How do I bring my dog back?

[Breedofspeed]

I adopted Erith from Markarth. She had a pet dog came with her named Torom. Well, Torom was outside Breezehome when a vampire attack happened. I tried reloading the save so many times, but no matter what he would always be dead in one hit. The "resurrect" command brings him back to life, but he has just been standing in the same spot barking where he died for weeks now. I want him to come back home. Is there a console command to make him our pet again or to move him somewhere else?

[Belanos]

Why worry about it, just find another dog and gift it to your adopted child. Resurrect should not be used on characters in the game. They will be marked as dead and their behaviour packages will quite often be broken, as you've discovered.

[Breedofspeed]

Originally posted by Belanos:

Why worry about it, just find another dog and gift it to your adopted child. Resurrect should not be used on characters in the game. They will be marked as dead and their behaviour packages will quite often be broken, as you've discovered.

Because I killed the girl's mother just so I could adopt her and the dog :'(

[BarbarianHeart]

Go pick up Meeko. His owner is dead and he needs a good home.

[Docsprock]

There is nothing else you can do about it. Dead is dead, forever.

[MageThis]

Find a bell, book, and candle. Load Zork 1. Your dog is dead.

[Vattende]

you need the ID of the dog, the use the revive command with the ID, with resurecct you made just a copy of it, without life, if you want, kinda ghost, XD.
Then you can also set your dog as essential, and so he will never die.

Open the console, click the dog, this should show you the ID.

And no, dead isn't dead in this game, if you do it the right way. ;) After free at each to say, killed is killed and so gone for ever. For my part i revived also Meeko as he died.

Good luck !

[smr1957]

Just a short little post about console commands and death scripts, since so many seem to misunderstand.

Ilja:
"Console is a debug tool. It does not pass event and AI scripts, or undo scripts that have been already been ran. I have stressed several times that using resurrect is among those commands that you should never use in Skyrim.

If the character you resurrected was dead, then using the command does not undo death scripts that have already been ran. Game AI gets confused and in 99% of cases you will just have a no-good character wandering around. In worse cases, death scritps will have run other scripts and suddenly "alive" character starts to cause conflicts in the game.

If the character you "resurrected" is alive (and in this case a quest character), then scripts affecting to this character now has double targets, messing up the game AI royally.

Load a save from before using unsafe console command. Do not try to undo it in any other way, because Skyrim stores script data to save files and there is absolutely no way to clean them 100% from them. Even Bethesda didn't manage to do so."

http://steamcommunity.com/app/72850/discussions/0/451848854985133583/

Also:
Re: Resurrecting Named Characters (quoted from post by Ilja)

"You should never resurrect any named characters in Skryim. Game runs death scripts for each of them. Using resurrect command does not undo these scripts and there is no known way to reverse them.

Resurrecting character that has death script records in save file usually ends up badly. In best case scenario you get a useless NPC that is not tied to any quest and is cut out of the progress. In worse case scenario you get NPC that is comes constantly more and more bugged, tangling game scripts even further and ends up making a real mess out of your game.

Resurrect is among commands that has been classed as dangerous and should not be used in a game. It is a developer test command and should be treated as such. If you already made a mistake of using that command, then load a save before that."

And:
cfs111
"If you don't know what you're doing, using console commands can cause your game to malfunction! Executing the wrong command can cause your game to stop working normally; furthermore, you may not become aware of such malfunctions right away, and you may not be able to trace their cause. They can cause problems like making quests impossible to complete, altering your game's display, all kinds of game behaviors, your ability to play your character, and your ability to play the game at all. Solutions are not always easy, and may involve losing saved games or reinstalling your game.
Create a permanent saved game before using the console. (This mitigates only some kinds of risks.) If you need to use the console to fix a glitch, try to use the least powerful command possible."

[MageThis]

Absolutely that ^ and favourite it.