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Man's best friend, a creature bred for friendship, hunter's aid, and police work. They have been by humankind's side for 16.000 to 32.000 years and are mankind's best invention only on par with porn, beer, and the internet. They are loyal and fierce, masking that with goofiness.
They've been bred into different forms over the countless millennia; from protection to fighting and even pulling carts. There are even dogs that can sniff out cancer.. An extensive list of dog breeds can be found here.
Origins
A long time ago when mankind was a bunch of hunter gatherers we left a trail of scrapes that attracted predators and soon they started following us. One of these were wolves, eventually they became useful to humans, seeing the use of having animals that can be used for guarding and hunting. They kept the wolves, and over time somebody had the genius idea of breeding based on certain traits and soon this caused an artificial evolutionary tree. Through primitive genetic engineering selectively breeding things like fluffy coats for surviving colder weathers, thick skin for fighting other dogs, search and rescue and so on. Over 36.000 years they have been bred for millions of different tasks, but have also been one of the most wide spread companions. They have even been sent into the Black reaches of space.
Warhammer Fantasy
The ruinous powers have Flesh hounds of Khorne essential very grouchy and blood thirsty puppers that have taste for psykers and wizards, Chaos is apparently hoarding all the doggos because the chaos warhounds are are part of the warriors of chaos faction and one addition could actually take marks of chaos as an upgrade.
The thought of a dog gaining enough infamy to ascend to a Daemon Prince would be hilarious.
Warhammer 40k
Dogs, like humans, have been spread across the galaxy after 40 thousands years of space travel and colonization though some places are probably lacking dogs, for a wide variety of reasons, still the fact of having a loyal companion might be useful in some places honestly it's odd why Games workshop hasn't given the Imperial Guard attack dogs they'd be perfect for harassing light infantry and directing Melee away from your firing lines, hell have them swarm Failabbadon and watch as the other player bangs his head on the wall as abbadon was Doggy piled to death, as cool as that would be sadly tabletop wise we have yet to have dogs units besides space wolves and those aren't even real wolves if where getting real about it. Dogs on forge world's are probably varying levels of health as the pollution and industrial waste could poisen the poor stray puppers though they'd probably adapt to life on said forge world, however they'd be likely to be adopted and used as guard dogs or food.
The Adeptus Arbites have cyber mastiffs dogs who have been augmented so far that their essentially a dog's brain in a robotic body making them Robocop dog
The Adeptus Mechanicus also have cybernetic hounds which are used as cyber familiars and guard dogs, so that's a thing.
The Elucidian Starstriders rogue trader kill team has a dog. It's currently the only normal non-demon dog playable on the tabletop in 8th Edition.
Some Imperial Guard regiments have dogs now. They probably outrank you.
Magic: the Gathering
Since Hound is a creature type, they are practically on every plane of existence in one form or another, this also means Some planes have them walk upright.
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