I believe without training (which can be purchased) that the dogs would not be able to do the attack you have described as that would give your character an insane advantage over everyone else. To combat an advantage like that, I would have to scale your enemies up which would not be fair to the other players either as they don't have your dogs. For now, the dogs are allowed as travelling companions but if you would like to use them in combat it will require training and be limited to one dog. For the training I will come up with a way for you to either drop them off with a trainer in a city and come back for them or perhaps buy a book and you will have to spend x number of hours training to do certain things. I'll have to think on it some. Now, if the dogs are attacked I believe they would defend themselves, but currently the guards have not done anything to the dogs.[@rush99999]