Pet

A menagerie housing many pets.

A pet is a non-combat NPC loyal to a player that is generally obtained from monster drops and skilling. Most pets do not serve a purpose other than aesthetics and are very rare drops from certain bosses or skilling activities. Most pets can be interacted with. A player may only have one pet following them at one time. Pets only move at a walking pace (except for Nexling); if they become stuck and/or too far away from the player they follow, they will teleport close to the player and continue. They can also be called to the player's side using the Call follower button under the Worn Equipment tab. There are currently 61 available pets in Old School RuneScape, of which 56 fill a collection log slot.

Pets may be stored in the bank or inventory, and will follow the player when dropped. Players can store up to 52 pets in the Menagerie of a player-owned house (with the highest-level pet houses).

Unlike other pets, cats are the only kind of pets that must be raised to maturity by following the player. Kittens must be stroked and fed regularly or they will run away. Once they reach adult stage, they no longer need to be fed.

Obtaining a pet

When a player receives a one-off pet (i.e. a boss or skilling pet), it will automatically try to appear as their follower. At the same time, a message in the chatbox will state You have a funny feeling like you're being followed. Upon receiving a pet, a small sound will be heard.

	Receiving a pet
The sound which can be heard when players receive a one-off pet.

However, if a player receives a pet while having a follower out (for example, a cat), it will be placed into their inventory. When this occurs, the message in the chatbox will instead state You feel something weird sneaking into your backpack. If a player's inventory is full and they have a follower already, they will not receive the pet; it must instead be claimed from Probita in East Ardougne for a reclaim token, which costs 1,000,000 coins. When skilling, the pet is prioritised over the resource gathered; it will be placed in the last inventory slot available, while the resource gathered will be dropped underneath the player if their inventory becomes full. However, this does not apply to Farming due to the complexity of the skill's code.

Players can still roll for a pet drop even if they already own the pet; when this happens, players will receive the message You have a funny feeling like you would have been followed... The only exception to this is the abyssal orphan due to being obtained differently compared to other pets. In addition, players will be given a pet reclaim token, accompanied with the message You have been given one free pet reclaim with Probita.

If a player dies with a one-off pet following them (or if it is in their inventory and it is not one of the items protected on death) in a dangerous situation, the pet will be dropped and wander around the area for 30 seconds before despawning. Even if the player returns in time, the pet cannot be picked up, and can be reclaimed from Probita in East Ardougne for a reclaim token.

If a player runs out of membership with a pet still following them, the pet is placed in their inventory. They will receive the message Your pet is scared into your backpack. If the player does not have space in their inventory, the pet is placed in their bank. If the player's bank is full or exceeds the allowable free-to-play bank space limit, their pet is sent to Probita in East Ardougne, where they will have a free reclaim token usable to reclaim their pet.

List of pets

Boss pets

Each pet has a chance to be rewarded for defeating a certain boss monster or completing a raid, including skilling bosses and minigame bosses. Additionally, with the exception of the Phoenix (rewarded for defeating Wintertodt) these pets resemble or are capable of resembling the bosses they are associated with.

Pet		Source	Drop rate
	Abyssal orphan	The Abyssal Sire	1/2,560
	Baby mole/mole-rat	The Giant Mole	1/3,000
	Callisto cub	Callisto and Artio	1/2,000 (Callisto) 1/2,800 (Artio)
	Baron	Duke Sucellus	1/2,500
	Butch	Vardorvis	1/3,000
	Hellpuppy	Cerberus	1/3,000
	Ikkle hydra	The Alchemical Hydra	1/3,000
	Jal-nib-rek/Tzrek-zuk	The Inferno	1/100 (per kill or gamble) 1/75 (per kill on Slayer task)
	Kalphite princess	Kalphite Queen	1/3,000
	Muphin	The Phantom Muspah	1/2,500
	Lil'viathan	The Leviathan	1/2,500
	Lil' zik/maiden/bloat/nylo/sot/xarp	The Theatre of Blood	Varies
	Little nightmare/parasite	The Nightmare	1/800 to 1/4000 (From 1 to 5+ team size)
	Nexling	Nex	1/500
	Noon/Midnight	The Grotesque Guardians	1/3,000
	Olmlet/Puppadile/Tektiny/Vanguard/Vasa Minirio/Vespina	The Chambers of Xeric	1/53 (per broadcasted unique item)
	Pet chaos elemental	The Chaos Elemental and the Chaos Fanatic	1/300 (Elemental) 1/1,000 (Fanatic)
	Pet dagannoth prime	Dagannoth Prime	1/5,000
	Pet dagannoth rex	Dagannoth Rex	1/5,000
	Pet dagannoth supreme	Dagannoth Supreme	1/5,000
	Pet dark core/Corporeal critter	The Corporeal Beast	1/5,000
	Pet general graardor	General Graardor	1/5,000
	Pet k'ril tsutsaroth	K'ril Tsutsaroth	1/5,000
	Pet kraken	The Kraken	1/3,000
	Pet kree'arra	Kree'arra	1/5,000
	Pet smoke devil	The Thermonuclear smoke devil	1/3,000
	Pet snakeling	Zulrah	1/4,000
	Pet zilyana	Commander Zilyana	1/5,000
	Phoenix	Wintertodt	1/5,000
	Prince black dragon	The King Black Dragon	1/3,000
	Scorpia's offspring	Scorpia	1/2,015.75
	Skotos	Skotizo	1/65
	Smolcano	Zalcano	1/2,250
	Sraracha	Sarachnis	1/3,000
	Tiny tempor	Tempoross	1/8,000
	Tumeken's guardian/Tumeken's damaged guardian/Elidinis' guardian/Elidinis' damaged guardian/Akkhito/Babi/Kephriti/Zebo	The Tombs of Amascut	Varies
	Tzrek-jad/Jalrek-jad	TzHaar Fight Cave	1/200 (per kill or gamble) 1/100 (per kill on Slayer task)
	Venenatis spiderling	Venenatis and Spindel	1/2,000 (Venenatis) 1/2,800 (Spindel)
	Vet'ion jr.	Vet'ion and Calvar'ion	1/2,000 (Vet'ion) 1/2,800 (Calvar'ion)
	Vorki	Vorkath	1/3,000
	Wisp	The Whisperer	1/2,000
	Youngllef	The Gauntlet	1/2,000 (normal Gauntlet) 1/800 (Corrupted Gauntlet)

