[Citizen Tom Paine]

I would say my guess is as good as theirs. I hold that dogs were first domesticated in the Arctic regions. These breeds show the characteristics of long periods of domestication.

[decimon]

I would say my guess is as good as theirs. I hold that dogs were first domesticated in the Arctic regions.

Given the nature of canids and of humans, my uninformed guess is that they could have come together in multiple locales.