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Watchdogs have been around ever since the first dogs decides to grow legs and walk out of the sea, it is unknown at what point the word was first used to signify a person or group that watches over someone else. It is also unknown why such persons and/or groups call themselves watchdogs and not, say, watch-eagles (known for their much keener eyesight) or even watch moles. As with all watchers people have to ask the question "Who watches the watchdogs?"

[edit] Watchdog subspecies

There are several kinds of watchdogs besides the people who just calls themselves Watchdogs.

[edit] Canine watchdogs

Also known as ordinary watchdogs since these are the only watchdogs that are actually dogs. Matters are complicated though, by the fact that these dogs not only watch, but smell and hear as well. Most of them seem to rely more on smelling and hearing than their sight leaving the name watchdog somewhat misleading. A suitable alternative have never shown it self.

[edit] Chronological watchdogs

Dogs wearing watches or dogs hanging out with watches or keeping close company with watches. The best example of watchdogs in action can be found in the paintings of Salvador Dalí. Watchdogs may have played a significant role in the Great Time Travel War of 1871 but we don't know this for sure. Since nobody watches the watchdogs they have a tendency to go rather unnoticed.

[edit] The Watchdog/Watchmen controversy of 1974

In the early seventies comic writer Alan Moore was working on a project for the Disney Corporation codenamed "Watchdogs". The cast of Watchmen; Clockwise from top: Doctor Manhattan, the Comedian, Ozymandias, the second Nite-Owl, Rorschach, Captain Metropolis, and the second Silk Spectre. Art by Dave Gibbons, coloured by John Higgins.

in 1974 Moore had developed most of the storyline and was deeply involved with fleshing out the characters when his work was showed to a test audience. Alan More was against this test screening from the beginning, claiming his work was still gestating.

The test resulted in a series of demands from the Disney executives:

• More had to introduce a diversity of species to the cast, in order to avoid criticism of blatant racism. Ducks were mentioned as an alternative to dogs allowing for clever wordplay in the marketing of the comic. "Quack, quack, who watches the Wacthducks?"
• The setting of the comic was to be changed from contemporary New York to rural Belgium in an attempt to direct the social satire away from Vietnam-era USA and towards chokolate.
• Last but not least More was ordered to remove a series of scenes depicting the watchdogs marking their territory (as dogs do). Using ducks instead of dogs would have had the same effect.

Deeply insulted by the demands Moore withdrew the project and shelved it. Years later he signed with comic book upstart DC Comics and revived the project now called "Watchmen". All references to animals had been removed, in a rewrite many critics feel lost the series it's original edge.

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