startFollowDistance: 12
stopFollowDistance: 4
teleportDistance: 40

Pets are crawling towards their owners slower than ants, they do not reflect the numbers set in the config. Pets will start to follow you when you're more than 2 blocks away from them. The Start and Stop follow distance in game looks like 0.3 blocks in length, whereas in config there should be a 8 block distance.
They teleport to you when you're about 5 blocks away from them, This is really really frustrating. I can sort of adjust it to my liking by significantly boosting the config numbers, something that looks like this:
startFollowDistance: 40
stopFollowDistance: 10
teleportDistance: 200
But these pets are crawling slower than mud! All they do is teleport because with their crawling speed they can never catch up with their owners, so they fall behind as soon as the owner starts walking and they just keep teleporting here and there.

what's up with that?