Pets - Ferocity

I have been asked a few times about pet talents and what is the best spec for dps.
I was going to wait for 3.1 as some new pet talents appear but i thought i would post here as ive been asked quite alot now.

This is your typical dps build for non-51 BM hunters best for MM and SV huntersnote the 1 points in great sta is just to get down the rest of the tree altho you can go for Dash or Armour but ive found that little extra pet health is better

For BM 51 talent hunters with extra 4 points for pets i advise thisAs long as you have the last 3 tier points you can put the extra points anywhere. i prefer charge and great resistance. Charge for the extra 25% AP Bonus for stunning a target. Wont work on raid bosses but will on trash and great resistance for a little extra survivability.
ive been doing alot of wws reports with me and a sv hunter in IF of late and we noticed a few things between us.

1. never think what was on autocast still is and what you turned off autocast remains off. Before raids and instances. Spend 10 secs making sure growl, cower is off and that your focus dump (Bite/ Claw, Smack) and pet ability like cat: Rake is on. they turn off and on at will.

2. the talented abilities you have taken. i.e Rabid and Call of the Wild you can leave on auto cast, BUT, they wont always go off every time they are off CD. we tested this out a few time and its just plain better to turn them off auto cast and manually cast them with an all in one macro. Have them on your pet bar so you can see the CD timers as rabid is 30 sec CD and Call of the wild is 3 mins.
Macro is
/cast bestial wrath
/cast call of the wild
/cast rabid

for those SV and MM hunters just take out the first line.
For a BM hunter you pet bar should look like
all off auto cast.
For other SV and MM hunters you dont have Heart of the Phoenix so put cower here if you want so you can make sure its off Auto.

Lick you Wounds - you can leave on auto cast. its fine just make sure its on auto

Pets in general.
As MM and SV you may think your pet is secondary DPS to you and they are. However, if you dont spec Go For The Throat you pet is starved for Focus and will just sit there auto hitting waiting for focus regen. The SV hunter i tested with didnt spec GFTT and his pet couldnt do a damn thing.With 2/2 GFTT added a good 500 dps to him. with SV you could prob get away with 1/2 in GFTT as you will crit so often the 25 focus will be fine. But if you want to give your pet that much more go for 2/2 for 50 focus and BM always go for 2/2.
if you look at most bad dpsing sv hunters, 1 issue will always be no points in GFTT. i wont go into the others :)

Pet addons. Some nice addons help you regulate your Pet abilities.
Omni CC will give you CD timers on the icons to show you when the abilities for you and your pet are ready to use or getting ready to be. This will also make shot rotations smoother.

Kharthus's Hunter Timers will give you a real time countdown timer table on all your abilities and pet talents that are up
The above shows an example of what it looks like. this will also help you keep track of Serpent Sting, Hunter's Mark, Rapid Fire, traps and Pet Abilities (Rake, Monstrous Bite)