I was thinking - if you fitted an animal with a sound or image link, couldn't you train it with the rules in RW to accept commands through them? If the dog has a sound link and hears a spoken command through it that it was trained to obey, wouldn't it obey just as if its master was standing there speaking? And couldn't you train the animal to respond to AROs? A blinking green ARO superimposed on a spot on the ground might mean, go to that spot and sit.
