¹ Probably: or they may trample it, but the remainder of this saying -- a word or two -- is missing from the manuscript due to a lacuna or small hole.
The problem of the unknown ending of this saying can't make up for it's lack of context. Here the speaker (certainly Jesus) doesn't give any indication of who the pigs and dogs are or why we should avoid them. In the Sermon on the Mount, this saying follows two warnings about judging others: you will be judged the way you judge, and take the plank out of your own eye before you go picking a speck out of someone else's eye. In that context, Jesus is saying that passing along God's commands to people who don't even believe in God is not the way (1) to make a better world, or (2) to bring unbelievers to faith. The law, all by itself, doesn't create faith. The pigs and the dogs (unbelievers and enemies of the gospel) need to hear the gospel as well as the law.
The early Christian rule book called the Didache applies this statement by Jesus to our fellowship and the Lord's Supper (those without faith must not be allowed to take the Eucharist -- Didache 9:5). St. Paul makes the same application in 1 Corinthians.
And John said: If anyone comes to you and does not have this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him. Anyone who welcomes him shares his wicked work. (2 John 10-11)
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