If you switch to a different hotbar item or lose track of an animal following you while holding their associated food, they will not start following again until said item is dropped on the ground and picked up again.
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We're tracking this issue in MC-1002, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
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Duplicate of MC-1002 which was later resolved as "Works As Intended".