Turquoise Turtle

I was hoping not to be in the same boat as the two previous posts and luck was smiling on me. I made one round of the spawn areas, killing any spawns that were common or poor and was about halfway through my second trip when I was attacked by a pvp'er from the opposite faction. After dispatching with him, my second Turquoise was rare. Luckily, I was not re-engaged by the pvp'er and caught the sneaky rare!  (A PVP interruption happened once in Hellfire and I lost the rare). Caught at 43, 60.

Right now, I'm wholly in Miusleeping's camp, except for the hallucination about having caught a rare.  One and a quarter times around about the whole of Azshara, bored now.  I am the Turtle Decimator, leveller of Critters off the corpses of the shelled.  One tour of Bilgewater itself, then I'm going to do my dailies.

Why are the commonest spawns the most annoying rares to find?

After 2 days of several hours, and leveling a couple of hundred of my 450 some odd pets (some twice), I've come to the conclusion that there aren't any rares and those of you who claim to have them are delusional with great imaginations. Wish I had a great imagination. :(

The boredom of hours and hours of pet battles must be causing hallucinatations because I'm thinking I have a rare at last. I'm taking a nap and if I wake and its still with me, I'll know its my imagination this time.

Finally got my rare after 33 poor 1 common 29 uncommon. His name is Leonardo. he rounds out my spiny terrapin (michelangelo), Emerald Turtle (Raphael), softshell snapling (Donatello) and Giant Sewer Rat (Splinter).

Got my rare on the beach my the Ruins of Eldarath after about 4 fights. There were plenty around and I can confirm that sometimes Twilight Spiders are their secondaries.

Found a HERD of them wondering around the shattered strand in Azshara! Easy Peasy!

Grey

3

White

3

1

got an uncommon first try, but am going to see if i cant get a rare, he is adorable good luck. got mine at the ruined reaches where the little gnomes are. (uncommon)

update: an hour later for farming, i got my rare just under the horde harbor sigh what a pain lol

good luck

Found my rare around bilgewater harbor

found my rare out northeast of Ravencrest Monument on the islands (Azshara). also got a  rare Twilight Spider as a secondary to a poor quality Turquoise Turtle earlier in the same area.

Edit: added zone

I love this little guy, took me about 4 or 5 tries to get my rare and he really kicks butt! 

I just got this cutie lil joker!! Love the shell and eye color. Took me about 15ish to get a rare.

Found mine at The Shattered Strand.

took nearly *30* battles to get anything higher than a common! 

You can fine these around Bilgewater Harbor.  You can also find these on the beach just Southwest of the Darnassian Base Camp