Dogs. They are a horrendous idea on Treyarch's part. Not that it isn't realistic, but it kills a little fun for the more realistic experience. On certain maps, like Hangar, Castle and Seelow, dogs are a fair gameplay mechanic as you can easily see them coming and combat them properly.
However, on small maps like Dome, they are simply an unfair advantage. You can't hide, can't fight and can't really even run away due to the fact that even with a tiny amount of latency a dogs head is actually a foot or so in front of were you will see it. Dome allows a player to run around with the dogs, killing anyone they sniff out, sure this is an innocent enough tactic, but with Dome you can clear the feild in mere seconds, a player with brains and angle could wipe a team and have dogs before his teammates dogs are dead or retreating. I find this almost game breaking, as the process will simply be repeated and more dogs called, eventually forcing the team into one spot and spawn camping them as there is no easy way to actually fight the dogs due to latency allowing a dog to hurt you even if you knifed it in that same lunge (on this note, having an effective blocking method out of meleeing would fix most problems)
I beleive small maps should not have dogs, but instead a second Recon plane, or even artillery. Courthouse and Dome are the smaller maps were dogs literally allow for a chance at 150-200 point gains for doing nothing but mooching kills when they show you were everyone is hiding. A fine tactic, but again, unfair on maps too small to actually properly hide on.
I actually beleive a good alternative to dogs on tiny maps like dome is a 'Tabun Bomb'. Imagine an enormous Tabun grenade that fills an area with smoke, and at first has the effect of the Tabun grenade. The smoke lasts maybe 3/4 to the complete duration of the Artillery, but the tabun effect only works within the initial five seconds as the smoke spreads. This is an area effect allowing for both healong rushes, camper annihalation and even forcing opponents to go a specific way into traps. In reality, it is no more unrealistic then juggernaut magically boosting a humans ability to eats bullet or stopping powers strange way of making guns suddenly hurt more. It definitely rings as more fair then dogs endlessly killing, spawn camping and leading people to you for cheap kills.
With that said, their is nothing quite as gamebreaking as magically summoning a small pack of dogs with your mind and having them spawn kill, glitch through walls and jump two stories high to get into a campers window (I witnessed this last glitch with my own two eyes, thank god those dogs were mine.)
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