Possibly, although as far as I’m aware Paladins have issues with blessing actually working on hunters pets in classic.

I can also tell you that the most common event in instances was actually my shaman dying not a hunter, maybe the plate armor would help him survive long enough for the pets to take agro back off them... I don’t care to say how long I spent kiting mobs around instance with earthbind totems and rank1 frost bolt with 4 BM hunter pets chewing the ass off what ever was chasing me only to die and then have the 4 hunters kill the boss from 90% with no healer what so ever... just feeding pets to the mobs and ressing them as they died.