Skilling pets are pets you can get while training a non-combat skill. Every skilling action has a small chance of giving the pet for that skill. The February 2026 update added many new forms (rock golems, beavers, phoenixes, squirrels, raccoons and herons), the Toy cat for Crafting, Quetzin for Fletching and a pet for every type of impling. The Skill Guide (click a skill in your skills tab) has a Pets page that shows every pet for that skill.
How skilling pets work
- Each successful action, such as a log cut, a fish caught or a lap finished, has a small chance of giving the skill's pet. Faster methods give more actions per hour but each action is less likely to give the pet, so all methods of a skill work out roughly the same per hour.
- Your chance is better while skilling in the Wilderness or in the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons.
- Once you have 200 million experience in a skill, that skill's pet becomes much more likely.
- An active Pet Collector Scroll also improves the chance a little.
- When you get a pet, it starts following you if nothing else is. Otherwise it goes into your inventory, or your bank if your inventory is full. Everyone online sees a message and the pet is added to your Collection log.
- Many skilling pets have several forms. Right-click your pet and choose Metamorphosis to switch it to its next form. Some forms can only be reached this way.
- Lost or emptied a pet? You can buy it back; see Reclaiming pets.
The pets
Agility
| Pet |
How you get it |
Other forms
|
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Giant squirrel |
Completing laps of an agility course |
 Dark squirrel,  Bone squirrel
|
Cooking
| Pet |
How you get it |
Other forms
|
 |
Pet Culinaromancer |
Cooking food |
None
|
Crafting
| Pet |
How you get it |
Other forms
|
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Toy cat (a clockwork cat) |
Cutting gems, spinning on a spinning wheel and chiselling amethyst into tips |
None
|
Farming
| Pet |
How you get it |
Other forms
|
 |
Tangleroot |
Picking herbs, checking the health of fully grown trees and fruit trees, and chopping down farmed trees |
Crystal acorn, dragonfruit, guam, redwood and white lily tangleroots
|
Firemaking
| Pet |
How you get it |
Other forms
|
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Phoenix |
Lighting logs and adding logs to a bonfire |
Blue, green, purple and white phoenixes
|
Fishing
| Pet |
How you get it |
Other forms
|
 |
Heron |
Catching fish |
 Great blue heron
|
Fletching
| Pet |
How you get it |
Other forms
|
 |
Quetzin |
Fletching bows, arrows, bolts, darts and other Fletching items |
None
|
Herblore
| Pet |
How you get it |
Other forms
|
 |
Herbi |
Making potions |
None
|
Hunter
| Pet |
How you get it |
Other forms
|
 |
Baby chinchompa |
Catching chinchompas in box traps. Grey, red and black chinchompas give the baby chinchompa of their own colour. |
Grey, red and black. A black baby chinchompa very rarely turns gold when it metamorphoses.
|
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Pet Crystal impling |
Catching the Crystal impling |
None
|
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Pet Dragon impling |
Catching the Dragon impling |
None
|
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Pet Lucky impling |
Catching the Lucky impling |
None
|
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Pet Divine Skilling impling |
Catching the Divine Skilling impling (Divine Donator only) |
None
|
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Pet Divine Slayer impling |
Catching the Divine Slayer impling (Divine Donator only) |
None
|
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Pet Divine Monster impling |
Catching the Divine Monster impling (Divine Donator only) |
None
|
Catching birds and other net or snare animals doesn't give a pet. The update announced a base chance of 1 in 300 catches for the impling pets. See Impling and Divine implings.
Mining
| Pet |
How you get it |
Other forms
|
 |
Rock golem |
Mining tin, copper, iron, coal, mithril, adamantite, runite or amethyst. You get the golem of the ore you were mining. |
16 forms in all: rock, tin, copper, iron, blurite, silver, coal, gold, mithril, granite, adamant, rune, amethyst, lovakite, elemental and daeyalt
|
 |
Pet Stardust |
Mining a shooting star |
None
|
The rock, blurite, silver, gold, granite, lovakite, elemental and daeyalt golems can only be reached through Metamorphosis.
Runecrafting
| Pet |
How you get it |
Other forms
|
 |
Rift guardian |
Crafting runes. You get the rift guardian of the rune you were crafting. |
One for each rune: air, mind, water, earth, fire, body, cosmic, chaos, astral, nature, law, death, blood, soul and wrath
|
Smithing
| Pet |
How you get it |
Other forms
|
 |
Pet Anvil |
Smelting bars and smithing items |
None
|
Thieving
| Pet |
How you get it |
Other forms
|
 |
Rocky |
Stealing from stalls |
 Ziggy and  Red (raccoons)
|
Woodcutting
| Pet |
How you get it |
Other forms
|
 |
Beaver |
Cutting normal, oak, willow, maple, yew, magic or redwood trees. You get the beaver of the tree you were cutting. |
10 forms in all: normal, oak, willow, teak, maple, mahogany, arctic pine, yew, magic and redwood
|
The teak, mahogany and arctic pine beavers can only be reached through Metamorphosis.
There is no pet for Slayer or the combat skills.
See also