I just completed a trip to Corellia's mountainous areas. Very fertile regions for all sorts of pets! Picked up two giant carrion spats, a razor cat, and just for grins, a mottled wrix. The region north of Doeba Guerfel seems especially rich in tameable creatures. And yeah, that disease can be nasty. A mottled wrix ambushed me within moments of venturing out of town, before I knew what they even were! By the time it ran its course, the disease had eaten a third of my health!