I am the dog

Back in my younger, wilder days, I did have moments where I felt that my dog and I were one, but those moments were brief and artificially produced. My current dog is old and her day consists of long periods of lying on the floor and resting or even sleeping, punctuated by high activity levels around meal time. Since I've continued to do the cooking even while sick, this mirror my patterns pretty much perfectly.

I only had some anecdotal data, such as the fact that yesterday both the dog and I went outside the house 3 times for the exact same period, because I only went outside to walk the dog.

Now, however, I have compiled the following data

November 17
My time spent lying on couch (MTLC), resting or sleeping: 14.5 hours
My time working in kitchen (MTWK): 55 minutes
Dog's time spent lying on the floor (DTLF) resting or sleeping: 14.75 hours
Dog's time sniffing around kitchen (DTSK): 52 minutes

November 16 (I was out of the house for part of the day so can only note what happened when I was home)
MTLC: 10.25 hours
MTWK: 47 minutes
DTLF: 10.25 hours
DTSK: 45 minutes
and so on...

I have data going back a month and the correlation is well over 90%, and the overlap of specific times of day  for all of these measures is also over 90%. So there is only one conclusion to be made; from a statistical standpoint, my dog and I are indistinguishable. Since math is the only thing that matters, I am therefore my dog.