Tamed dogs and cats won't leave me alone

I'm playing Minecraft SMP

I've tamed a couple dozen wolves and cats, brought them back to my home, bred them, and left them in a kennel. My plan was to position the cats around my house to keep away creepers, and take a couple dogs with me when I go adventuring. The rest have been made to sit.

My problem is that while I'm out and about for an hour or two, out of nowhere my animals will all warp to my position, regardless of how near or far I am from my home where they were told to sit. Having 50 animals warp to your position in a 2x1 mining tunnel is not a good time.

Is there anything I can do to keep my animals from warping to me all the time or am I going to have to do something monstrous?

Solution 1:

Kill them. Kill them all.

That is your only solution without a mod I believe

Sadly, I'm being serious. I have same issue. That's been my only solution so far without modding.

Solution 2:

Dogs, if made to sit, will stay sitting down without following you, unless you start being attacked. When you are attacked, your dogs will automatically come to your rescue, even though you probably don't need it. I find that it doesn't really bother me, but if it bothers you, you should probably kill them all. :(

Solution 3:

I'm not so certain about that. Playing SMP. At least twice when I was the only player on the server at the time I've had all my wolves or all my cats teleport to me. Also, while working parallel with another player on the server, his wolves spawned to him. He also experiences the issue while alone. Though possibly a chunk loading error, since the both of us have 'sitting-animals-spawned-to-me' errors while being the only player online, I find it unlikely that the issue stems from a player other than the pets' owner interacting with the populated chunk.