Can I keep my skinned dog out of danger?

Question

In the Shivering Isles Expansion for Oblivion, you get a quest called Ushnar's Terror, as a reward you get his skinned dog.

Is their a way to keep the dog and essentially trap it in your house so It can't get out and you can keep it?

Answer 1

Sadly there is no regular way to keep the "Undead Hound" (Dog). If you are playing the PC-Version there may be some Plugins for Companions to handle your Quest-Reward.

As the Shivering Isle Wiki says:

The hound does not respawn and can't be told to wait, so it will be stuck with you until its demise. The hound is a permanent corpse, making it a useful storage device once it dies. The hound doesn't travel with you when you fast travel. Instead, its Speed is temporarily increased to 255 and it will chase after the player, occasionally causing it to lag behind.

So the only way to get Rid of it, is to multiply fast-Travel to Long-Distance Locations, or to let it Die in any preferred way oO

Link to Wiki: Ushnar's Terror - The Skinned Hound