Ah the kobold, a very varied fantasy race in media

For those who don't know, early dnd had kobolds as more mixed-critter - a little doggish, a little rattish, a little lizard-ish. The really old manuals for it published by Becmi mentioned specifically a dog-like snout (even in Baldur's Gate 3 they're reptiles with little black dog noses). America went more the lizard route over time, but Record of Lodoss War's creator saw "dog-like snout" and made them full-on dog people, which was basically the first time non-D&D playing Japanese people saw kobolds, and the rest is pop-culture history.

Yup, and if you go before D&D made them doggish / rattish, traditional European mythology has them looking like little people, similar to Brownies or gnomes.

So basically the kobold went from little dudes to little dog dudes to little rat-like dog dudes to little scampy lizard dudes, and now you have folklore saying they’re hobbits, Japanese culture saying they’re dogs, Warcraft saying they’re rats, D&D saying they’re lizards, and Pathfinder/Starfinder saying they’re more like dragons / Dragonborne. It’s REALLY fascinating.