Skyrim is an old game. It initially came out in November 2011 and has, partly, been kept afloat by a passionate community of modders. Some mods offer small renovations to things like melee combat, while others might as well be expansions of their own. After all this ruddy time, though, we've only just got a mod that lets us give Skyrim's best boys a pet.
JaySerpa's Pet the Dog mod lets you do just that. Walk up to a pupper while you have no weapons, magic, or fists equipped - it isn't polite - and a short petting animation will play when you interact with them. JaySerpa says he's packed this one with three different animations for optimal petting scenarios: one for when the dog is sitting, another for when the doggo is standing, and a third for when the pupperino is lying on the ground. The dog may swap animations when you pet it, making you look foolish. Just ignore that, though. It's fine.
"I realize this might seem like a joke mod given the date (April 1), but I assure you it is not," the modder declares. "After ten years, we've seen all sorts of, ahem, interesting mods, but there is one key aspect that was always missing, so I made it happen.
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