When I approach my animals they begin to follow and can’t be sat down

Whenever I approach my animals (birds, cat, dogs, etc) they begin to follow unless I get far enough away, then they sit with the exception of the birds.

If, for instance, I have my cat sitting on my bed, when I walk close enough to it it will stand up and walk toward me. Once it begins following I cannot have it sit unless I travel a few blocks away and don’t let it catch up. When this happens it seems as though the animals can’t teleport to me with the exception of the birds who follow until I leave the game.

I have no idea what the cause is, but name tags, location and things like that don’t seem to matter. If I were to guess it might be the bird that might be the cause since it happened all of a sudden every time, but my bird died or disappeared and it stopped happening, yet I went to get another and the next time I got on it started again.