03-05-2005, 01:20 AM
In defensive mode, the pet will attack anything that strikes you or the pet. However, I don't think that this is what happened. In fact, I think what happened here is that your spider was still only at loyalty level 1. I ran into a situation just like this in the beta where my pet (bear) at loyalty level 1 was still considered by the NPC's in ashenvale as an enemy and it was the NPC's who attacked the pet first and not my pet. Of course, my pet retaliated and I got summarily crushed by the night elf guards. I think you have to let your pet's loyalty rise a bit before you can take it into town.