I have won the WoWternets.
Or, well. On a tip from liet that Arash-ethis is a fixed two-hour spawn (and killing the Sprite Dragons doesn't do a damn thing to change that), I spent three hours yesterday lurking her path between the road and the mountain wall in Feralas. Conclusion: Right before I got summoned to join a group to Uldaman, I spotted her. Ditched my temp-bear (named Googlybear as an homage to BRK; ♥ BRK), went sprinting after her with hunter's mark up, got attacked by a giant, then a bear (tamed that bear so I'd have some insurance against other stuff, aheh), then a wolf, then an ape, then I spotted her again, threw up HM, and finally managed to tame. It nearly killed me, because I was too excited to throw a freezing trap or any other such niceties, but I HAVE ARASH-ETHIS. *glee* And I managed to grind her loyalty up to Faithful last night. Went through Uldaman again, then went back and farmed giants in Feralas (which is exciting in all kinds of ways--they're a challenge even though they're a little under my level, being elites and fairly closely packed) for the money, then finished out by wrapping up my fishing quest. Artisan Fishing get!

Her name is Redemption, and I have a storyline twist plotted for Ansa that may also end with Nemesis getting the boot. I love him, but there really are too many ghost sabers around... And I kinda want a bear for a tank. Wind serpents don't have as much raw DPS as cats, but they do have a very nifty focus-dump skill in Lightning Breath and don't take a hit to HP like cats do.

I dunno, though. I may just keep both. Rem can be my instancing pet, and Neme can be for my PvP adventures into AV, since he has the nifty side-effect of being practically invisible on white backgrounds, thx u translucency.

Practiced kiting again yesterday. I think I'm going to send an e-mail to BRK to ask him where he recommends for tinyhunters to learn how to kite, because most of the "kite this for practice!!" recommendations I've seen on Wowhead are for...bosses...in areas that are saturated with enemies. I don't know about you, but getting adds while I'm trying to kite an elite 4+ levels over mine really ruins my day. I may try with the hostile Brood of Nozdormu dragons (Occulus and Tick) in Tanaris once I'm 55-ish; the enemies in that area should be green or gray then, so I may be able to pull a dragon all the way to Gadgetzan without too many adds. Alternately, there's that dragon in Dustwallow Marsh (not Onyxia, though that would be hilarious) that's been recommended for kiting practice, and I'm almost leveled enough that all the dragonkin/beasts/ogres/whatever in that area are gray to me. That might work... (I have yet to figure out the trick of kiting, then mounting in combat and zipping off--how DO you do that? I can't--so mostly I have Aspect of the Cheetah up, which means if I get punched in the back by anything I'm dead. I think the secret is Feign Death to drop out of combat, then mount, but...when I leave combat due to a feign, it's because the enemy is heading back to its patrol and in "evade" mode, not still aggro'd on me. If I pull with Serpent Sting, does the DoT stay even when I drop out of combat, letting the enemy redevelop aggro once it ticks again? Definitely need to ask.)

Edit: I talked to Liet again about it. You cannot mount up while successfully kiting an NPC; it doesn't work that way. And now I'm off to AV! (Where you can successfully kite other players by dropping a trap, feigning death, and mounting up.)