Major Tomcat: Does he stick around if you dismiss him?

[espuur]

So I picked up Major Tomcat at the beginning of the game and he's following me around. I see that I can dismiss him if I want to and I'm concerned that he will die on my adventures but he's cool and he's one of the Rangers so I'd like to continue having him around. So if I dismiss him while I am at the Ranger HQ, will he stick around the base or does he disappear from the game? Does anyone know?

[bcasner50]

I just tamed a higher level dog and poof, Mjr Tomcat vanished as the dog took his place...

[espuur]

Hmmm. You didn't dismiss him, though. The game just replaced him. There may be a different result if you dismiss him first.

Has anyone dismissed Major Tomcat? If so, what happened?

[espuur]

Well, no other replies yet. All right, I guess it's time for an experiment. I'm dismiss him at HQ and see if he sticks around. I'll let you all know what happens!

[kevcro]

I don't know about Major Tomcat*, but I briefly dismissed a different cat in order to have it assigned to a different AW character only to find I could not recharm the lil guy.

[My mate Major Tomcat went and got his butt blown up by a nuke robot].

[BigD]

Originally posted by espuur:

Well, no other replies yet. All right, I guess it's time for an experiment. I'm dismiss him at HQ and see if he sticks around. I'll let you all know what happens!

How did it go?

[Cutlass Jack]

I tried dismissing him and he stayed where I left him. I could bribe him with Cigarettes to get him to rejoin again. This let me switch who he was attached to/buffing.

[dlux]

I dismissed Major Tomcat (and Polly) in Ranger HQ, because I don't want them to die. If you leave the map and return, then they are gone.

[NoFrAg]

I dismissed him, then persuaded a dog to follow me, afterwards I spoke with Major Tomcat to get him back and now I've two pets following me.

Not sure if this is a bug or supposed to be like this if you find it out!

[Deskath]

I tamed a 30k hp honey badger...

[SeaGroomer]

Necro post since this is still a top result when you search for a solution - if you click on the animal kennel in the Ranger HQ you can "Store" Major Tomcat without "Dismissing" him from service.

[Gillsing]

Originally posted by Cutlass Jack:

I tried dismissing him and he stayed where I left him. I could bribe him with Cigarettes to get him to rejoin again. This let me switch who he was attached to/buffing.

Awesome. Right now he's giving my max Charisma sniper 50% strike rate with the DLC sniper rifle Cold Death, but at some point I'll raise the Sniper Rifle skill and switch to a much better rifle, but without the +20% strike rate. At which point I'd like Major Tom to go to Lucia, who with her +5% strike rate background will still be stuck at 33% with max Charisma. Which gets her 99% with three attacks, which is not 100%. So she could really use an extra +1 or +2% strike rate. (Edit: Turns out that my sniper who is also my leader gets her strike meter filled when using her leadership perk abilities. Holding Cold Death she gets 50% at a time, so Major Tom is still useful to her if she needs to get her meter filled with just two actions, such as Rally and Mark Target. Though I suppose she always starts out with a partially filled strike meter after having performed a Precision Shot, so 38% with the other rifle and no Major Tom should be just as good.)

I wonder if it would be possible to switch 'owner' of Polly by using the same dialogue used to acquire him? That is, by doing the switch near the same NPC?