Do pets benefit from armour?

[Cerate]

Not only do resist gear work on pets, but haste items work as well (hence muzzle of mardu). AC is more difficult to demonstrate.

[cubiczar]

I don't have any concrete evidence, but my lvl 12 fire pet seemed to do a lot better after dumping a bunch of leather armor on him. At the beginning of a night his health goes down pretty fast and I'd have to use nukes a fair amount, but as the night wears on and his suit of leather was completed he seemed to tank a lot better.

This was doing orcs and I was there for a couple hours a night for about a week and each night was the same so I don't think it was a fluke.

But then it is a level 12 pet so I don't know if it is noticable at higher levels.