Can you make a pet stay close to a hunter while not drafted?

[hwoo]

I want to make more use out of my animals as in combat they straight up die straight away as the release option is far to simplistic. Leading my squad of wargs I've cared for for weeks to be slaughtered straight away.

At the very least I want to use them like hunting dogs. To have them stay close to my assigned hunter so that if a muffolo goes nuts I have a warg to back my colonist up. But so far the only way to do this is to make them combat selected and micro the hell out of your hunter which takes the fun out of it.

Any ideas or am I missing something.

Many thanks.