I figured, "ooh, I'll group one of these dawnguard huskies, even if it dies!"

When I try to, I see "you already have an animal."

I don't, as far as I know. I've had those wild dogs, Meeko, a dog from a stable, etc who died.

I also think I had a dog who just suddenly was no longer showing up, even when going to stables
and such.

I've not had a dog around for quite some time now, all through playing and finishing the dawnguard side.

So what gives?

Is there a way to ditch the phantom dog, which I don't think I have?

Did you ever start the deadric quest with the dog?

I'm hoping they do what Obsidian did with the Follower Removal Thing.

The stray dogs are the problem, they have a tendency to vanish from the game, getting stuck in some sort of limbo. I am 90 hours in my game, and I had a stray dog follow me around from hours 1-35 before it vanished. I thought it died, so now I am finding the same bug. It svcks, it really does. And the fact that this bug has been around since day one and nothing has been done about it svcks even worse. There is no way to fix this bug, except by using the console on a PC to remove the companion.

Unless someone has found a way to fix it?



That doesn't work. I thought about that so I just did it about 10 minutes ago, and I'm still getting the glitch. I tried both possible endings for the quest too.

EDIT: I know this was a bit of a bump, but has anyone found a way to fix this glitch on the console versions of the game?

I had the same problem so I checked the stable in Markarth where the guy sells you Vigilance, but he wasn't there, so I figured he was dead. After that I went to Meeko's shack, found him and got him killed by a Mammoth. I went back to the Huskies and it worked, so mabye try one of those. Otherwise look for a stray on the road, tell it to follow you, then get it killed.