Indigo, try opening up the pet window. It's that little picture of an owl (or is it a fox idk) to the left of your skillbar.
Ctrl+P, unless they changed it, brings up the display (the one alleryn talked about) where u can click 'x', or give other commands: 'stay' 'follow' 'attack or something (i forgot)'
Gah! Yep, that worked. Never seen this panel before. I knew the PET thing was there, but forgot about it because I've been busy leveling Animal Handling (wow, 28 already?), and Mentalism (which seems to be really useful with Goblins.)
NOW I gotta test out these new Pet Control buttons. I'm also thinking of trying to tame one of the 400 Health Panthers from North Entibule.
Many thanks for everyones suggestions on how to access this panel.
PG IGN: BlueIndigo
Steam: IndigoShade
Its shift+P by default now. You will get a message if of course you dont have a pet up..