Or they could just tell your computer to not render specific objects actions, maybe? But seriously, though, just give me a volume slider for pets. Flourishes, too, if you're feeling frisky, but I would sell my mother to Orion slavers for the volume slider for pets.
Lolz, no. It has nothing to do with immersion/rp. I'm not one of those folks. The main issue for me, personally, is the noise that some of the non-combat pets generate. When you're in a social zone for a while and someone has their DOT-7 drone sitting there just spinning it's hands around, or a mugato screeching for 5+…