Question about pet spells

[Jackal2002]

so i am working to give druids a pet from level 1 and then every 10th level until 65 at which every 5 levels.

i found an archive post from 2004 that talks about if you use a model that isn't a standard pet model or player character race model you would have to add that model to each zone ( link to the thread http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=13328 )

but i came up with a walk around and wanted to know if any one has tried this as i cant seem to get any model to show up and am still working to get a pet at all to show up. the thought i had was that if a "standard" model replaces it when that model isn't in zone why not have it be just that, and add an illusion spell to the pet to make it appear as if its any illusion you wish. is this possible? are all the illusions that are useable in a zone also in all zone list. sorry i haven't tried the zone modding yet so i don't know exactly where to look in the zone list.

so the is it possible is my question and if any one has tried how did it work?

thanks for any info.