Adopting Meeko as a pet.

[Steinolf]

Ok, I am at a loss for how to adopt a dog. I know your kids will ask to adopt him if you bring him home but my kids will not. They will run up to me and mention him in general dialogue but they will never ask to keep him. I have had him as a follower for half my game now and my kids will never ask to keep him. I know some people say that if you far travel and then come back that it will work or to send meeko home to his shack and then retrieve him that it will work. In my case neither of these methods have worked. Please if someone knows a trick to get my kids to ask to adopt him I would love to know it.

[Clever Monkey]

i have never had them ask about meeko. usually a rndom animal shows up in the yard or house

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http://uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim_talk:Meeko
Pet?

Can anyone confirm that Meeko can actually become a pet? Cause I know he's tagged that way as with Hearthfire but I've yet to have any of the children in any of the houses ask to keep him. Lord Eydvar Talk|Contribs 17:51, 3 November 2012 (GMT)
I can confirm that Meeko can be a pet for Hearthfire kids. It is their first pet. After just a few visit back home (Breezehome) one of them demanded Meeko as pet. But they can only have 1 "doggy" and 1 random creature like a fox as pets. They can't have 2 dogs as pets. I tried with Sceolang the husky but the kids ignored it and got a fox instead. — Unsigned comment by 175.143.246.129 (talk) at 14:35 on 11 December 2012

so maybe one day you can get lucky

[Steinolf]

Yeah, I hope that maybe I'll get lucky at this point. I know some others have posted that their kids DID adopt Meeko but maybe the game just hates me. Thanks for the response though.

[mikeydsc]

From the comment above sounds like it may take a FEW visits back home with the dog with you, does that work?

[Steinolf]

It seems to have worked for others after a few visits back home but I have probably visited my home about 50 times now and my kid will only ever run up and say "Wow, is that your pet.... he looks tough". Then my kid walks away. If I try to talk to my kid after I am only presented with the regular options for dialogue.