Dogs should be treated accordingly...
møøslimbs regard them as unclean animals, beneath contempt.
True...
Even more reason to keep holding dogs in high regard.
If the cultists within Islam detest dogs, then that is all the more reason for Western Civilization to treat dogs as “man’s best friend.”
A great example of this is the work that Pups for Peace does. P4P train dogs to detect explosives and then deploy the dogs to Israel (and now also in California) to perform counter-terrorism operations.
Check out P4P at: http://www.pupsforpeace.org/
While I can understand many of the points being made on this posting about dogs being private property the fact remains that a “cute little bunny” or a hamster or rats or mice do not have the same relationaship to man as does the dog.
Due to man’s domestication of dogs, dogs have a natural affinity for people. IHO, this should place dogs at a higher level of worthiness than some rodent or snake.
Dogs are regularly used to rescue and save human lives during earthquakes, anti-terror searches, police and fire, etc.