[Marilize]

I once read somewhere that you should treat your dog (your yorkie) as you would treat a person.

This cannot be true. Dogs are not HUMAN and dogs are not wolves. They are domesticated descendants from wolves. They were not bred from humans, they were bred from domesticated wolves. It is as simple as this.

Their body language does not correspond with ours. We don't lift our lips to bare our teeth when we are scared! But guess what, wolves and dogs and other ANIMALS do.
Dogs are the domesticated descendants of wolves and share certain traits. No dog is happy alone and wolves always live in packs - they are social animals. Dogs are very much like wolves and wolves are very much like dogs. No one said they WERE wolves, they just are LIKE wolves in certain ways (except the wild thing).
Dogs should never be treated as people. The way they sometimes mimic us - like my yorkie resting his head on my pillow - is incredibly adorable and endearing, but it does not make them our fellow human.
If it did, we would never be able to justify neutering or spaying them!
Our dogs are our dogs, and I hope - and pray - to God that it stays like that.