Stupid dog!

[anjenthedog]

So... there's this stray dog I encountered in the rift near Deepwood Redoubt. I didn't ask it to be a follower, it just suddenly was. Followed me all the way to Rorikstead. Told it to wait while I did some business in the Inn, then when I came outside it was gone. Tried an AFT summon but it didn't show up.

 

Anyone happen to know anything about the stray dog in the rift?

 

PS> just ftr, I'm not really someone who says "stupid dog", it's just something that my follower said as well as some miner we met along the way.

 

I was actually walking from town to town to see if could find its owner. If that didn't happen, since I just got a new home (heljarchen), I was going to leave it there as a house/yard pet. It's just puzzling that it vanished inexplicably.

 

Oh, anecdote... on my old game (ie another character) there was some traveling mage/academic type who had a dog with her. I wonder if maybe this is her dog. She also said "stupid dog" all the time when I'd meet her on the road, but I haven't encountered her with this player character, so I don't know if she even exists or maybe died somewhere before I could encounter her.

[Deleted64927026User]

Its a random encounter

 

Just a pet follower that spawns at some set locations and follows you until dismissed or dead

 

 

That NPCs call him "Stupid dog" is a bug. Poor doggy never did anything wrong..

[jjb54]

Its a random encounter

 

Just a pet follower that spawns at some set locations and follows you until dismissed or dead

 

 

That NPCs call him "Stupid dog" is a bug. Poor doggy never did anything wrong..

 

The " stupid dog " is in the game's program. There is a mod that removed it, sort of.

 

Limited " Stupid Dog " removal.

 

A couple of ideas if you want to have them stop following you.

 

Get AMAZING FOLLOWER TWEAK and make him a " follower " and then use the DISMISS as usual.

 

Or use the Console Command:

set playerfollowercount to 0

[anjenthedog]

Yeah, I actually have that mod installed. Which made me a bit surprised to hear it said again. By a follower, and two NPCs. But...that's not really the reason I posted... My main thing was to figure out where it might have gone or maybe it's some "ghost dog" thing I didn't know about.

 

btw, the second part of your reply is in part why I asked. I installed AHO a while back on another character and she had also encountered a stray that attached itself in much the same way (the dog encounter was prior to installing AHO by several levels). The dog in that case had also disappeared, that time inside some cave

 

Since AHO requires the player to be unencumbered by followers, I dismissed my companion at the time to prep for the quest but found I was still CTDing at the start of AHO (apparently a known problem when you have followers).

 

I tried the set playerfollowercount to 0 solution but AHO still crashed, so I finally just uninstalled it in frustration.

 

I suspect that at some point I just need to do a fresh install and avoid all the dumb things I did when I was completely clueless, as I suspect I've gimped my game with some mods I just shouldn't have installed. It's not unstable or anything, but there are periodic weirdnesses that I have a hard time explaining, beyond ascribing them to mischievious/malicious programming in some of the mods I've installed (and uninstalled) along the way

 

edited for clarity.

[Moksha8088]

I think the official Stupid Dog can be found in the mod Interesting NPCs. The dog follows the Dark Elf Ureni around to various locations despite her trying to get rid of it.