Pet - Defensive attack range too low?

[Proto 1]

While leveling, having my pet on defensive seems to be near useless as it only will attack my target once it's nearly on top of me. Is anyone else having this problem?

 

Of course, just keybinding Pet Attack and Passive is the way to go anyways, but having a working defensive for chill grind time would be nice.

[Numi 0]

I'd recommend never moving your pet of passive, you need full control of it as a vanilla warlock.

 

With that said, Defensive means your pet will only defend you if you're being attacked IIRC, it's pretty bad as a default option, even with defensive I'd bet the pet would still be manually controlled to be even close to efficient.