Kitt has been sent up to chapter 19.
I was gonna say: what he said...
but having read the rest of the thread, I am not going to get into this argument. Y'all know which side of the line I am standing on, and I am not going to comment on either fictional situations or real life ones I know nothing apart apart from media reports.
My only response is that I was brought up by one parents who geared dogs and one who loved them, and that I was attacked by dogs as a child, and yet, the greatest, most selfless creatures I have known have been dogs. They are as different as humans are.