Basically, I'd like for only my pets' names/links to appear on my user profile.

I know I could manually create links in a text box, but I do somewhat regularly swap out names I have trouble working with for different ones, and I'm kinda just too lazy to constantly update that list. I've seen plenty variations on pet image size and shape, so surely there must be a way to straight up remove the image?

i'm not sure how to do it when it's set to full images, but if you change it to 'show headshots' .avatar_head {display:none;} should do what you want

yesss perfect, thank you!