Dogs were here first. They failed in getting rid of these foreign invaders.
Well...if you don’t count bobcats, ocelots, cougars, jaguars ,jaguarundi, and lynx, and the extinct sabertooths and American lions.
A ceremonially buried bobcat kitten was found in an archaeological dig in Illinois.
An interesting dog is the Northwest’s Salish wooly dog, which were only owned by women weavers and were kept separate from other dogs on islands to prevent them from breeding with dogs that did not have the desirable genetics to grow wooly hair. When traders showed up to sell inexpensive bolts of cloth, it unfortunately spelled the demise of the breed, so it went extinct. They looked somewhat like a big Pomeranian but unlike normal dogs, the hair was uniquely suited for making cloth.