An easy way to farm up gold on a new realm is to go and fish up Bloated Thresher when Darkmoon Faire is up. The easiest way to farm gold on a new server is to not farm at all. Since battle pets are account wide, you can just buy a fast-selling pet on your main, cage it on a new server and sell for ...

I would counter with [pet]Feline Familiar[/pet]. [ability]Stoneskin[/ability] would keep me alive while I would tear [pet]Scooter the Snail[/pet] with [ability]Pounce[/ability] and [ability]Devour[/ability] since both are strong against criters.