Purchased horse keeps walking away

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surfergirl14

New Member
Hi, so whenever I dismount my horse, it keeps slowly walking away...is this a bug? It never used to do this until now. Is there anything that can be done to stop this happening?
Thanks
 

Gemini Sierra

Pre-emptive Salvage Specialist
I've seen this happen with horse that I haven't purchased. I found a horse on the road and "stole" it. after riding it a bit I got off it to enter a cave and it wandered off. I found a horse at Riften once that said "Ride Horse" when I went to activate it. Wasn't flagged as stolen or anything. It did the same thing to me. dismount and it walked away. When I actually buy a horse, when I go to ride it, the activation reads "ride <character name>'s horse". This horse will usually stay where I park it. It might move a few steps in one direction or another. It will also race off to fight enemies near by unless I park it far enough away. Often in fighting it will keep fighting until I shoot the enemy it was attacking. At that point it often runs off, but not to far away.

So, I'd say, make sure when you go to ride the horse that it says "Ride <your character name>'s Horse".
Otherwise it might run away.
 

SaveVsBedWet

Well-Known Member
Hi, so whenever I dismount my horse, it keeps slowly walking away...is this a bug? It never used to do this until now. Is there anything that can be done to stop this happening?
Thanks

Actually, I've got a sure fire way of keeping this from happening over and over, cause I know it can be annoying.

It's called, A MACE to the FACE!!!

You see, the dead don't...gallop
 

Venima

Member
I came across the same problem, owned horse decided to walk off for miles. Assuming you're playing a pc version, a quick fix would be to kill it, and then resurrect it using console. That should stop the wandering. (It will often not appear alive again until you mount it, it'll appear to be invisible with an identical corpse beside it, look around for the mount UI to appear)

The cause is probably because you've either purchased or ridden a different horse but decided to ride this one again before it has returned to it's associated stables (they return to their stable if you choose a different horse to ride).

If you can't or don't want to kill and resurrect, what you might be able to do is go to the stables that sell the same type horse, then dismount and it should stop wandering once it's got close enough. But I haven't tried this method out.

Edit: It seems these solutions may not be permanent. Give it an ingame week though, should sort itself out, I say should... *sigh*
 

Dagmar

Defender of the Bunnies of Skyrim
**necropost**
I doubt the OP will ever see your post since this was posted over 7 months ago and she hasn't logged on since.

Since you've resurrected a dead thread already, you may as well take note that since patch 1.6 a purchased horse that is killed will eventually respawn and wander back to its stable. If you purchase a new horse at the stable it is possible to mount the respawned horse by mistake and whenever you dismount the respawned horse it will wander away from you.
 

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