To ward off these desert gravediggers, the Ancient Egyptians made offerings to a jackal-headed god of death called Anubis, or Anpu in Ancient Egyptian.
Thoth was also an underworld god and appeared alongside Osiris and Anubis in the Hall of Truth, where the heart of the soul was weighed against the feather of truth.
If Egyptians worshipped cats, then why didn't Anubis have a dog head, is kind of like being asked, " If people descended from monkeys, why are they still monkeys? "