Ah, you misunderstood. Allow me to further clarify - there’s two statements in my post. The first is about pets picking up gold. The other is about pets picking up loot, which I will expand to also state my desire for them to pick up materials and perhaps auto-salvage rarities I specify.
I have little desire, altho I do it, to run over to where the enemy that RAN AWAY FROM ME while bleeding/poisoned dies and drops a rare (yellow) item.