Didn’t the Khmer Rouge shoot family dogs which lived under the stilted huts allowing that said Khmer Rouge could sit under the huts to hear what families were saying about the government/breaking some miniscule law?
These trigger happy “police” officers are working on their intimidation skills, but need to bone up on sneaky.
It’s much harder to conduct mass stealth raids on unsuspecting citizens if the family dog barks an alarm.
Therefore...