Dog meat keeps running away

[Booty Ham Sam]

I have used commands to spawn him to me and trying to talk but after that hes gone

[Magamboo]

Im having the same problem, did you fix it?

[Dark Beacon]

same here seems to have something to do during the reunion quest (the irony) but now he's always running toward something, somewhere. forever.

[Dark Beacon]

found him at the settlement (just have 1 atm, maybe try finding him there) you'll need to put him on follow again once you find him. he probably just goes back there when you (by accident) dismis him or something.

[Booty Ham Sam]

thanks

[JTL2]

I'm also having this issue. I used the console to bring him back, and then tried dismissing and then following again. No success.

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I know where he runs to. What I did is dismissed him and followed him. He stopped where you first meet him up, at the red rocket truck stop, that one nearby sanctuary(I don't know if there is more). Then just told him to go with me and he followed me back to sanctuary. But remember let him settle there for like a 1 min if you follow him, so he can reset. Hope all of you managed it :)

[JTL2]

I figured it out, at least for me. I had taken a break from the main quest after finding Fort Hagan.

When I want back to complete that portion of the quest, Dogmeat was outside.

And once I cleared Fort Hagan, Dogmeat was right back at the location I dismissed him to previously.

[BallisticLord]

I made nick go to sanctuary hills but dogmeat won't follow me and I don't want to lose dogmeat please help

[OldManGam1ng]

After having this same problem and reading solutions here, I figured it out. I was also using the command to bring Meathead to my side, but he he would just keep running off. In my case, I continued with the mission "Reunion." Now I think about it, I think I lost him when first starting this mission. Anyway, I found him sitting, waiting for me, tail wagging and hungry, outside of the Fort Hagen. After finding him there, he's been loyal again ever since.

[Hutchi]

Console command would bring it back,but yeah he would keep runing off.
He wasn't at reunion where i had dismissed him.
So i ended up poping him with console one more time, and follow him to to where ever he is running to.

It seems he keeps running to his starting position in the game where you first met him.
Once he got there, he was fine and from now on follow me around like he used to.

I suggest fast traveling to "Red rocket stop" and use command console there.

[kayoi]

it was kinda funny for me cause I wanted to make dogmeat a little house in sanctuary but I couldnt find him before that, so I teleported him to me and followed him to a house behind Sanctuary with a doghouse

[Scheneighnay]

If you shoot him with a mini nuke, he'll stop.

[Cosmo 🐲]

Originally posted by Hutchi:

Console command would bring it back,but yeah he would keep runing off.
He wasn't at reunion where i had dismissed him.
So i ended up poping him with console one more time, and follow him to to where ever he is running to.

It seems he keeps running to his starting position in the game where you first met him.
Once he got there, he was fine and from now on follow me around like he used to.

I suggest fast traveling to "Red rocket stop" and use command console there.

This fixed it for me... thanks a lot man !

[CiD EviL]

Originally posted by Scheneighnay:

If you shoot him with a mini nuke, he'll stop.

>:)

[Ra66it]

Originally posted by Hutchi:

Console command would bring it back,but yeah he would keep runing off.
He wasn't at reunion where i had dismissed him.
So i ended up poping him with console one more time, and follow him to to where ever he is running to.

It seems he keeps running to his starting position in the game where you first met him.
Once he got there, he was fine and from now on follow me around like he used to.

I suggest fast traveling to "Red rocket stop" and use command console there.

This is true, I found him there and now he follows me