Skilling pets

These pets are obtained by training a specific skill, with the chance of obtaining one being based on the player's level in the corresponding skill and the base chance of the activity being performed.

For all drop rates, use the formula: ${\text{DropRate}}={\frac {1}{{\text{BaseChance}}-({\text{SkillLevel}}*25)}}$. Base chances are found in the individual page of each pet. A player's chance of receiving a skilling pet does not increase past level 99, with only one exception: players with 200 million experience in the corresponding skill will be fifteen times more likely in receiving the skilling pet.

As the rates use the player's base level, temporary skill boosts such as the dragon pickaxe's special attack or invisible boosts in areas such as the Woodcutting Guild do not affect the rate at which players can obtain these pets.

Pet		Source	Drop rate
	Baby chinchompa	Obtained while hunting chinchompas	See here
	Beaver	Obtained while woodcutting	See here
	Giant squirrel	Obtained while training agility	See here
	Heron	Obtained while fishing	See here
	Rift guardian	Obtained through runecraft	See here
	Rock golem	Obtained while mining	See here
	Rocky	Obtained while thieving	See here
	Tangleroot	Obtained while farming	See here

Other

These pets are obtained either through quests or other means.

Pet		Source	Drop rate
	Abyssal protector	Guardians of the Rift	1/4,000
	Bloodhound	Master clue scrolls	1/1,000
	Cat	Gertrude, after completing Gertrude's Cat	N/A
	Chompy chick	Dropped by Chompy birds after completing the Elite Western Provinces Diary	1/500
	Hellcat	Catching Hell-Rats with a cat	N/A
	Herbi	Hunting herbiboars	1/6,500
	Lil' creator/ Lil' destructor	Soul Wars	1/400
	Pet fish	Caught in Harry's Fishing Shop	N/A
	Pet penance queen	Barbarian Assault	1/1,000
	Pet rock	Askeladden after The Fremennik Trials	N/A
	Toy cat	Clockwork and a regular plank used at a Crafting table 4 with 85 Crafting	N/A

One-off pet totals

This is how many times each pet has been obtained by players, sorted by date. On the linked tweets by Jagex Moderators, they are also divided into columns based on ironman status.

