User blog comment:Callofduty4/Ghosts PC Title Update 11/19/13/@comment-5610200-20131120134536/@comment-25494464-20131122132942

You don't have to earn kills to obtain your weapon though. Five kills can be a challenge depending on the other team, teammates, map, etc. There's too many variables to consider how hard it is to get any type of kill streak to be honest. It's not completely silent and it usually runs directly at you (I've been killed from the front by a dog more than I have from the back). Lowering health of the dog is enough to ensure that you can get a few shots on target and kill it. Making it a two hit kill is too much of a nerf and will more than likely make it useless (you can easily knife it). Lowering health also gives shotguns back their close quarters advantage, allowing them to one hit the dog. So I say lower the health, and leave it be.