Even better, you can get your dog to pick up your stone and take it to the shrine... Had to make use of that a couple of times doing Stealthy Repossession leet ;-) Gets rid of any aggro a treat, albeit for an xp penalty.
I love the way it keeps running off down a corridor, pausing, smashing a crate, then running back to you. But it's also a bloody liability - the number of fights it has dragged me into that way, and the number of traps it has set off. Plus the damn hireling cleric keeps burning up all its sp trying to heal it instead of leaving it to me.