Yes I know this has been mention by others, but I do it again.
Give us it as a temporary thing. Any other proffesion (Except MP and Crat ofcource) can start fire at the enemy the moment they enter a room. Give us the same opertunity. (<TAB> - /pet warp - /pet attack) You may remove it when you feel the pet pathing is good enought again.
Untill you fix the pathing give us something to do. When I cancle my account (Witch I am considering every day when playing my belowed lvl 164 Enginer) I will only write "pet pathing" as reason. I love AO, but I get so frustrated when I am teaming with the pet that I allready have bought a spare keyboard for the moment I gonna break the one I have now (I have actualy found out that KeyTronic has made a much stronger keyboard then I excpected it to be. Espessialy the "5" key (Who is my /pet follow macro))