No dogs in Islam reasons....

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The instruction to kill street dogs in the town of Madina was only for a certain period. As for Muslims that opt to keep dogs as pet will have their daily rewards lessen.

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'whoever keeps a dog, two Qirats will be detracted from his reward each day, except a trained hunting dog, or a dog for herding livestock."
https://sunnah.com/nasai/42/16

The reason for killing dogs at that time was due to number of dogs being high in the town, and so they minimize the number of (unclean) animal especially the black ones.

"I was one of those who held up the branches from the tree away from the face of the Messenger of Allah (?) while he was delivering the Khutbah saying: 'If it were not that dogs were a nation among nations, then I would order that they be killed. So kill every one among them that is all black. There is one inhabiting a home in which they keep a dog but their deeds are decreased by one Qirat every day - except for a hunting dog, or a farm dog, or a sheep dog.'"

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As'salamu Alaikum dear brothers,

Jazakum Allah Khayr.  It is interesting to see the "black dogs" in the Hadiths, because black dogs in Arabia at time included:

1-  The African wild dogs, which eat their prey alive.

2-  Possibly hyenas.  They do belong to the canine species.  Their claws are dull, like all canines, and they only fight with their jaws.  Cats have curved claws, and they fight with their four claws and mouths/jaws.

These mentioned animals are also desert animals.  So black dogs definitely include those, in my opinion.  So most probably, the worst of the dogs back then were probably aliased as "black dogs".  Like our pitbulls of today (banned in England), the worst of the dogs back then were probably referred to as "black dogs" in the Middle East.  I don't think this was due to the actual color (like black=evil), but rather due to the fact that the much darker dogs were certainly the most feared if we include the African wild dogs and hyenas.

This makes perfect sense for me.

Take care,
Osama Abdallah

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I don't know why some foolish anti-Muslims complained about killing dogs in Islamic sources, but don't forget that Asian countries eat dog meats. I heard a lot of pro-dog activists demanded Chinese and Korean governments to ban dog meats. Also, I heard last year that there was a big food festival for dog meats in China, but I don't know how many dogs were slaughtered.

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The big problem is how they kill dogs before consuming them. It's literally torture,skinned alive and even beaten to death, seen lots of videos on that...simple logic points out to use less painful ways but i wonder how on earth it doesn't even come across their mind...Just say something about it and people will call you racist and tell you to check your privilege because apprently people lack food over there, i mean seriously i'm only asking for a more humane way to kill those dogs...