Dark Whelpling

Fun to bring out during an Onyxia raid- "Help! I have a whelp on me!"

I had this on my orc hunter back when it was called the tiny black whelpling. A friend had given it as a gift before they quit. It always made me a little sad because it was bound to the hunter and I wanted it on my more active character, and current persona Snowight. So a while ago i log into the hunter looking to pilfer her for mats, the name change must have unbound it! I moved it over immediately and this pet is out pretty often.

This was the first whelpling I have ever gotten. I got it in that little pathway in the badlands, and boy was I excited! I ended up farming it once again in the same area for a friend as a surprise, and got yet one more as well for selling on the AH. I have tried farming this on numerous other characters in dustwallow marsh but no luck. I seem to have had much better luck in the badlands, if this helps anyone who is sick of trying in dustwallow =)

There's always a surreal feeling that you get when it's been a long grind for a pet.. like you're sleep deprived and slightly confused at what's happened, then it hits you! That's how I felt after finally getting this guy to drop. He's still one of my favourites

i think farming it in badland would be the wiser of the 2 places. being that the ONY raid is back and running for 80's there are more people in the zone, IMO

Definitely use the area in South East Badlands if you want to farm this pet. By the time I'd finished either the north or south cluster of whelps, the other was mostly respawned.

I farmed with a level 80 protection paladin, no issues whatsoever, the only problem I can see someone having would be if you're low enough to be bugged by the elites in the middle.

This pet is pretty fun from an RP perspective. I mean owning a baby member of the black dragon flight? Epic indeed.

I had great success with farming the dark whelp in the Badlands. So far it dropped the quickest of all the whelps for me. Maybe that's just luck...but the Badlands has a fairly easy path to run.

Got this one today, after having killed a whopping 734 whelps over the last few days. Such a gorgeous little thing, who looks very good with blood elves indeed.

Now to farm for the last two. Blah, frost resistant mobs...

As Darias mentioned, the Badlands (Lethlor Ravine) is the easiest place. Also, if you have mining, there's some gold and diamond nodes there. While I was farming these Whelplings, people would run through to to the mining nodes, leaving the Whelplings for me.
The problem Dustwallow Marsh is that they are so spread apart that it makes them very cumbersome to find.

you gotta watch out in dustwallow it only drops off whelps most of the ones in dustwallow are "hatchling"s and it won't drop off those

My husband and I farmed this baby for 4 hours :( i thought i would never get it!! we were faced with competing against other people trying to farm in the Badlands. I was getting discouraged. My husband convinced me to keep going.

4 hours later, he says "lets quit, im getting tired" and i agreed..though i was a little disappointed.

but come to find out, he got it and just wanted to surprise me. I love this whelping!! its very cute. Hope it takes you guys less time to farm than it took me!

After ignoring farming these for ages due to stories of painful hours of hunting, I was questing in the area (for Loremaster) and decided to give it a half hearted attempt. On about my 8th kill it dropped! Yay!

The 4 whelplings are among my favorite pets of all, I've farmed all 4 of them and I must admit the Black one is my favorite which makes it all the more sad that it's lost it's place on the top 10 in favor of some rather...uninspired opponents.
Hopefully in the near future the Bronze whelp will be available so all the flights can be acquired at last.

I was very lucky with this little guy. I got him after only 123 kills. I tried the searing whelps in Dustwallow first, but saw here that the Badland whelps were recommended. After only 93 scalding whelps, I got him. Thanks for the great advice!