More evidence, this one from May 1999.
This screenshot is taken at approx loc 300, -400 in qcat, facing Lyris Moonbane. All NPCs in the room are Necro guildmasters. They all have decaying-skeleton-sized white pets.
http://web.archive.org/web/200305071...9905/0517.html
P99 screenshot given for comparison.
Also another thing wrong I found off the back of this, it seems Bruax Grengar and Kurne Rextula should have pets. They presently do not on P99, but I see they have pet entries in the zone-npc-level-list.xls file I dug up:
Code:
qcat Kurne_Rextula00_pet 0 1274 1274 37 37
qcat Bruax_Grengar00_pet 0 770 770 25 25