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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That's true - humans gonna human, so we're prone to treating animals under our care like shit. And also true that dogs have been domesticated by us so long that they'll often remain loyal even when we mistreat them. It's the mistreatment of animals that's the problem, not the ownership itself.