You speak of them as if they’re some alien breed. I hear cats fighting in the streets all the time at night. I don’t mind it. Animals just being animals. Dogs barking is their way of communicating and they have just as much of a right to do so as us, even if sometimes theirs seems a bit aimless. Yeah, shush your dog if it’s barking incessantly, but we make way more noise than them on the daily with our cars, loud music, or even just shouting ‘DINNER!!!!’ to the household. They’re bad at personal space if someone doesn’t train them to respect it. They’re fast learners. The ones that do jump keep jumping in peoples laps because it’s usually met with people fawning over them. It’s the same as a naughty child who has parents who don’t discipline them. Pretty simple classical conditioning can alter a dogs behaviour most of the time unless said behaviour has been learnt through trauma.

When it comes to abuse - many people put up with and love their abusers. How could you expect a dog to know of independence from its owner when it’s never experienced or even seen the possibilities of what goes on between dogs and their owners in other homes. I wouldn’t rag on an abused person for not stabbing their abuser, and I wouldn’t rag on a dog for not biting theirs. Cycles of abuse are incredibly complex.