then you haven't spent much time around them

I would argue the same to you about rats and cows. My cousin had a chihuahua, I never said they weren't emotional.

We specifically bread dogs to be the way they are. They didn't just evolve along side us, we chose the wolves that were less aggressive and specifically bread them, breeding out the traits we found undesirable over the years and breeding in the mutations we liked. We never did that with any other animal except to make them more dense for eating. That's what I mean by manufactured, humans (through an extraordinary long amount of time) created the dogs we have now. It's not like it just happened out of nowhere, we made it happen (I'd actually argue our bond with cats is more natural in that sense).