[Devil]

Hawk (Redtail)*
Availability: 6
Cost: 500¥
Lifestyle Required:Middle
Additional Lifestyle Cost: 100¥

* Purebred, non-cloned, luxury, or exotic varieties are available.
Costs for these are much higher than the standard or cloned variety.

Here's his birdly stats:

Eagle Owl
B A R S C I L W EDG ESS Init IP
1 4 3 1 2 4 2 2 0 6 7 1
Frequency: Common
Movement: 20/60 (flight)
Skills: Flight 3, Perception 3, Tracking 2, Unarmed Combat 2
Powers: Natural Weapon (Bite/Claw: DV 2P, AP 0), Enhanced
Senses (Low-Light)
Similar Animals: Hawk

[Usda Beph]

Heres the fuzzer's stats.

African Wild Dog
B A R S C I L W EDG ESS Init IP
2 3 3 2 3 3 2 3 0 6 6 1
Frequency: Common
Movement: 10/50
Skills: Infiltration 2, Perception 2, Tracking 2, Unarmed Combat 3
Powers: Enhanced Senses (Smell), Natural Weapon (Bite: DV
2P, AP 0)
Wolf Hybrid (including breeds such as Malamute, Husky, and
Wolfhound): Intimidation 2, Logic 1

Cool! Koan is almost as logical as I am!

[Codac]

Woo stat blocks thank you Joker.

[Angelone]

BRodda over on Dumpshock posted this earlier. http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=33158

[Usda Beph]

LOL Chiwahwa(sp?) The best burgaler alarm ever invented!

[Devil]

LOL Chiwahwa(sp?) The best burgaler alarm ever invented!

Chihuahua.

God I @#$%@#$ hate those things. Worst breed ever...

Theres already stats for them in running wild. Don't really see the point of that guy's thread. I guess for fun.

400th Post Spectacular!!! Everyone gets a Joker Smiley! Collect them all.

[Kontact]

Alternately, for hawky goodness, there's the Entertainment Systems Falcon (Aerial Pet Drone) from p118-119 of Arsenal.

Only 59,000¥ at availability 16 and you won't have to learn Animal Husbandry! 

[Angelone]

And you won't get pooped on! Stupid birds Unfortunately someone could hack it and have it poke your eyes out.

[Chaotic Insane]

In reference to fluffy (Koan, most likely, if it is Dad's old Malamute) playing fetch with bombs... There were the Russian Anti-Tank dogs that the Russians made the mistake of training using their own tanks. They set the bomb-laden dogs loose on the battlefield... and then the dogs ran under their own tanks and blew up.

... oops.

[Angelone]

I would have loved to see the look on the guy in charge of that trainings face. Wow, that's just wow.

[Frostriese]

Oh, by the way, while were on topic: Running Wild gives some prices for some pet species, but Ive wondered about a Quicksilver Mongoose. Hell, even the description in the ancient Paranormal Animals of Europe back then makes them sound like good pets (and pest control). So, does anybody have any ideas what such an animal would cost?

[Devil]

Okay, it would depend. I don't know anything about quicksilver mongooses, but I can tell you about awakened animals. They are generally between 4 and 20 times the price of the unawakened version.

A ferret shares almost all it's stats with a mongoose, so we'll start with that.
Ferret
Cost: 250 nuyen
Rating: -
Lifestyle: Middle or higher. 25 Nuyen a month upkeep.

Now lets look at the difference between a comparable common awakened animal and it's unawakened counterpart

Cat
Cost: 50
Rating: -
Lifestyle: Squatter/25

Blackberry Cat
Cost: 1,000
Rating: 6F
Lifestyle: Squatter/25

Aside from the considerable cost difference, you might also note that all awakened animals are either restricted or forbidden to have as pets. Whether they are forbidden or not seems to be dependent on whether they are endangered, whether they cause problems in urban areas, and various things like that.

[Frostriese]

Well, PAoE says they are kept as pets en masse in the slums of Madrid and Sevilla. So I guess QMs dont need to be all that expensive - but then I guess slums dont exactly have many (enforced) restrictions, and non-slum dwellers might not like their QMs to sustain themselves on devil rats alone, heh. Still, there is quite some difference between a blackberry cat and a quicksilver mongoose - I mean, those kitties are nearly sapient. (Cant remember if they in fact have the sapience power). And the QMs seem rather undangerous and even beneficial.

That being said, say 4-8 times the Ferret price for a non-slum bred and non-semiferal QM seems reasonable.

[Devil]

Well unless you intend to only stay in the area they are native to, you will probably need to decide on a standard Availablity for them. I suggest 9R or somewhere around there.