Picture this: you’re walking down the sidewalk on a bright summer’s day. A K-9 patrol vehicle parks nearby – and instead of a dog getting out of the backseat, something more Terminator-esque emerges: a tactical robot.

This is the future that PETA has imagined for us all, judging by a letter from the animal rights group in response to a K-9 injury in Michigan last week. Digo, a canine with the Grand Rapids Police Department, was nonfatally stabbed three times, once in the head, while working to help police apprehend a violent suspect. 

In response, PETA wants robots and drones to replace the animals entirely.

“Unlike their human counterparts, K-9s do not sign up to risk their lives,” PETA Manager of Special Projects Allison Fandl wrote in a June 2 letter to Interim Chief Joseph Trigg. “They are loyal and protective,........

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