Macro to Toggle between Feathers (pet) and Wonderwing (mount?)

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So I was hoping for a macro (or perhaps more realistically, two macros) that I could use to accomplish the following two actions:

Action 1:
Ride the Wonderwings 2.0 mount
Cancel the Feathers buff on the player (the buff when the pet rides your shoulder)

Action 2:
Dismount
Summon the Feathers pet
Target the Feathers pet (presumably change the name to whatever I named my Feathers?)
Whistle at the Feathers pet.

Thanks!

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/use [nomod] Wonderwing 2.0
/sp [mod] Feathers
/targetexact [mod] Feathers
/whistle [mod]
/dismount [mounted]

With modifier (ctrl/shift/alt) do pet stuff, without mount.

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hey so… I put this in, corrected the typo in the mount’s name, it does nothing but whistle (regardless of whether or not a modifier key is held). ??? No mods that should be interacting with this at all.

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Oh it’s /summonpet or /sp

https://wow.gamepedia.com/MACRO_summonpet

Also fixed Wonderwing 2.0

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A minor footnote, but it’s not possible for a macro or addon to target companion pets. They need to be clicked with the mouse.

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That’s strange, last I checked it was possible to target them in Classic because I used a macro to help me summon my companion pet.

Do you happen to know the reason behind why this was changed in retail?

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I’m not sure about Classic, but you can summon them with /sp or /summonpet as Elvenbane mentioned above. The call behind it, C_PetJournal.SummonPetByGUID, is even usable outside combat.

There was an exploit a few years ago where a macro/addon could summon a companion pet when some conditions were met that ordinarily aren’t allowed to be automated (health, debuffs, casting, etc). Then a macro would attempt to target that companion pet. If [exists] it would cast the alternate ability, otherwise it would continue with what it was doing. If Black Tabby Cat was out, Execute, otherwise Mortal Strike. Or if one of 4 pets were summoned then cast a dropped buff on that corresponding party member.

Unfortunately, Blizzard made a rather heavy-handed fix and not only protected summoning companion pets in combat (which would’ve been sufficient), but they made companion pets untargetable by macro or addon the way shaman totems were done around that time.