I respec'd back to BM and headed off to Un'goro to tame one. After riding around longer than the flight, I finally found a 'regular' one and tamed it. Holy shrinkage batman!
I wandered around with the new pet for awhile, the whole time being distracted by its ugly stuttering walk animation. I then stumbled into the Silithid hive, abandoned the devilsaur, and tamed a reaver. They look pretty cool, and remained quite large as well.
Some guild members wanted to get the Kurken from Azuremyst, so that was the next destination.
So far so good, I re-named her 'Sophie' after an old dog I used to have, I think shes a keeper.
They are really noisy the way they stomp around, shaking everything.