# Bernie pet

The Bernie pet is an item that can be found while training Firemaking. It can be used to unlock the Bernie pet.

The following methods will work to unlock this item:

Players cannot get Bernie if using protean logs.[1]

When a player obtains the pet, they receive one of the following messages:

While skilling, you find Bernie, the Firemaking pet. It has been added to your inventory.

While skilling, you find Bernie, the Firemaking pet. However, you do not have enough inventory space, so it has been sent to your bank.

In a purely mathematical format your chance ${\displaystyle f}$ of receiving a pet on any particular action is

${\displaystyle f={\frac {T\times S}{50,000,000}}}$

Where:

• ${\displaystyle T}$ is the amount of game ticks taken per action.
• ${\displaystyle S}$ is the virtual skill level. At 200 million experience, a flat bonus of 50 is applied to this value.

## Update history

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• patch 13 February 2017 (Update):
• The Pyromaniac perk now gives the correct chance of obtaining Bernie the skilling pet when triggered.

## References

1. ^ Mod Shauny. Skilling Pets - Megathread!. Reddit. 22 August 2016. (Archived from the original on 20 April 2019.) Mod Shauny: "The following items/training methods will not provide a chance at receiving a pet:... Use of Protean Items"