I concur 100%. We have a little rescue mutt, who gives my wife and me 110% of the love that he has. We don't know what he was rescued from, but suspect it was an abusive hoarding situation. He goes apeshit if any other person comes around, and he doesn't like any other animals.

At the time we adopted him, my wife was on Facebook, and we read where he was adopted and then returned to the SPCA because he bit his new owner. When they brought him in the room to meet us, he immediately jumped up in my lap and wouldn't stop licking my face. I believe dogs know when they're around a good person who won't hurt them. This was several years ago, and he still cowers every now and then if I make a wrong move, but I've never hurt him. Whenever I see him do that, I have to stop everything and love on him, and play with him, to reassure him that everything is OK.

I could do serious bodily harm to the person or people who did this to him.