I actually use my 2hr everytime I enter abyssea or am about to do a long event. I'm not sure on all the pet durations before I use familiar but I don't recall ever losing my pet before I get kick our of abyssea or leave on my own when I do it.

I do alot of soloing in abyssea so why not have a pumped up dipper or NN or whatever pet I use instead of the ones I have now. If my pet is already awesome using the 2hr just makes it that much more awesome, instead of waiting for trouble to pop 2hr and hope pet survives long enough for recast reward timers.

It would be nice to have 3 pets out at once but then I'd still be happy even if they don't change it. I would second the fact that I want our damn pets to zone with us. We are the only ones that pay for pets and it's use that has to lose them when we zone. Hell even npc's zone with you so don't tell me it's because we use items to call our pets.