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It's not even how the dog was raised sometimes. It's how the current owner is.
We got a dog from the humain society years ago. They believed she'd been abused because she'd shy away if you even slightly raised your hand and she had other problems. She was found as a stray.
When we got her we started training. She was a smart dog (poodle) and learned quickly thankfully. We had her for so many years and trained her so carefully though that we could take her for walks around our part of town (we don't have the strict leash laws) and we could even pass someone with another dog but Daisy would heel perfectly. She barked when people came into the house but the command "no bark" was obeyed fairly well. I do recall her biting someone but that was a 10 yr old boy who was being a bully. He grabbed her by the ears and tried to lift her by the hair only. Even then she only nipped and when he released her she ran away. I'd bite too. She was put in her kennel for a while and I don't remember her biting anyone else.
If the master IS a master and not a servant to the dog the dog will obey their comments much better.
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"Always learn the rules so that you can break them properly." Dalai Lama
My Karma just ran over your Dogma. 
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