For what it's worth I think your response is more mainstream than the replies to you would imply: I've actually had conversations with people where I asked "imagine a robot dog that is actually perfectly indistinguishable from a real dog in every possible way: could you feel the same about that as a real bio dog?" Most people have a hard "no" even then, as though there is something actually magic about a bio-dog.

On the other hand I've also had people say they think it is bizarre that someone could love a dog any more than you can a tree, that they are a "thing" and don't have "real" thoughts and emotions like people do (just fake/emulated ones that we breed into them), so I don't think the philosophical ideas are broadly accepted for this.