i'd still put it to passive, just to be safe. there are certain beasties that could trigger your panther (i'm guessing) and you don't need that headache. can't you have 3 pets or something? variety! get some other shit too. My faves were a black lion from the barrens and i think a boar - it had a rad charge. think i also had a diseased bear from later in the game.

loaded up Oblivion again to try this total conversion mod called Nehrim from germans . So far it's really good. Instead of the generic world that Oblivion kinda had, everything in this total conversion was planned out and it really shows. Also, rad german-engrish.

edit: just remembered i had an awesome pink flamingo too - that was from cow-people land (forget - taurens, ya) - back in the day pet stats weren't normalized like they eventually were, so it actually made a difference if you sought out hard to find pets. good ol bad days