Grace period before people loot your spoils

Since a really really long time ago (maybe January 2006) this has applied to any pet without looting items. If it walks over an item, the player can't pick it up anymore, and you have to wait a few seconds.

If they've fixed it that'd be nice >_< For the first couple months I had a pet, it was just a friendly companion, but then it started interfering with drops so I had to splurge the extra $5.00 to let it loot >_<

It is a huge issue if you have multi-pet and only one pet has the autoloot add-ons. If either of the other 2 pets are standing over mesos, the autolooting pet won't loot them. The mesos must not be touching any other pet for about 2 seconds before the autolooting pet will run over and pick it up.

And regarding pets without autoloot, if they are standing on top of an item, you can't pick it up until the 10-second timer is up. If you go to your inventory and double-click on your pet to get rid of it, you can pick up the item right away. Or, if you move around so your pet is not standing on the item, you can pick it up right away.

off topic: Heidi, you from Otago uni? I used to hear my friend complain about the internet connection on campus, saying that was only lil faster than dial up. o.O

Nah, I'm at Canterbury. The Internet on campus is crazyyy fast and the stuff in the halls isn't too bad either
Only thing wrong with it is that it does have lag spikes, sometimes pretty bad. But I prefer lag spikes over constant lag.