Summoning - Pets

Unlike cats and pet rocks, not all pets can be obtained from quests, some can only be earned by hard work. As your Summoning level increases, you will find yourself able to care for a larger range of pets.

Unlike familiars, you do not have to have your pets out, and can put them in your inventory where they will snooze happily until you decide to bring them out again. Each type of pet has different needs, of course, so you should examine the following table carefully to make sure your pet doesn't tire of you and run away.

Some pets will take an extraordinarily long time to mature, and most will only eat specific food. In most cases, you should be able to purchase the food you need from a pet shop.

You can only have one of each type of pet at one time (unless you have a menagerie in your player-owned house); so, if you have a monkey you cannot trap another one. You can only have one follower (pet or familiar) out at a time. In addition to this, the number of pets you can have increases with your Summoning level. To start with, you can have two pets, and you will be able to have another two pets for every ten Summoning levels you have. For example, if you are level 37, you could have up to 8 pets.

Note: The pets caught using the Hunter skill are the baby versions - you cannot catch an adult monkey to have as a pet, for instance.

Pet	Summoning Level Required	Source	Notes	Number of colours	Adult Form
Bulldog	4	Pet shops	Eats raw meat (not fish)	3
Dalmatian	4	Pet shops	Eats raw meat (not fish)	3
Greyhound	4	Pet shops	Eats raw meat (not fish)	3
Labrador	4	Pet shops	Eats raw meat (not fish)	3
Sheepdog	4	Pet shops	Eats raw meat (not fish)	3
Terrier	4	Pet shops	Eats raw meat (not fish)	3
Abyssal minion	4	Slayer and Soul Wars	Eats ashes	1	N/A
Baby basilisk	4	Slayer and Soul Wars	Eats eye of newt	1	N/A
Baby kurask	4	Slayer and Soul Wars	Eats bones	1	N/A
Creeping hand	4	Slayer and Soul Wars	Eats leather gloves	1	N/A
Minitrice	4	Slayer and Soul Wars	Eats limpwurt root	1	N/A
Rune guardian	4	Rune Mechanics	Energises at any rune altar	1	N/A
Tooth creature	4	A Fairy Tale Part III - Battle at Orks Rift	Milk or chocolate milk	2 (Healthy/diseased)
Gecko	10	Caught using Hunter	Eats flies as a baby Eats flies and beetle bits when adult	5
Platypus	10	Caught using Hunter	Eats raw fish and ground Fishing bait as a baby Eats raw fish and Fishing bait when adult You must have completed As a First Resort to keep a platypus as a pet	3
Broav	23	While Guthix Sleeps	Eats Mort Myre mushrooms	1	N/A
Penguin	30	Available from Ardougne Zoo	Egg must be incubated at a pet shop Eats raw fish	3
Giant crab	40	Purchased from mogres	Eats raw fish	5
Raven	50	Birds' nests	Egg must be incubated at a pet shop Eats ground Fishing bait as a chick Eats Fishing bait when adult	6
Squirrel	60	Caught using Hunter	Eats nuts	5
Guthix raptor *	70	Birds' nests	Egg must be incubated at a pet shop Eats ground Fishing bait as a chick Eats Fishing bait when older	1
Saradomin owl *	70	Birds' nests	Egg must be incubated at a pet shop Eats ground Fishing bait as a chick Eats Fishing bait when older	1
Zamorak hawk *	70	Birds' nests	Egg must be incubated at a pet shop Eats ground Fishing bait as a chick Eats Fishing bait when older	1
Cute phoenix eggling	72	Phoenix Lair	Eats ashes	1	N/A
Mean phoenix eggling	72	Phoenix Lair	Eats ashes	1	N/A
Raccoon	80	Caught using Hunter	Eats raw meat and fish	3
Vulture	85	Vulture drop	Egg must be incubated at a pet shop Eats ground Fishing bait as a chick Eats Fishing bait when adult	6
Chameleon	90	Eggs can be found on Cairn Isle	Egg must be incubated at a pet shop Eats flies	10
Monkey	95	Caught using Hunter	Eats bananas	10
Baby dragon	99	Dragon drop	Egg must be incubated at a pet shop Eats vast quantities of raw meat, fish or chicken	4

^* Note that, unlike most other pets, the Guthix raptor, Saradomin owl and Zamorak hawk all have three stages of growth: chick, bird and raptor/owl/hawk.





As mentioned in the introduction, you are only able to have one of each type of pet at a time (e.g. one type of dog, one type of monkey, one type of dragon, etc), and a limited number of pets in total (depending on your Summoning level, up to a maximum of 20). That is, unless you have a menagerie...

Avid pet and home owners gain the ability to build a menagerie in their player-owned house at level 37 Construction. The pet house/feeder that you can build in this room allows you to store either three, six or ten fully grown pets at once, and any pets stored in your menagerie DO NOT count towards either the pet type or maximum totals.

For instance, you could capture one monkey, then store it in your menagerie and capture a second monkey, and so on until you have ten monkies stored in your menagerie. Pets stored in the menagerie are not considered to be owned, but you are still subject to ownership limitations - i.e. you could have ten pets in your menagerie and up to a further twenty in your bank/inventory; also, you could fill your menagerie with monkeys, but only have one monkey in your bank/inventory or out at any one time.

As such, you would not be able to have ten monkeys in your menagerie, and one in your inventory, and be able to swap them around, as this would break these limitations. You would have to release the one in your inventory before taking out any from your menagerie. On the flip side, you could use your menagerie to store, say, one of each god bird, and only take out the one you need at that moment.

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