Silverback messages not published to the correct Kafka Topic - c#

I am using the library Silverback and Apache Kafka as the message broker.
I have a two message classes:
Animal (base class) which is published to / consumed from the "animals" Kafka topic
Dog (extends Animal, but doesn't have any additional property) which is published to / consumed from the "dogs" Kafka topic
When I publish the message of type Dog, Silverback publishes one message in "animals" and another message in "dogs".
I was expecting the message of type Dog to be published only on the "dogs" topic.

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The container gets a list of connection strings to the various databases and then starts to dispatch messages from their outboxes.
Currently we store the following information in our outbox (with examples):
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MessageBody: {"SomeProperty":"MyValue"}
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I can add more information to the table if needed to make this happen.
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For eg.
1)Last message processed (it's content)
2)Last message completed succesfully - Time and content.
This is for basic troubleshooting on my word to know, that message has atleast been recieved by the receiver.
Is it possible to do this?
What does it mean "Last message processed" and "Last message completed succesfully". If you have a constant stream of messages, at what point you would determine what's a last message.
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public interface IAuditable
{
DateTime Timestamp {get;}
string Username {get}
}
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This seems like a generally bad idea, since you're creating copies of the messages all over the place...
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See this link:
https://masstransit-project.com/advanced/audit.html
So you're better use their built in functionallity instead of creating observers and other hacks
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Metadata
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Message id
Message type
Context type (Send, Publish or Consume)
Conversation id
Correlation id
Initiator id
Request id (for request/response)
Source address
Destination address
Response address (for request/response)
Fault address

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How can I set up my modules properly? That is I need to somehow tell NSB, to auto subscribe for messages but only for the ones in a given namespace/assembly.
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#Chris-Bednarski's answer is correct, but I wanted to add that NServiceBus has auditing built-in which takes the complete messages and passes it on to another queue, so you don't have to do that yourself.
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http://particular.net/ServiceInsight

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