At least twenty years ago I read a short story or novella I can’t remember the title of to find again.
It’s told in the first person. I forget the circumstances but the storyteller meets a guy who has a pack of trained Dobermans. The dog owner seems to be kind of crazy. To show off his dogs training he points at the storyteller and says “Kill!” The Dobermans proceed to jump up and down on the guy, trying to lick him, playful as can be.
At the very end of the story the guy has fallen out badly with the doggy man, who has him trapped in a room and is breaking in. He points at the doomed man and gives the command “Kiss!”
I didn’t find anything useful at Amazon with the author’s name. They had a link to something called an “enabled wikipedia page” which was useless. There was nothing enabled about it.
Anthony Lawrence was a TV writer, creator, and occasionally actor; he is associated with Columbo. When they say “story by Anthony Lawrence,” I don’t think the mean they got it from a book, I think they mean he came up with the story and handed it off to a writer.