Hai, I'm new at WoW and I'm a: lvl 6 - Blood Elf (male) - Paladin. When do I get a pet? (an animal to ride on?)

theres a few different catagories i should break down here as far as what you might be lableing as pets.
1. nuetral pets, which are simple fluff items, like dogs,cats,small birds,snakes, and tons of others.These are obtained threw the auction house, or certain special shops, and some from quests. These pets have no purpose other then looking cool.

2. Next, i should explain that the class called Hunters can "tame" (capture) certain animal monsters, and then use them as there personal attack helpers, the more you use them the more they lvl up with you.

3 Last but not least, it would seem by your post that you seemed to mix up the rideable animals as "pets", but in the game they are reffred to as "Mounts". These are special,larger animals that u can ride on to improve your travel speed. The 1st 1 you can optain is at lvl 40, and is kinda slow,and sense your a paladin, you will have to do a special quest to get your mount, but other classes and races can just buy the skill and the mount at 40. You get you next mount at lvl 60, and its much faster. If you play to lvl 70 you can then obtain the flying mounts in the Outlands.

Oke, thanx.

np have fun ^^

I wonder if they make the new types of mounts those siege types for the new combat area.

Common question for new players... lol.. Use word Mount rather... Peace Yo!

Be a hunter,then you can get the pet!

Next patch? As of patch 3.2, you get your first mount at 20, fast mount at 40, and flying mount at 60. The price has dropped radically as well. When I got the first mount for my hunter, I nearly fell out of my chair. I was able to get it with the change I dug out of my couch cushions. So far as I know, patch 3.3 is making no changes to mounts, though Cataclysm is going to give us a couple new racial mounts, including the goblin mount which isn't a mount at all, it's a little go-kart.

Be a hunter,then you can get the pet!

Can't you get your mount at 20 now?

yes now mounts 60% mounts are level 20 and 100% are level 40 150 (flying) level 60 epic flying lvl 70 could weather 80 unless you have the book

While this topic is in the general area, can someone help me locate certain pets? I heard you could buy snakes in Orgrimmar, but I'm failing to find them. I'm seeing how many of the pets I can collect before I get bored and do something constructive for once.

Thanks Uncreative. That's really helpful. :)