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Brown Prairie Dog

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Brown Prairie Dog
Brown Prairie Dog
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Vendor: Halpa, Naleen

Zone: Mulgore - Thunder Bluff

Cost: 50silver (unlimited supply)

Prairie Dog Whistle
Prairie Dog Whistle
Binds when used
Use: Teaches you how to summon this companion.
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A complex system of burrows protects the prairie dog from its neighbors' massive hooves.
Uncommon
Yes
Horde Horde (tauren)
Ground

Grooms face and pops up to look around.

Vocalizations (on-click)

None
3 allowed
April 1, 2007

Halpa can be found in a small shop to the southeast along the main path that encircles the middle bluff. This pet is only sold to horde characters. Alliance characters may purchase this pet through a neutral auction house and on occasion through their own auction house.

The Brown Prairie Dog is a trainable pet in Mists of Pandaria. However, only Tauren are offered this option from Battle Pet Trainers. Once learned, all characters will have access to this pet.

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Quality
Breed:Learn about breeds 
Level 0: Health 0Power 0Speed 0
Chomp
Requires Pet Level: 1

Chomps on the enemy, dealing 394 Critter damage.

Vs. Undead
Vs. Humanoid
Comeback
Requires Pet Level: 10

Deals 295 Critter damage.

 

Deals 197 additional damage if the user has lower health than the target.

Vs. Undead
Vs. Humanoid
Adrenaline Rush
Requires Pet Level: 2

Deals 197 Critter damage and increases your speed by 75% for 3 rounds.

Vs. Undead
Vs. Humanoid
Crouch
3 Round Cooldown
Requires Pet Level: 15

The user lowers its body close to the ground, reducing all damage taken by 50% for 2 rounds.

Leap
Requires Pet Level: 4

Instantly deals 295 Beast damage and increases your speed by 100% for 1 round.

Vs. Critter
Vs. Flying
Burrow
4 Round Cooldown
Requires Pet Level: 20

Burrow under the ground, becoming unattackable for one round.

 

On the next round, you attack, dealing 689 Beast damage.

Vs. Critter
Vs. Flying
Critter

Passive:

Critters break out of crowd control effects more quickly.

Damage Taken:

50% from Beast abilites.
33% from Elemental abilites.
Thunder Bluff — Kalimdor
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Aranyszin 
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As with a number of other purchasable pets, this is one that will present a variety of breeds at random. I would submit that, as he has no real "power" option available, make the most of his speedy breed - the 5,15 breed (which presents as 148 / 9 / 13 at level 1 uncommon) will provide 1400 health, 244 power and a respectable 341 speed at level 25 rare. The extra speed could let you choose crouch instead of adrenaline rush, upping your survivability. 

Mar 18, 2013 at 3:21pm | Edits: 0 | Stormrage-US | Pets: 519 Compare collections | Score: 2620
Manapala 
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bought this in AH for about 2-5 gold , never use it just 1 to add to the ach's , also the dogs graphical desgin needs updating
Jul 30, 2012 at 5:14pm | Edits: 0 | Aerie Peak-EU | Pets: 19 Compare collections | Score: 0
Top RaterLindele 
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A fun fact about the prairie dog. Back when WoW was still a new game, this pet would occationally run far, far away from it's owner and inevitably agro some sort of mob. It would then either run back or be killed, thus dropping the mob onto the pet's owner. I always fun this to be great fun and I was sad when they removed that aspect of the pet. Tanaris was oh so dangerous for prairie dogs; those hyeenas loved to kill them.
Jan 7, 2011 at 12:04am | Edits: 0 | Cenarion Circle-US | Pets: 437 Compare collections | Score: 1984
Happybunns 
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A surprisingly rare pet, this guy is hard to spot since he is one of the smallest pets around, I think second only to the strand crawler. I've never played a tauren, but he looks great with my female troll shaman, Shamazon, because of the size difference and of course any pet looks great with a gnome. He is one of my favorites, and there is a RFK quest where you can summon about 4 big ones all at once, which are leveled to you, oddly. If you are level 80 these marmots have 1000's of hp.
May 28, 2010 at 12:52am | Edits: 1 | Undermine-US | Pets: 154 Compare collections | Score: 0
Rawrshackles 
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I only just bought this pet (the city vendors are sneakily well hidden) and haven't had the chance to bring him out yet. I just added the random pet macro though, so he'll get his share of the limelight :)
May 12, 2010 at 4:47am | Edits: 0 | Bloodhoof-US | Pets: 92 Compare collections | Score: 0
Zinzwaz 
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Of the faction pets, this was the hardest to get as Halpa is well hidden behind some tents. This lend credence that there ARE Tauren Rogues, but they're just so good that we can't see them.
Dec 13, 2009 at 10:34pm | Edits: 0 | Gilneas-US | Pets: 106 Compare collections | Score: 0
Lrr 
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Despite being one of the easier pets to obtain, I found this one to be one of the cuter pets. The facial grooming is really adorable and fairly frequent, and I rarely see other Alliance players with a prairie dog out. I still commonly have people ask where to obtain it.
Oct 17, 2009 at 5:09pm | Edits: 0 | Gnomeregan-US | Pets: 405 Compare collections | Score: 1639
Site AdminDoobjanka 
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This pet just doesn't seem to fit as well as the other town pets fit. A Plainstrider or Baby Kodo might have been a better choice.
Sep 27, 2009 at 5:03pm | Edits: 0 | Madoran-US | Pets: 544 Compare collections | Score: 2766
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Prairie dogs are very small — possibly the smallest pets available. I find them to be the perfect size for a gnome like me! Ironically, they’re sold by the tauren, the largest race in Azeroth. I weep for the prairie dogs that are regularly smooshed by clumsy tauren. Come to think of it, I weep for the gnomes that are regularly smooshed by clumsy tauren. Poor Binky...

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