Dogs are

"Dogs are more than just dog people. The dogs that you see here are just as much dogs as you or I are – not the same, not less, in fact, much more than we. We all know dogs – that's part of being a human. We also know the dogs of the past, the dogs of the present and the dogs of the future. You could say we know the human past through the dogs of the past. We know our past through the dogs of the present and the future; but how we know the human future isn't so clear." ~ Michael Pollan