Indeed! It takes extreme luck to get a bear on birth!
However I think not the bear is the most valuable pet, but the panther! AnaT for example has 8 pupils with bears and only 3 with that grey wolf named panther! Not speaking about countless numbers of those good for nothing puppies.
A bear strikes only once if it strikes at all, doing sm.thing about 20 dmg. A wolf strikes 3-4 times doing 10+ dmg at each strike. Yeah indeed, the bear dies later... Alternatively speacking there are more hits a bear can bear.
I have mentioned AnaT not for any of you to pupil her! If you wanna pets go pupil the blondie in my signature... you even might get lucky, who knows! Let's say...

well, the animals likes blondes.

Good enough for some of you? At least it isn't worse than the vowels theory or other theories. I saw indeed brutes with pets having three vowels in their name, but I saw also brutes with pets having 4 os 5 vowels and I saw even much more brutes with no pets disregarding any number of vowels or pets owned by master!
p.s. The blondie in the signature is my main character since I found out AnaT is **** using

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p.s.2 It's funny how yosucker has three vowels and a bear guarding his cradle while Chem0 has nothing but a big fat 0 mama.