The History of the dog
June 29, 2016
Dogs are good companions and faithful to human beings but they also have struggled a lot to find this place among us. Their history will unveil their efforts to be the part of our lives, the way they are living today. Dogs are considered as a type of wolf. Dogs were among the few animals that were fed by the human beings for the sake of friendship and their safety. They were even older than sheep, chickens and cows that are also fed by the human beings for their other needs like dairy and foods. During 3,000 BC people who have been living in Central Asia take cares of the dogs, before the start of farming which may be as early as 10,000 BC. Most probably, dogs themselves initiate this step to begin relationship with human beings by lynching around their living areas and try to lift their garbage to fill up. Firstly, humans must have struggled to create panic for the dogs to move them away. But eventually, many of them apprehended that the dogs ate dead animals, rats and also assisted to clean up groceries garbage that drew flies as well as other insects. So finally the humans entered the dogs in their villages, campsites and living areas as they create a clean and healthy environment other than those without dogs. However, less number of people got dysentery and died. Also, Native American dogs moved to America from Asia.
Geneticists, archaeologists and morphology:
It is considered that the dogs are anciently found during the late Pleistocene era across the areas of Eurasia when hardly any other animal was known to humans. Earliest dogs were hard to make a difference from the wild wolf. Geneticists were vexed for about 20 years in distinguishing the dogs from wolves and also the archaeologists for several decades longer. Recognizing the most primitive dogs is hard because the main morphological characters that include proportion and size cranial and postcranial rudiments, dental pathologies, position and size of teeth are employed by zoo archaeologists to distinguish dogs from their feral wolf ancestors.
Anyhow the humans are still confused about the origin of dogs but they trained them according to their demands and needs. Dogs would growl if any huge animal or human enemy is approaching. Nowadays, dogs are served proper foods and are loyal friends to mankind but anciently there was not such concept as people just let them go to eat garbage and dead animals. Dogs with the sheep herd were fed with the food as they were the guards for the herds. Although human loves their pet dogs but still 3 out of 4 dogs are homeless and fed themselves on garbage and also they are not as sophisticated as the pets are. So be aware of these roaming dogs they might harm you. Dogs are lovable but always be careful of them as they belong to the family of wolves, they can be harmful for you anytime.
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