Hi there
the game itself crashes maybe every 20 minutes which i have learned to just deal with because there's nothing to fix that however the most recent time this has happened to me while traveling to a new base which took me multiple hours. I decided to take one cat with me, after nearly getting to the base the game crashed. I immediately restarted the game and not much progress was lost which is pretty usual, like a few steps back from where you were. Except this time my pets were 100% gone. So incredibly frustrating when you are being so patient and making sure your pets are following you the entire way. I really hope you look into this bug
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We're actually already tracking this issue at MCPE-21416, so I will resolve and link this ticket as a duplicate.
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