Pet abilities

A hunter pet can have different abilities, depending on its pet specialization. Each specialization is generally focused around a specific role. Cunning has high utility and is good in PvP. Ferocity is focused on DPS and is good in dungeons and raids. Tenacity is focused on pet survival and threat generation; good for soloing.
Each pet family—or beast type—has a special ability; some have a bonus ability. Some pet families are only usable by Beast Mastery hunters and have an exotic ability.
Damaging pet abilities scale with the pet's melee attack power or bonus spell damage. Physical abilities generally gain bonus damage equal to 7% of the pet's melee attack power, while spell abilities generally gain bonus damage equal to 1/3 of the pet's bonus spell damage. See the attack power coefficient article for further details.
==General abilities==
===Universal abilities===
Ability 	Focus 	Range	Cooldown	Description
Avoidance (passive)	Passive	n/a 	n/a 	Reduces the damage your pet takes from area of effect attacks by an additional 80%. Reduces the range at which enemies detect your pet.
Dash (pet ability) 	0 	n/a 	20 sec 	Increases your pet's movement speed by 80% for 10 sec.
Growl (pet ability)	0 	30 	8 sec 	Your pet growls at the target, generating threat, taunting the target to attack the pet.
===Basic attacks===
These abilities are also known as focus dumps because they are often used to expend excess focus while more efficient or useful abilities are on cooldown. Each pet has one. The differences between these are cosmetic; they are effectively the same.
Ability 	Used by 	Focus	Range	Description
Bite 	Basilisk, Bat, Beetle, Blood Beast, Boar, Camel, Carapid, Carrion Bird, Chimaera, Core Hound, Crocolisk, Devilsaur, Direhorn, Dragonhawk, Feathermane, Fox, Hound, Hydra, Hyena, Lizard, Mechanical, Pterrordax, Ravager, Ray, Riverbeast, Serpent, Shale Beast, Spider, Stone Hound, Turtle, Warp Stalker, Water Strider, Wind Serpent, Wolf, Worm	25 	5 yd 	Bite the enemy, causing X damage. Deals 100% more damage and costs 100% more Focus when your pet has 50 or more Focus.
Claw (pet ability)	Aqiri, Bear, Bird of Prey, Cat, Crab, Lesser Dragonkin, Raptor, Rodent, Scorpid, Spirit Beast, Tallstrider 	25 	5 yd 	Claw the enemy, causing X damage. Deals 100% more damage and costs 100% more Focus when your pet has 50 or more Focus.
Smack 	Clefthoof, Courser, Gorilla, Gruffhorn, Mammoth, Monkey, Moth, Oxen, Scalehide, Sporebat, Stag, Toad, Wasp, Waterfowl 	25 	5 yd 	Smack the enemy, causing X damage. Deals 100% more damage and costs 100% more Focus when your pet has 50 or more Focus.
==Pet specialization abilities== 
===Cunning abilities===
Ability 	Focus 	Range	Cooldown	Description
Master's Call	0 	40 yd	45 sec 	Your pet removes all root and movement impairing effects from itself and a friendly target, and grants immunity to all such effects for 4 sec.
Pathfinding 	Passive	n/a 	n/a 	You and your pet gain 8% increased movement speed.
===Ferocity abilities===
Ability 	Focus 	Range	Cooldown	Description
Predator's Thirst	Passive	n/a 	n/a 	You and your pet gain 10% Leech.
Primal Rage 	0 	n/a 	6 min 	Increases haste by 30% for all party and raid members for 40 sec. Allies receiving this effect will become Sated and unable to benefit from Primal Rage or similar effects again for 10 min.
===Tenacity abilities===
Ability 	Focus 	Range	Cooldown	Description
Endurance Training 	Passive	n/a 	n/a 	You and your pet gain 5% increased maximum health.
Fortitude of the Bear	0 	n/a 	2 min 	Increase the maximum health of you and your pet by 20% for 10 sec.
