Right from Wrong?

Most of (at least social) animals have a certain kind of implicit "code".
Of course it´s "morality" is relative to (valid within) that "code".
And such "code" ussually gives some survival advantage.
Not sooooooooo different than humans........

I think they use their instincts. I think we go against ours.

No, I don't believe they have morals. But humans have domesticated them. Mostly the need isn't there to kill us. They aren't in survival mode like they may be in the wild before domestication.

I think most times humans project human traits onto them.

Dogs are weird how they actually changed their entire survival tactics and became a humans friend that allowed them to be brought in from the cold and fed and petted. If they knew somehow to endear themselve to humans to survive I can see them able to reason not to bite the hand that feeds them.
I'm sure somewhere a study has been done on their reasoning abilities

You don't know dogs @ all

As they say, there are no bad dogs, only bad owners.

I think it is ridiculous to hold animals, especially wild animals to the same code that humans have.

Over the number of years i have been here there are SWers that will post a comment to me about otters attacking other animals sometimes for sexual reasons. They do it to try and upset me because i love otters.... what they are actually doing though is displaying a huge ignorance of the animal kingdom, a privileged sense of ego that humans are the most intelligent creatures and lastly the petty extents they would go to to bully someone.

Wild animals live off instinct, the need for food, shelter and reproduction....anything further is recreational. A wild dog would attack if theybwere hungry or ifvthey felt threatened.

Tame animals however are trained, so whether they think it is right or wrong they are trained to behave and react in a way that we have taught them

They definitely know. If they’re domestic, they know if they harm their owner good things (food, shelter, positive interaction) will stop happening. My friend’s puppy, while playing, nipped my hand. He didn’t injure me, but it did hurt, and I said, "ouch, stop !". The puppy stopped immediately, looked worried, then licked my hand gently. When I petted him, he wagged his tail again, like he knew he was forgiven. And he seemed careful not to nip me again.

Right or wrong for whom?