Currently it is level 1, based on I assume the geocities.com/ficticiousname9 dumps, where he is indeed listed as level 1.
However every other source has him at level 4.
Allakhazam page (multiple in-era posts about him being level 4):
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=3563
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/...id=3563#m11491
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/...00342188093016
Everlore page (has him listed as 4):
https://web.archive.org/web/20010515...how&BID=186730
Everlore quest page for this quest, in the quest description, it describes the guy getting 'whooped' by the pet on Feb 21st 2000 which I would hazard to guess means he was higher than level 1:
https://web.archive.org/web/20011224...de=35&id=84050
Last page also has some commentary that I'm going to take to mean he was higher than level 1 ("people say you need to be 5 to do this quest, but I did it at 4 with my pet"):
https://web.archive.org/web/20020530...tby=2#Comments
I'm going to hazard a guess that the dumps were either done very soon after Paineel release and he was bugged, then fixed by Feb 20th-ish, or else he was always level 4 and it was just a data error.