Game Mechanics: Pet aggro has been broken for several months

[Adron]

On live, the pet was an aggro demon; it was hard to save it even moving into melee range. Here, it is laughable.
There is another thread around with the mechanics of a % of pet aggro going towards the pet owner. whether real or not, it explains this practically perfectly.
when you get to 54 water pet, you don't mind it so much! just make sure to cancel the cooldown and get that resummoned pet some runspeed before taking off, watch it teach the critter a lesson for chasing you.