Can tamed pets accidentally teleport into lava?

I've been having an issue with my dogs. Specifically, they keep dying while locked up tight in my fortress.

I've got a few levels, each three blocks high. As I'm going up and down doing stuff, my dogs follow me, but occasionally I hear one die rather quickly. My first thought was to blame Endermen, since I am building three high, they can easily have the run of the place. However, after placing a command block to zap those creepy dudes from existence every few ticks, the problem is persisting. Nothing else can spawn inside, I've checked and re-checked every nook.

I then had a bit of an epiphany:

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(Don't mind the command blocks, they're just a convenient mode of transportation as I work on a very large adventure map I'm building - the lava was just an experiment with using lava for lighting)

Is it possible for pets to accidentally teleport into lava while trying to follow you? I can't figure out what else is killing my dogs so randomly.

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Best Answer

Yes, they can. Pets currently don't do a good job of picking landing spots when they teleport. I've recently seen a video of some of the Mindcrackers using that to kill cats that another player had placed by causing them to teleport to where he was, which was over a lava pit. When the cats teleported, they fell in the lava.

The video can be seen here if you're curious as to how it happened.

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Do tamed animals teleport?

A way if you double right click it will make it so they can move around but not teleport to you.

How far can tamed cats teleport?

Once tamed, cats follow the player who tamed them. They do not despawn, no longer fear the player and purr or meow frequently. Like wolves, and with the same limits, they can teleport to a player who moves 12 blocks away.

How Far Can dogs TP?

Teleportation. Tamed wolves teleport to their owner, if they are more than 12 blocks away, with a few caveats. Teleporting resets the focus of a tamed wolf, so if a wolf is attacking a mob and teleports beside a player, it resumes following the player.

Do dogs follow if you teleport Minecraft?

In order for your pet to teleport to you they need to be in a loaded chunk. If you know where they are, and you can play with a friend, you have your friend stay near the pet to keep the chunk loaded, and then go to your destination to have them teleport. They also cannot be sitting.

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