Bloodpouncer

Bloodpouncers are pets released as a promotional item awarded to people who redeem 90-100 membership days, or red pre-paid game cards at any retailer. They were also given away to "qualified adventurers" a few days before the method of getting them via game card was made known. They can not be purchased from the Solomon Store with runecoins. They are shown in the customisation interface. It seems to be the Vyrewatch equivalent of the Skypouncer, adding fuel to the speculation that Vyrewatch are actually Icyenes who were turned into Vyrewatch by Lord Drakan.

The bloodpouncer has three stages of growth - baby, adolescent, and adult. It will take approximately 15 hours to reach the adolescent stage and an additional 25 hours to reach the adult stage. This time can be halved by "playing" with your pet by making it do one of its two emotes. It appears that while the pet is with you, it generates its own pet points up to a cap of 30 points. When this cap is reached, simply making the pet do an emote will allow you to retrieve the generated points, making it possible to raise the pet in half the time.

A bloodpouncer does not need to be fed like a normal pet. Although feeding it Tasty Treat will increase the rate of the bloodpouncer's happiness by 50%, and feeding it Jelly Treat will increase it by 100%.

When a current member visits a free to play world, the player is able to use the customizations interface to summon the pet, and the pet does still acquire pet points and is capable of maturing to the next stage on the free to play world. That is because the Bloodpouncer, like the other pets from Solomon's General Store, are available to Free-to-play, and so are available for usage in these worlds.

Abilities
The pet retains abilities from earlier growth stages when it learns a new ability.

Forage
The bloodpouncer can forage from the moment it is obtained. Some of the things that a bloodpouncer is confirmed to be able to forage are as follows:


 * Coins: 10 to 500
 * Grimy Herbs: Guam, Harralander, Irit, Cadantine
 * Seeds: Potato, Sweetcorn, Onion, Wildblood, Jangerberry, Poison Ivy, Dwarf Weed, White berry
 * Remains: Bones, Big bones, Baby dragon bones

Banking
The pet is able to take an item to your bank when it reaches the adolescent stage, it can take one item every 10 minutes. The pet's ability to bank does not work in Wilderness Level 1 and beyond (further north). If one just crosses the Wilderness Wall (and the Wilderness level display does not actually appear; thus can be considered "Wilderness Level Zero") and does not walk north, then the pet's banking ability still can be used.

Scavenge
The bloodpouncer is able to scavenge when it reaches adult stage. To access the scavenge feature, 'Interact' with the bloodpouncer and select 'Convenience', then select 'Scavenge'. When scavenge is selected, a menu interface will appear; the pet will automatically collect charms, but is able to pick up other items too. You can make the pet scavenge: Gold, Runes & Talismans, Herbs & Seeds, Weapons, Armour, Metal Bars & Ore, Bones & Ashes, Raw & Cooked food and Miscellaneous.

To deactivate scavenge, 'interact' with your pet, select 'convenience' and select 'Heel'.

The pet will only pick up one item from a slain enemy, if an enemy drops two or more items the pet will only pick up one.

Emotes
The two playing emotes for the bloodpouncer also change as it grows. As a kitten, the playing emotes are titled "Can has rat?", in which the owner pulls out a string and plays with the kitten, and "Finger food", in which the owner drops a walking hand for the kitten to attack. The adolescent emotes are "Come back, shiny bauble", in which the player produces a ball of light with magic for the bloodpouncer to pounce on, and "Me? Fetch?", in which the player unsuccessfully tries to direct the Bloodpouncer away. The adult emotes are 'Fear me, human', in which red particles appear around the Bloodpouncer, which then roars at the player, and 'Where are you going?', in which a small demon appears in front of the Bloodpouncer, which then grabs the demon in it's jaws, throws it into the air, and kills it.

When 2 players with bloodpouncers meet, it is possible for them to engage in battle. A dustcloud will appear where they are fighting, and after a few seconds they will go back to following their masters as if nothing happened.

Engaging in battle with skypouncers has the same effect.



Trivia

 * There's currently a glitch with the scavenging ability, if the player's inventory is full it will not move and subsequently stay in the same spot unless call pet function is used
 * There's also another glitch with the scavenging feature, should the player's inventory be full and the pet picks up an item, that item will disappear
 * The "Can has rat?" emote title is a reference to the lolcat meme "I can has cheezburger".