Rolling Stone considered “Was Dog a Doughnut?” to be one of the few “weaknesses” of Izitso. The album review, from July 1977, took an otherwise positive view of Cat Stevens’ second-to-last album, prior to his conversion to Islam and the subsequent abandonment of his career. Yet Cat Stevens’ least likely and most covert crossover hit was breezily dispatched with the following: “The electronics on (it) are a bit too robot like.” [Source]