Fear on PC's Pet breakable with /pet back?

[Gundalph]

I was playing on the Zeb server the other night, fighting against some Cleric-class NPCs, and my pet got feared. Not realizing right away why my pet was running around like a chicken with no head, I used the /pet back command and it returned to my side, whereupon I commanded it to attack again, which it did. After this I noticed that it had a Fear spell on it, which should have prevented it from obeying my commands. Continuing my battles, I was able to reproduce it again, when the pet is feared, it still will obey commands, which effectively means that if your pet is feared, you can just issue it a /pet back, and it breaks the Fear effect, but not the spell, as it does not cause the icon in the pet's buff window to go away.

If this bug has already been noted I apologize, I did a quick once over and didn't see it posted already but its possible I missed it. This bug would be easy to exploit, and honestly, it would be easy to exploit it unintentionally, as that is how I found it, not realizing my pet was feared at first.

While I'm typing here I would like to thank each and every person who has worked on the EQEmu/PEQ projects for all your hard work, I have been playing EQ since Classic (pre-Kunark), and it's awesome to have this game availible to play, for free, unspoiled by the purely money-driven interests of SOE. Thanks, y'all!!!!

That's all I have to say, thanks again for bringing us our favorite MMORPG, for free!!!

Gundalph out.