It took a long time, but I was really proud when my daughter finally came home with the fox pet from the Hearthfire expansion. I used to always be able to count on that weird, adorable, creature staring at my child without blinking while she slept. Now, the fox is gone. I've been searching for possible solutions on the web but have found nothing that works. I first read that it may be an issue of the pet clipping into floor, and that the animal allegiance shout might be used to rustle them out if I left the building right after doing it. No luck. I also read somewhere that the pet may be stuck in the basemant, so I tried giving my daughter a wooden sword so she'd go down to the basemant and wail on the practice dummy. No luck. I even tried searching all around the houses the kids had lived at to see if I could find a dead fox body. Nothing. Finally, I just decided I'd try waiting it out. In game time, it's been well over a month, during which time I've traveled all over skyrim and solstheim doing quests, and the little bugger is still missing. Does anyone have any other ideas, or should I just get used to the idea that it's glitched out and gone for good?

Try to get another pet like Meeko.

Also, you used your email for your username?

Yes like Meeko, a lovely boy in the woods.

Meeko's Shack is a small dwelling, and is found east of Dragon Bridge and south of Solitude Sawmill.

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120107083503/elderscrolls/images/3/30/Meekos_shack.jpg

Yeah, I got Meeko. The pet dogs are easy to acquire; you just pick 'em up and bring 'em home and wait for one of your kids to ask to adopt him. To date, I've never had a problem with Meeko disappearing, just the fox, which is why I was looking for solutions to that problem specifically. Anyway, your pet dog doesn't count towards the slot that's filled by your "look what followed me home" adopted-child-found pet, so that advice not only isn't helpful, it's not even on topic.

First of all it's not a game breaking glitch, if any....

Secondly Hearthfire is not the same like SIMS, lol

And last but not least who knows who your pet is. Maybe it's eaten from a wolf and then it's vanished.

In my house ih Falkreath if i kill a wolf or perhaps a giant after a while if i come back, the corpse is gone...so,...

And i think you must consider to buy a new one, or somethink like that.

Pretty rude! Mark is the most helpful, nicest person on this part of the forum so no need to be so huffy. Pets go issuing all the time in Skyrim and I've never seen much success in finding them other than reloading an earlier save. I have Meeko and the heavy breathing fox but so far not missing.

Honestly, if it was dead that would be a big improvement over simply having disappeared, at least then there'd be a chance the kid could find a new one. I figured I was kind of SOL here, it's just even more frustrating that I lose my fox AND Teldryn Sero in the same day (not in Retching Netch, not near the Windhelm boats, you know, the usual). I think my only viable solution here is to take a break from Skyrim for a while and then simply get over it. Thanks for the responses.

Sorry, i'm not rude i'm honest...

i don't see any wrong on my earlier post.

And please don't lose your sense of humor...

As for the Teldryn Sero there are some bugs you may consider:

• If dismissed, Teldryn can sometimes go missing and won't appear back at the Retching Netch in Solstheim, if dismissed in Skyrim, he's often found near the boats in Windhelm, due to a glitch in his path-finding.

• If dismissed in Solstheim, he's often found outside of the Retching Netch.

Beside that, normally followers can 'go missing' when you tell them to wait somewhere and you forget about it.

Or maybe a questline in the Dawnguard forced you to part with him to accept Serana ?????

(If so, did you try to go back to the "Darkfall cave" and looked for him there? maybe he is stuck somewhere.)

If you didnt get a letter of Inheritance, then he is still alive, just waiting somewhere, if you cannot find him in Windhelm or in or outside of the Retching Netch.

Wait for two days and see if the text pops up that your follower wont wait longer and has left your services. In this case you can find him at the listed places.

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You could also try to reload a save where you still had him...

As for the fox pet, you can wait if some of your girls*** (kids) find's another one, as i have read it's randomly on skyrim.

They will randomly appear to follow your child home. Your adopted kid will ask you if they can be kept.

Disagree and wait, eventually a new animal will follow your child home, giving you another shot at your desired pet.

***And i say girls because i think the girls bring home the "cute" pets like bunnies and foxes, while the boys bring home mudcrabs and frostbite spiders.

Mark, what? You don't honestly think I meant you, do you? I meant the OP, whose reply to you was rude.

Ha, ha i got the memo, sorry i mean i lost my mind for a liitle searching for a possible solution with that Fox you know...lol