Find My Monkey Dolls event is awful

I don't think 30 seconds applies in party, I'm pretty sure I'm ripping up the monsters vs. my team mates and I sit back and allow my party members to loot a Monkey every once in awhile. It should be a rule that all members of HobPQ, carry around a Mutant Pig or Giant Spider, earrings on every run, if not two, and the aforementioned Monkeys.

My looting pet, Scales and all, seems to think the 30 seconds still applies. She won't pick up, or let me pick up, my party members' loot. And since I'm short-range, the ranged people usually kill everything before I can get to it.