I know a lot times when I did DnD campaigns, people liked to play Beast Tamers/Hunters... -shrugs- I guess people like the idea of animal companions. I know I do. Though, I kept my fairly ordinary and yeah.

In my boyfriend RPG, Crimson Skies, my character had a lion. Like... a huge ass lion. and in the group, there was a hunter who wanted nothing more than to shoot the living daylights out of her lion.