There are no bad dogs, only bad dog owners.
But a cat is a cat is a cat, no matter what, good or bad.
“There are no bad dogs, only bad dog owners.”
No, THAT is nuts. I’m tired of this liberal-like namby-pamby “it’s all the human’s fault”, evidenced on many dog-attack threads here. Sorry, they are autonomous animals - just like the cats you hate - who have minds of their own. Sometimes, those minds are poor. Sometimes, they are born bad (hence why we try to pick a good pup out of a litter, rather than just any pup will do). Sometimes, they acquire a disease or condition that renders them bad.
Sometimes it’s the owner, but it is NOT always the human’s fault. Not every animal who acts poorly in the shelter was “abused” by some human. Sometimes they’re abandoned exactly because they have that poor character.
And if it is the owner’s fault - to what extent do you consider “abuse”? I could say people who treat their dogs like “humans” and kootchie-koo them and spoil them (rotten) are pushing the dog to rotteness, and thus it’s abuse. Or is it just when the dog is blatantly kicked around?
Dogs are not automatons, robots who are always exactly so. They are living beings with very different personalities, as different as their exteriors have come to be.