This is sort of a followup to my question

This is sort of a followup to my question in the nearby wizard troubles thread. In it, I asked if I was crazy to want to play a Wizard without a pet--something I asked because pets, especially the starting ones, tend to be not much more than a pain in the ass nuisance and constant worry to me (waiting for them to get to stairs, hoping they don't go feral, struggling without success to credit clone, eating all my food, etc). The answer was, more or less, 'yes.'