I'm willing to judge an animal based on what it would do with its limited autonomy.

Yeah, I'm really not. Most non-human animals, dogs in particular, do not have the cognitive ability to make moral choices. Whether or not the dog "enjoys" doing the terrible things its handler commands or allows it to do is completely irrelevant. It simply does not have the autonomy to be a moral agent in my view.

If someone forces you to drive a car through a crowd, you're still morally culpable if you try to hit people.

Yeah because you have the cognitive functions to make moral judgements. If you were a dog and you took those same actions, you would simply not be morally culpable because you wouldn't have had the cognitive functions to make moral judgements.

Considering the stakes of bastarddom are pretty low, I'm willing to judge an animal based on what it would do with its limited autonomy.

I mean "bastarddom" is closely linked to notions of what constitutes justice. In particular, while there's never anything wrong with defending yourself against non-human animals, I would be completely and utterly against punishing or destroying police dogs as part of police abolition because "they're cops". They deserve exactly the same love and dignity that all dogs deserve, even if their handlers made them do terrible things.

Furthermore...I never said that you have to like these animals, or even any animals. I'm not in the business of telling people what they like or don't like. What I'm saying is that dogs are not morally comparable to cops. Obviously some dogs are more annoying, more obnoxious, less helpful, etc., than others. But they all deserve the same baseline level of dignity regardless of how we personally feel about them.