Red Cricket

Don't overlook this awesome battle pet. This pet is insanely OP, and has 15 AP at level 1. This thing hits like a ton of bricks, even on pet families that are weak against its abilities.

Also, it's self Heal, Nature's Touch, often crits and heals for way more than the tooltip says. The same goes for their DPS abilities. Mine is currently level 9, but I am leveling it rapidly.

Grinding rep with Sho is totally worth it for this beastly critter.

Well, the new patch hit, my poor cricket got changed to Rare, yay!  But now it's no longer a giant pet.... sigh.  I'd take the giant poor cricket and grind for a battle stone any day!

As of the 5.1 patch, the Red Cricket is no longer freakishly huge and is the same size of the other cricket pets.

I learned my red cricket today, and he was poor.  I am very sad.

I just got him and it doesn't say the quality.  In fact it doesn't say any quality for any of my companion pets   However the stats correspond to uncommon with the calculator. I don't understand why all the ones you get with quests are not "rare" quality.  It is harder to get them and this one cannot be traded. 

I am ending up releasing most of the ones I get in battles.  Only to lvl 7 in battles but I have to say it is not very satisfying.  I liked getting pets the old way better. 

To the people who are confused about the quality of this pet: the item that teaches you the pet that is mailed by Sho in a chirping package is always rare quality. But when you learn it, it can show up in your journal in any quality, depending on RNG. So far I've gotten two alts exalted with Sho and the crickets are poor and common.

In addition to this pet being physically massive, it is also has the highest Power of any Battle Pet.

The description isn't joking when it says he will eat your crops.

Bah, my random drop was poor quality.  Guess I'll have to upgrade him manually.

This pet is HUGE. And it moves by jumping. It certainly won't get unnoticed.

Best way to farm rep with Sho is by bringing her 5 Eternal Blossom Fish (made of 5 Jade Lungfish + 25 Striped Melon) each day. She's located at 29.6, 30.6 in Valley of the Four Winds if she's not at Halfhill Market. (When I asked Gina Mudclaw for Sho's location, she gave me different coordinates, which were wrong.)

Though it's listed as a rare item, I confirmed with a GM that the pet quality is random. I opened a ticket after a guildie got a rare and I got a poor one. :( Sucks.

How come Warcraft Pets shows the Red Cricket as Rare, and mine is Uncommon.

pet is huge in its normal state feed some pet biscuts to it it groves to boss size, no wonder, the size of the veggys must have an seruis impact on the pet size just look at the (rabbits)

Something to note is that unless im mistaken, or its rep dependant, The main NPC's that give out the dailys rotate, which is why they move location. You get extra rep with the ones that are rotated in while they are active. Farming the "dark soil" patches is also an easy way to get rep with her when you loot lovely apples. The dark soil spawns often in the heartland in vof and they can be easily seen while flying.