Pet		8 Oct 2015	14 Mar 2016	7 Nov 2016	16 May 2017	16 Nov 2017	24 May 2018	22 Feb 2019	21 Feb 2020	24 Dec 2021
	Chaos Elemental	2,413	3,393	5,718	7,251	9,306	12,312	16,677	25,615	40,388
	Dagannoth Supreme	623	972	1,951	2,948	4,017	5,086	6,818	9,380	12,224
	Dagannoth Prime	613	976	1,844	2,738	3,745	4,778	6,419	8,928	11,694
	Dagannoth Rex	1,031	1,471	2,565	3,789	5,111	6,589	8,985	12,436	16,222
	Baby mole	521	782	1,610	2,766	4,668	6,562	8,334	11,818	21,171
	Kalphite princess	307	504	1,282	1,841	2,626	3,515	4,570	5,986	9,040
	Smoke devil	1,487	2,072	4,032	5,534	7,413	9,851	13,668	19,479	30,568
	Kree'arra	376	523	841	1,000	1,287	1,738	2,360	3,510	5,036
	General Graardor	918	1,393	2,600	3,394	4,178	5,225	6,724	9,675	12,359
	Zilyana	505	799	1,397	1,829	2,256	2,783	3,383	4,331	6,250
	K'ril Tsutsaroth	310	492	1,041	1,310	1,549	1,811	2,192	2,981	4,606
	Prince black dragon	1,950	3,050	5,614	7,530	9,830	12,406	15,750	20,965	27,795
	Kraken	4,051	6,006	11,750	17,050	23,070	31,906	45,655	66,139	97,357
	Penance Queen	81	136	294	410	542	670	826	1,129	1,625
	Dark core	263	487	971	1,230	1,436	1,762	2,078	2,701	4,087
	Snakeling	3,577	5,340	9,870	14,345	17,126	21,242	29,144	42,072	41,273
	Chompy chick	476	858	2,209	3,451	5,573	8,520	12,066	17,779	31,686
	Venenatis spiderling	590	996	1,896	2,396	3,011	3,574	4,832	7,268	8,874
	Callisto cub	244	419	969	1,390	1,998	2,641	3,546	4,999	6,483
	Vet'ion jr.	134	203	468	617	785	992	1,393	2,157	3,111
	Scorpia's offspring	351	572	997	1,501	2,006	2,481	3,168	4,265	5,986
	Tzrek-jad	648	1,443	3,290	4,822	6,629	8,679	12,047	16,352	24,278
	Hellpuppy	414	1,165	3,060	4,826	6,829	9,090	12,568	18,021	28,847
	Abyssal orphan	76	444	1,572	2,579	3,953	5,135	6,635	9,215	16,461
	Heron	N/A	2,608	13,062	20,883	28,447	36,147	50,906	72,510	92,657
	Rock golem	N/A	1,559	6,335	11,217	17,222	25,653	40,455	62,910	80,460
	Beaver	N/A	2,458	10,804	17,838	25,219	33,305	47,237	68,482	94,686
	Baby chinchompa	N/A	1,345	5,119	8,098	11,022	14,122	19,397	26,957	22,326
	Bloodhound	N/A	N/A	137	305	492	739	1,171	2,071	3,912
	Giant squirrel	N/A	N/A	1,418	7,576	12,890	19,353	31,723	51,136	66,921
	Tangleroot	N/A	N/A	591	2,678	4,813	7,547	15,154	31,184	56,385
	Rocky	N/A	N/A	1,332	6,629	13,295	24,478	38,796	63,326	85,625
	Rift guardian	N/A	N/A	763	3,521	6,499	10,109	15,995	26,804	43,618
	Phoenix	N/A	N/A	3,436	8,393	13,105	18,244	29,905	46,083	78,242
	Olmlet	N/A	N/A	N/A	547	1,414	2,730	4,697	8,786	15,475
	Skotos	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,580	11,826	20,225	33,765	55,634	86,434
	Jal-nib-rek	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	24	86	194	508	1,531
	Herbi	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	548	1,374	2,877	5,672	12,970
	Noon/Midnight	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	339	1,199	2,560	4,467	9,420
	Vorki	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	3,956	11,074	22,953	37,508
	Lil' zik	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,783	4,644	10,805
	Ikkle hydra	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	2,483	10,589	23,413
	Sraracha	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1,027	5,635
	Smolcano	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	7,123
	Youngllef	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	614	9,946
	Little nightmare	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	4,076	4,028
	Lil' creator/Lil' destructor	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	7,675
	Tiny tempor	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	9,825

Changes

Date	Changes
30 August 2023 (update)	Hotfix Pets no longer get exploded or take damage from explosions within the Path of Apmeken.
2 February 2023 (update)	It's no longer possible for a player to exploit a bug with Temple Trekking to have multiple pets out simultaneously.
22 June 2022 (update | poll)	One-off pets are now automatically insured by Probita upon receiving one. Players who've paid the insurance fee of 500,000 coins prior to this update will have the fees paid added to Probita's reclaim fee coffer, which can then be used as a discount towards any further reclaims. For example, if players insured two pets for 500,000 coins each, they will be given one free reclaim token, and if five were insured, they will be given two free reclaim tokens and a 500,000 coins discount towards the next reclaim token purchase.
6 October 2016 (update)	Talking to various NPCs in Tale of Two Cats/Icthlarin's Little Helper quests while other pets are visible displays the correct dialogue.
28 April 2016 (update | poll)	Call pet button has been added to force your follower to appear next to you. You will now receive a message if you would have obtained the pet on that kill, only if you already own the boss pet.
5 November 2015 (update | poll)	Four skilling pets have been added. A beaver for Woodcutting, rock golem for Mining, heron for Fishing, and a baby chinchompa for Hunter.
30 April 2015 (update)	Pets now follow you up and down the Motherlode Mine's ladder.
9 April 2015 (update | poll)	The 'talk to' option is now the left-click option for boss pets rather than 'pick up'. Dialogue added for the chaos elemental pet, dark core pet and chompy bird pet.
21 August 2014 (update | poll)	Pet insurance is added to the game.
15 May 2014 (update)	The options on other players' pets are no longer visible.

Trivia

• When a pet is in the inventory as an item, its name may be incorrectly capitalised; this is because all items in Old School RuneScape use ucfirst capitalisation, wherein the first letter of a string is capitalised, but the rest is not. For example, as an inventory item, TzTok-Jad's pet is called Tzrek-jad, but as a follower it's called TzRek-Jad.
• Players cannot go underwater if they have a pet following them or in their inventory, with the exception of pet kraken and pet chaos elemental. Furthermore, while many pets can be obtained underwater, Tangleroot, Phoenix, and Bloodhound can be more easily obtained there, but they cannot be taken back once the player leaves.