Player Owned Farm dino babies have the absolute bare minimum of NPC animations, though (idle, walk), so insufficient assets even for a non-combat follower pet. (I suspect some players wouldn't appreciate having a pet that cannot run.)
Just a thought, but can't you just recycle the T-bone pet for most of the needed animations? Yes, his neck is a little loose in the running animation, but there is some basic groundwork for it, no?
Would love to have these pets as either a reward from PoF (say 100K beans per?) or the new activity.
That's a really good idea! It didn't come up in my original search by reference presumably as Mr T-Bone uses a different (but hopefully similar) rig export.
If the explosions tomorrow are relatively self-contained with minimal casualties, I'll check if combining the bagrada model with T-Bone's anims doesn't do horrible Salvador Dali flesh-melting things.
No guarantees, as I may have my hands full of fletch, fury and flame.