According to the Ion during the Q&A, while they want battle pets to be a part of housing, there’s some pathing issues and such that the devs haven’t gotten around yet. They’re hoping to have it possible to have the pets available at some point.
My hope is that we’ll be able to set down pet carriers/cages for specific pets, rather than just having random ones spawn. Or maybe some sort of furniture item that can do one or the other?
I imagine it will be similar to how your wandering pets in your garrison worked. Prioritizes favorite pets, and if you don’t have any favorited, picks randomly
Yeah, but I never really liked that. I only run favorite pets during holidays, because I use the Petwalker addon. Because the garrison would summon 10 random pets, I rather liked it being able to summon from all of my pets. In my house, though, I think I might like to be able to specify just a couple of pets, without needing to use the favorite system.
That said, if all we end up is an item that will summon a number of random pets, I’ll still use it.
Considering that over a year later we still can’t see what pets are on the Guild Bank, suspect not a whole lot of dev time might be spent letting us have our pets in the house.