Is that more or less sensible than the position of "here's another social land mammal of roughly similar size that evolved on the same planet, yet I'm going to assume they are completely different and inscrutable and don't have any real sort of consciousness or emotion"?

(Especially in response to an article about academics studying animal emotion and mental states. If you want to disagree, let's not anecdotally say "dog owners are silly lol", let's rebut "Twenty years ago, Overall and other experts began to suggest the dog be used as a model for human psychiatry. The same types of mental illness don’t occur naturally in rodents; researchers have to induce them.")