Me thinks thou doth protest too much.
If Lassie says Jimmy is stuck in the well, and I go see Jimmy stuck in the well, I really don’t care if a dog was the source of the information.
And your obsession with the identity of ONE of the sources, while ignoring the content of the information, is very “liberalesque” in the debating style you are employing.
Dogs don’t talk. So why would you follow his instructions without finding out more about this “talking dog”?