Your typical dog in wolves' clothing -hahahahaha
Friendly wolf ping
Probably a little of both.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition ate many a dog.
Probably learned how to do that from some blabber mouth cat.........Just speculating.
This is a silly article. Regardless of whether man or wolf made the first move, the essence of domestication is selectice breeding. Man bred dogs. Wolves did not breed man.
Reminds me of Stan Freberg presents the United States of America, where the Indian chief remarks to Columbus, “Well, since we discover you ...” Of course, Columbus interjects, “What do you mean, you discovered us?” The Indian replies, “We come along, discover you here on beach.”
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OK, Here’s the transcript:
Native: Oh? You over here on a Fulbright?
Columbus: Huh? Uh, no,no, I’m over here on an Isabella, as a matter of fact. Which reminds me, I want to take a few of you guys back on the boat with me to prove I discovered you.
Native: What you mean, you discover us? We discover you.
Columbus: You discovered us?
Native: Certainly. We discover you on beach here. Is all how you look at it.
Boy, I’ve had that “We come along ...” in my head for so long it’s hard to believe it was never there.
“Moose hunters in alpine regions bring home 56 percent more prey when they are accompanied by dogs.”
It’s facts like this that make me believe this article...NOT!
Your typical dog in wolves' clothing -hahahahaha
My pugs, I have three, are definitely in charge.
Seems far more likely that some cute wolf cubs were found, especially after people killed the adults. Never underestimate the power of babies of any species.
What “really” happened: Wolves saw humans hunting and decided it would be better to let humans take all the risk hunting and all the wolves had to do was look up with big sad eyes and wag their tails to get a meal.
All this and a warm fire too!
(this is from a study of a dog whose only virtue was that he wasn’t twins)
Still going on.
This human gets up in the morning walks the dog, shaves, showers, goes to work, comes home, fixes dinner walks dog again...
The dog (American Bulldog, lucy), lies on heated pad, or chews her toys, or goes inside and outside via the dog door, plays with the cat until human comes home. Who is really the dominant species?
Dogs are smart enough to know a good gig when they have one.
I’m surprised the FR wolf haters haven’t shown up. Reading some of their posts you’d think we were in medieval Europe quivering in fear of the big bad wolf.
So early dog owners were ranchers?
So early dog owners were ranchers?
Author does not understand ‘ survival of the fitest’
He said:
“The short version is that we often think of evolution as being the survival of the fittest, where the strong and the dominant survive and the soft and weak perish. But essentially, far from the survival of the leanest and meanest, the success of dogs comes down to survival of the friendliest.”
What a bone head!
We didn’t domesticate felines, they domesticated us.
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