Pet talents

Prior to Patch 5.0.4, hunter pets enjoyed their own talent system, featuring trees in which hunters could spend each pet's talent points. The pet talent system was removed with Mists of Pandaria, with many talents removed, and the rest converted into specialization-specific pet abilities.

Generic
These talents can be used for all pet family types. Different trees may have them at different tier levels.

Cunning
These talents can be used by the following pet family types: Bat, Birds of prey, Chimera, Dragonhawk,  Nether Ray,  Ravager, Serpent, Silithid, Spider,  Sporebat, Wind Serpent.

The tree gives burst, stun and crowd-control abilities, useful in PvP.

Ferocity
These talents can be used by the following pet family types: Carrion Bird, Cat, Core Hound, Devilsaur, Hyena, Moth, Raptor, Spirit Beast, Tallstrider, Wasp, Wolf,  Fox and Dog.

The tree is designed for boosting PvE DPS.

Tenacity
These talents can be used by the following pet family types: Bear, Boar, Crab, Crocolisk, Gorilla, Rhino, Scorpid, Turtle,  Warp Stalker, Worm.

The tree is designed for boosting tanking ability, either for soloing or for gimmick group-tanking.