Months of intense training, to have a dog sit still, proves dogs are people too. Hmm...
I’m sensing a nut bag here. And I am a dog lover, a dog is a dog, is a dog.
A dog is a dog but a dog is not a wolf. I think all the thousands of years of domestication have bred many desirable traits and uses into dogs, including companionship, which would require some emotions to match ours.