Posted on 02/24/2010 1:00:41 PM PST by JoeProBono
Small dogs the world over can all trace their ancestry back to the Middle East, where the first diminutive canines emerged more than 12,000 years ago.
A new study, which appears in BMC Biology, focused on a single gene responsible for size in dogs. Researchers found that the version of the gene IGF1 that is a major determinant of small size in dogs probably originated as a result of domestication of the Middle Eastern gray wolf, which also happens to be smaller than many other wolves.
In terms of which came first, big dogs or small dogs, the answer is now the former......
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The original little dog was soooo small it was just a spot.
I don’t know. I’m still pretty sure my Rat Terrier (Terrier-ist) came from Outer Space.
Little doggies come from little pe*kers!
Get a long little doggie. - Gene Autry
Exactly, Cute little guy too.
ROTFL!! I'll never think of that line the same!
I knew a few small jihadist dogs.
Yet the origin of Obama remains a mystery.
We now know more of the background and history of dogs, and Extraterrestrials, than we do of Obama.
Perhaps this is all because a dog is from honest stock, a being on integrity, loyalty and fairness.
If a dog were to resemble the makeup of Obama, it would be an endangered species.... that would hopefully become extinct.
Will short dogs ever demand reparations?
Cutest dog.
Yet the origin of Obama remains a mystery.
We now know more of the background and history of dogs, and Extraterrestrials, than we do of Obama.
Perhaps this is all because a dog is from honest stock, a being on integrity, loyalty and fairness.
If a dog were to resemble the makeup of Obama, it would be an endangered species.... that would hopefully become extinct.
Will short dogs ever demand reparations?
Yet the origin of Obama remains a mystery.
We now know more of the background and history of dogs, and Extraterrestrials, than we do of Obama.
Perhaps this is all because a dog is from honest stock, a being on integrity, loyalty and fairness.
If a dog were to resemble the makeup of Obama, it would be an endangered species.... that would hopefully become extinct.
Will short dogs ever demand reparations?
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