Only humans can love, so love between a human and a dog is impossible. The yelping, tail-wagging and licking that dog owners think are signs of affection are only conditioned responses. To a dog, its owner is simply another animal that provides food. Its behavior is governed by instinct and conditioning. A dog may be useful as a sheep or cattle herder or in police work, but a household pet is useless and, therefore, worthless.
Anthropomorphism is the attributing of human traits to an animal, a god or an inanimate object.
Only humans are human, try as hard as animal enthusiasts do to make dogs human. They are a long way from being human, by millions of years. Recent killings by rottweilers and other dogs, not to mention a million bites a year, should convince anyone that a dog, a carnivore, does not deserve the place it has been given by misdirected people. The killing of a little girl in Michigan by a pack of dogs was to get food. They didn't know what a little girl is.