#he didnt want y/ns little safe haven to be discovered and destroyed just because he happened to be seen

[semisolidmind]

Random person getting mulled to death by Dogday: GET YO FUCKN DOG BITCH

Y/n: He don’t bite.

Random person bleeding out: YES HE DO-

i mean, if said random person hadn't gotten so close to his house, the dog wouldn't be mauling them, sooooo...

and as an aside; i imagine y/n doesn't know that dogday will occasionally attack people in the woods surrounding their home when they aren't there. y/n knows him to be against violence unless it's necessary (unlike their time in the factory, where he didn't have a choice), and the closest town doesn't really deliver newspapers out in the woods. so unless they pay attention to gossip when they go to work, there's no way for y/n to figure out that the supposed "monster" in the woods mauling people is their friend and housemate. there are cougars out there, it's probably just one of those.

and they know that dogday likes to hunt deer occasionally (and he sometimes eats them all by himself), so they don't suspect anything when he comes home covered in blood. he's just a little messy, that's all. they clean him off and welcome him back in, none the wiser.

#as much as i wanna see dogday as thos sweet innocent fella who would never hurt a fly #hes a monster just like the rest of the toys and came from the same environment #that kind of learned violence and survival instincts would be hard to unlearn #and he can justify it by sayin he was protecting y/n and the others from being discovered #protection was likely the reason for his first kill outside the factory and it was probably a snap decision #he didnt want y/ns little safe haven to be discovered and destroyed just because he happened to be seen #so he did what he felt he had to