I think what you’re not getting is that dogs are neurologically wired different from humans, and so experience the world differently.

So a dog’s sense of self is different from a human’s, its sensory inputs are different, and its language processing is different.

It’s kind of like those AI models a decade or so back that were really good at identifying where a picture was taken — and then it turned out they’d mapped the relationship between the geolocation numbers in the EXIF data and weren’t looking at the image data at all.