Fhina's Comments

The pink bow makes me sad - it's more like a deformed blob that peeks out from under his chin.  It looks more like a doggie "Columbian neck tie," but with careful camera turning and zooming in, I was able to understand (because someone here identified it) that's supposed to be (but imho epically fails to be) a bow.  Blizz couldn't manage better than that?  He'd be better off without the bow, frankly.

 

On the plus side, Tito sits and howls up at the sky when you summon him which I find super cute.  The tornado (complete with Dorothy's house) that spits him up in the air is hysterical, although it seems very infrequent. 

I actually posted a "suggestion" in-game to Blizzard taking them to task for mocking pet collectors with such a lazy "reward" - and asking them to change the reward entirely or at least upgrade it.  How hard is it to at least do a simple recolor?  Even then it would have been a lousy reward, but at least a tiny bit less of an insult. H/B breed ID?  Ugh.  Well, did they at least give it to us as a level 25, since the reward is for leveling pets to 25?  NOPE.  Does it "sing" like the Singing Sunflower?  Nope.  Not worth leveling or displaying; frankly, I get annoyed just thinking about this pet, nvm displaying it.  Only worth having to round out one's collection.

Easiest way to find them is to park in the Southern Barrens when they announce a server reset and fly around with a "/tar giraffe calf" macro immediately after the server comes back up.  I've still only managed to get a green "Uncommon" quality Giraffe Calf (after about 15-20 poor), but it beats flying around for hours and killing mobs to get one, when there will be a good half dozen up after a server reset.

They shrank him. One of the coolest things about him was how big he is (was /cry), and now he even looks small standing next to my goblin. :(

Got my Murkimus today (Thrall-US Server) so if you were due one, I would open a ticket.

Has a nifty swimming annimation - appropriately creepy (I don't like bugs). Looks great when used with "Blessing of the Old God" or the Ultramarine Qiraji Battle Tank and Pendant of the Scarab Storm - all of which I am lucky to have!

Have him on a few of my characters, but have only upgraded with an Argent Pony Bridle on one character. I will probably wait at this point to see if the bridle upgrade is account-wide, so I won't have to "pony up" the 150 tokens for the rest of my characters!

If anyone has him on Beta, I'd love to hear if the Bridle is account wide or only the Gruntling!

Just summoned him post 4.3 patch and he's significantly larger from what I remember, in addition to missing his festive gear and red nose. I like the larger size, but wish he got to keep his holiday look all year instead of just during Winter Veil.

Kibler doesn't offer the quest anymore. WoWhead says "Kibler's Exotic Pets" is no longer in the game. Any idea if one can still get this or the (also dead) En-Ay-Es-Tee-Why pet some other way?