@davremedy I think it's nice that they balance such a powerful ability with an offset. That it's possessed by an animal that is concerned with an animal's concerns and doesn't necessarily care anything for human schemes and plans is pretty funny to me and not at all an overpowered and unexplainable story mechanic (i.e. deus ex machina). For instance, when it spent an afternoon stomping on a bug and resurrecting it just so it could continue playing with it. Such awesome power used on a bug for self-gratification. It's just silly.
And I always pictured Kikurage as more of a cat than a dog. Maybe it's just me...