Survival Mode Dogmeat disappeared.

[Juzt_Lernin]

Like seriously disappeared, he was next to me then poof, gone. I went back to the gas station and also checked all the doghouses in Sanctuary and nowhere to be found? He was carrying a bunch of my stuff!!

[Juzt_Lernin]

And console is gone for Survival so I couldn't force spawn him even if I wanted to.

[CrackeR]

Previous save?

[Link Kadeshi]

Two options:

1. Look in the crackhouses. He probably pawned your stuff to get high.
   
2. Download a mod from Nexus that allows console use, and "MoveTo Player" his ass.
   
3. Secret option- Cry yourself to sleep.

[Tyberis]

This happened to me in non-survival mode a couple of times. Only way to get him back is to fast travel.....ironic isn't it?.....

Thanks Beth for making the only way to get your followers back is to fast travel....which you can't.

[zounds]

Make someone else your companion and see if it gives you the option to send Dogmeat home properly.

[Juzt_Lernin]

Ok, thanks all.

[AcidMantis]

I am level 8 on my survival play, this has happened 3 times to me so far. The first time, I went to Red Rocket to see if he was there, nowhere to be seen. I tabbed out to look for solutions, tabbed back in, and he was sitting right in front of me, but I could get no dialog prompts, and he just stayed there.

I have to enlist another companion, send dogmeat to sanctuary at the prompt, then wait for him to show up there. It seems like this occurs when I enter an area through a door; sometimes dogmeat loads in with me, sometimes he doesn't. Oh well, I am tired of him running away when I want to get into his inventory anyway. Let's roll, Codsworth!

And Tyberis, I doubt Bethesda intended for you to have to fast travel to get a companion back, it seems like a bug.