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In all my years I have not seen a ritual regarding a sacrifice of a dog, only heard it from the elders that the worst case scenarios require a dog. I have only heard of one that took place in Michigan where a german shephard was sacrificed. From the elders, they told me that only a dog is sacrificed when a person becomes very ill and is possessed by demons/evil spirits. There is a story of the dog and the Hmong. When God created the Hmong, god said that he does not want animals and hmong to see evil. So god gathered all of the animals of the world and the Hmongs and lined them up. He took hot ashes and said to everyone and everything that he does not want them to see evil spirits, and dusted everyone's eyes until they could not see the evil spirits but only everything around them. God dusted the Hmong's eyes and asked, "could you still see the evil spirits?" The Hmongs answered, "Yes I still can." And then god kept dusting the Hmongs eyes and other animals eyes until they saw no more evil spirits. BUT, the dog was very intelligent, he lied to god that he could not see the evil spirits, even though he did. So after all of this God sent everyone from his creation to earth and that is why the Hmong believe that the dog can see spirits. They also believe that evil spirits are very very afraid of dogs, so when a person becomes possessed, a shaman is called over to perform a trance ritual. The dog is asked to retrieve the kidnapped soul back from the evil spirits to the body and stand guard for one whole year. Then the dog is slaughtered and of course, eatened. (Hmong rarely eat dogs, it's a taboo for them, but the ill must eat it) The jaw of the dog holds the soul of the dog and is given to the shaman. After one year, the shaman will go back into a trance ritual to release all the sacrificed animals he performed the following year to go to heaven and reincarnate. The possessed soul of the ill will then be in the hands of the house spirits to govern and protect it from being possessed again.
In all my years I have not seen a ritual regarding a sacrifice of a dog, only heard it from the elders that the worst case scenarios require a dog. I have only heard of one that took place in Michigan where a german shephard was sacrificed. From the elders, they told me that only a dog is sacrificed when a person becomes very ill and is possessed by demons/evil spirits. There is a story of the dog and the Hmong. When God created the Hmong, god said that he does not want animals and hmong to see evil. So god gathered all of the animals of the world and the Hmongs and lined them up. He took hot ashes and said to everyone and everything that he does not want them to see evil spirits, and dusted everyone's eyes until they could not see the evil spirits but only everything around them. God dusted the Hmong's eyes and asked, "could you still see the evil spirits?" The Hmongs answered, "Yes I still can." And then god kept dusting the Hmongs eyes and other animals eyes until they saw no more evil spirits. BUT, the dog was very intelligent, he lied to god that he could not see the evil spirits, even though he did. So after all of this God sent everyone from his creation to earth and that is why the Hmong believe that the dog can see spirits. They also believe that evil spirits are very very afraid of dogs, so when a person becomes possessed, a shaman is called over to perform a trance ritual. The dog is asked to retrieve the kidnapped soul back from the evil spirits to the body and stand guard for one whole year. Then the dog is slaughtered and of course, eatened. (Hmong rarely eat dogs, it's a taboo for them, but the ill must eat it) The jaw of the dog holds the soul of the dog and is given to the shaman. After one year, the shaman will go back into a trance ritual to release all the sacrificed animals he performed the following year to go to heaven and reincarnate. The possessed soul of the ill will then be in the hands of the house spirits to govern and protect it from being possessed again.
