Question about trading pets

[Riddley]

Do caged pets that are traded lose levels?

I have several cage-able 25s that I'd like to loan to a friend to get his collection going. Will they lose levels when he returns them or as part of my lending them to him?

Thanks!

[Ljgk]

I don't believe they lose levels, but to learn them the person you're trading them to has to have atleast leveled a pet to level 25 other wise they will not be able to be learned. I hope this helps, if i missed anything feel free to correct me.

[Maizing]

Caging pets never makes them lose levels. The only thing that makes a pet lose levels is upgrading them... and then, only if they are higher than level 15 (fun fact, when I have used a stone on a pet that was exactly level 15, it did not lose any levels).

I will confirm that you cannot learn a caged pet unless you already have a pet that is that level or higher in your collection. I have seen a lot of posts by people who mistakenly caged their only level 25 pet... and were then unable to learn it again until they leveled another pet to 25.

[Kpb321]

You can still help them out by providing the pets for the following strategy. Haven't tried it but makes perfect sense and a [pet]Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling[/pet] is perfect as it takes less dmg from the eye and deals extra dmg. It's also a pretty dang handy pet in general.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/7592582300

[Riddley]

Thanks for the replies everyone!