Whats up with dogs and the fundie crowd

Pets boost our humanity on the cheap and the most loyal of man's friend is a dog. The fact is that dogs are mentioned in good light in the certainty of the Quranic verses.

When people say Islam forbids keeping dogs as pets, what they really mean is there are reports especially by one cat loving Sahaba who claim that the Prophet Pbuh said so, these reports then changed numerous hands and reached us through a dizzying route, certified through a closed review process and classified using no clear methodology. Now that is a very long shot from God forbids, the other obvious problem is there is no reference of such forbiddens in the certainty of God's own word, the Quran. 

Abu Huraira also seems to be one of the few given a "free pass" as far as spotless character myth of all the Hadith reporters go. Not to mention blatent contradictions within the Hadith literature. Here is an example that boggle the mind;

Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 4, Number 174:

    Narrated Abu Huraira:

    The Prophet said, "A man saw a dog eating mud from (the severity of) thirst. So, that man took a shoe (and filled it) with water and kept on pouring the water for the dog till it quenched its thirst. So Allah approved of his deed and made him to enter Paradise." And narrated Hamza bin 'Abdullah: My father said. "During the lifetime of Allah's Apostle, the dogs used to urinate, and pass through the mosques (come and go), nevertheless they never used to sprinkle water on it (urine of the dog.)"  

That brings us back to the on going issue of which reports are fabricated and which are not. The issue is further complicated in the follow up reports that tries to justify this suspect ban on dogs in the house. The subsequent reports state that Angels don't enter houses with dogs, a clear absurdity given what we know of Angels from the Quran, the very word of God. The issue is then taken to farcical levels by commentators who further classify (apologize) which type of Angels won't enter a house with a dog, of course without any basis except so and so said so.

Not to mention that dogs are supposedly permitted to catch your hunt in their mouth, slobber all over it and you eat it (washing it off and cooking it are implied), remember this is the same dog that which on contact needs seven + 1 washes of whatever utensil it drank from, (Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 4, Number 173 ) I don't care how much you wash your bleeding hunt and and how hard you cook it, it will not even come close to the seven +1  washes standard set for mere touching in subsequent commentaries.

The conclusion is, something went wrong and as always since the strategy of the Hadith peddlers has always been not to give an inch,(in order to protect the subjugating reports to control the Ummah, where rebellion against unjust rulers is forbidden, imagine that) they have no choice but to continue supporting the farce.