Three days ago I killed the matriarch and went to the location where the orphan is supposed to spawn, and there was nothing. I stuck around a while to kill the matriarch again but it never respawned. I went on an alt, still no matriarch. I checked yesterday, no matriarch or orphan. I am here now and there is no matriarch or orphan. The world quest that is up is Snowfeather Swarm. Is that why I’m not able to see Sharptalon or is it just bugged? I can’t seem to find any recent posts on wowhead about it. I had no issue with the other three pets.
Have you tested the quest complete?
I don’t remember this at all - too long ago! - but the top comment on Wowhead says that killing the Matriarch only has a chance to spawn the pet
By ClasscMalcontent (39,305 – 6·36·160) on 2016/11/02 (Patch 7.1.0)
The Sharptalon Matriarch must be killed for the chance to spawn the small pet.
After the Sharptalon Matriarch has been killed you can check to see if the pet has spawned.
/dump IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(44881)Another alternative to check the status.
/script print(IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(44881))If the quest flag check returns ‘False’ you will need to kill her again the next time she respawns. If it returns ‘True’ you are good to go. Coordinates below; formatted for TomTom users. The quest ID codes for the small pets are 44879, 44880, 44881 and 44882 respectively.
/way Val'sharah 48.04 9.47 Sharptalon Matriarch
/way Val'sharah 47.09 10.47 Orphaned SharptalonDo not forget to save or purchase Dried Bilberries from Fialla Sweetberry in Dalaran or other NPCs listed under the item.
Update: For what it’s worth, it took me four kills before the quest returned true and the Orphaned Sharptalon spawned for me to loot the Sharptalon Hatchling. Another important note, I was alone for each one of the kills. Not certain if it is truly a personal loot table with some phasing issues or just completely random. The only thing for certain is that the small pet is not guaranteed unless the quest check above responds as true.
Update 2: Some have claimed the quest flag remained false but they could see and interact with the small pet. The caveat is that this was only possible if a group of players downed the Matriarch and at least one person received credit for the hidden quest.
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Yes, I’ve tried the /dump and /script but neither seems to work. I don’t get any response, true or false.
Thanks for the suggestion!
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D’oh!
I’m sorry. I didn’t look at the script command.
Blizzard devs keep changing the syntax. 
The current correct invocation is
/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(44881))