Nor.