==Family-specific abilities==
Family 	Special Ability 	Exotic Ability 	Bonus Ability 	Basic Attack 	Notes
Basilisk 	Petrifying Gaze 	 	 	Bite 	
Bat 	Sonic Screech 	 	 	Bite 	
Bear 	Thick Fur 	 	Rest (pet ability) 	Claw (pet ability)	
Beetle 	Harden Carapace 	 	 	Bite 	
Bird of Prey 	Talon Rend 	 	Trick 	Claw (pet ability)	
Blood Beast 	Blood Bolt 	 	 	Bite 	
Boar 	Bristle 	 	 	Bite 	
Camel 	Hardy 	 	 	Bite 	
Carrion Bird 	Bloody Screech 	 	 	Bite 	
Cat 	Catlike Reflexes (honor talent)	 	Prowl (pet ability)	Claw (pet ability)	
Clefthoof 	Thick Hide (pet ability) 	Blood of the Rhino	 	Smack 	
Courser 	Fleethoof 	 	 	Smack 	
Crab 	Pin 	 	 	Claw (pet ability)	
Crocolisk 	Ankle Crack 	 	 	Bite 	
Direhorn 	Gore (pet ability) 	 	 	Bite 	
Dragonhawk 	Dragon's Guile 	 	 	Bite 	
Feathermane 	Feather Flurry 	 	Updraft 	Bite 	
Fox 	Agile Reflexes 	 	Play 	Bite 	
Gorilla 	Silverback 	 	 	Smack 	
Gruffhorn 	Gruff (pet ability) 	 	 	Smack 	
Hound 	Lock Jaw 	 	 	Bite 	
Hydra 	Acid Bite 	 	 	Bite 	
Hyena 	Infected Bite 	 	 	Bite 	
Lesser Dragonkin	Shimmering Scales 	 	 	Claw (pet ability)	
Lizard 	Grievous Bite 	 	 	Bite 	
Mammoth 	Trample 	 	 	Smack 	
Mechanical 	Defense Matrix 	 	 	Bite 	
Monkey 	Primal Agility 	 	 	Smack 	
Moth 	Serenity Dust 	 	 	Smack 	
Oxen 	Niuzao's Fortitude 	 	 	Smack 	
Raptor 	Savage Rend 	 	 	Claw (pet ability)	
Ravager 	Ravage (pet abilty) 	 	 	Bite 	
Ray 	Nether Energy 	 	 	Bite 	
Riverbeast 	Gruesome Bite 	 	 	Bite 	
Rodent 	Gnaw (rodent pet ability) 	 	Rest (pet ability) 	Claw (pet ability)	
Scalehide 	Scale Shield 	 	 	Smack 	
Scorpid 	Deadly Sting 	 	 	Claw (pet ability)	
Serpent 	Serpent's Swiftness 	 	 	Bite 	
Shale Beast 	Solid Shell 	Shimmering Shale 	 	Bite 	
Spider 	Web Spray 	 	 	Bite 	
Spirit Beast 	Spirit Pulse 	Spirit Mend 	Spirit Walk 	Claw (pet ability)	
Sporebat 	Spore Cloud 	 	 	Smack 	
Stag 	Nature's Grace (pet ability) 	 	 	Smack 	
Stone Hound 	Stone Armor 	Eternal Guardian 	 	Bite 	
Tallstrider 	Dust Cloud 	 	 	Claw (pet ability)	
Toad 	Swarm of Flies (pet ability) 	 	 	Smack 	
Turtle 	Shell Shield 	 	 	Bite 	
Warp Stalker 	Warp Time 	 	 	Bite 	
Wasp 	Toxic Sting 	 	 	Smack 	
Waterfowl 	Oiled Feathers 	 	Trick 	Smack 	
Water Strider 	Soothing Waters (pet ability) 	Surface Trot 	 	Bite 	
Wind Serpent 	Winged Agility 	 	 	Bite 	
Wolf 	Furious Bite 	 	 	Bite 	
Worm 	Acid Spit 	Burrow Attack 	 	Bite 	
===Exotic family-specific abilities===
Family 	Pet ID	Type 	Basic Attack 	Exotic Ability 	Special Ability 	Bonus Ability	Notes
Aqir 	41 	Cunning 	Claw (pet ability)	Dune Strider 	Tendon Rip 	 	
*Added in Wrath of the Lich King
*Renamed from Silithid in Shadowlands
Carapid 	292 	Tenacity	Bite 	Calcified Carapace	Bulwark (pet ability)	 	
*Added in BfA
*Renamed from Krolusk in Shadowlands
Chimera 	38 	Ferocity	Bite 	Froststorm Breath 	Frost Breath 	 	Added in Wrath of the Lich King
Core Hound	45 	Ferocity	Bite 	Molten Hide 	Obsidian Skin 	 	Added in Wrath of the Lich King
Devilsaur 	39 	Ferocity	Bite 	Feast 	Monstrous Bite 	 	Added in Wrath of the Lich King
Pterrordax	290 	Cunning 	Bite 	Updraft 	Ancient Hide 	 	Added in BfA
==Patch changes==
Originally, there were 6 basic pet abilities: Bite, Claw, Cower, Growl, Dash and Dive. 
* v1.8.0 added eight more
* v1.9.0 added 3 more.
* v2.1.0 added 2 more.
* v3.0.2 removed all previous skills and replaced it with a pet talent system.
* v5.0.4 removed pet talent system and replaced it with pet specialization system.
* v7.0.3 removed pet raid buffs.
==See also==