Only 40 Genes Separate Your Pet Dog From A Wolf

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 11-22-2005 | Roger Highfield

[Sam Cree]

A Bimini dog. The article calls it a potcake.

[hosepipe]

Ah! but 41 genes separate you pet dog from a dogfish..

[AnAmericanMother]

My pampered princess says that it may be just 40, but it's the important 40.

(no wolf ever looked this goofy . . . she's sitting with her back to a 20 kt wind on St. Simons Island beach . . . her ears have become airborne . . .)

[CovenBuster]

A comparison

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Or pubbies from rats.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

I just glanced into the den & saw two wire hair fox terriers and a yorkie sprawled around the wife's feet. No wolves there, but, the unannounced are met by three yapping banshees. ;>)

[Judith Anne]

I have two dogs in my profile picture, a female MinPin and a male Mastiff.

I wonder if more than 40 genes separate THEM?

(If I could remember how, I'd post that picture here...)

[DennisR]

I guess this means a wolf - not an ape - is my ancestor??? NOT!

[Chi-townChief]

I have a half-German Shepherd, half-Collie mongrel - she's more like a werewolf.

[Sam Cree]

There's a picture of an unusually attractive rat in post 12. At least a couple steps up from Helen Thomas.

[blam]

Judith Anne's dogs

[blam]

blam's Dogs

[JustDoItAlways]

Your dog is a immature, friendly, obedient, different-looking, not-likely-to-attack-other-pack-members, Omega WOLF.

Get used to it and realize what you have and you will have a much better man's-best-friend DOG.

[TASMANIANRED]

She isn't goofy she's adorable and she knows it.

[TASMANIANRED]

Blam love dogs.

Dogs love blam.

Life is good.

Beautiful Labs..

[1rudeboy]

They're vicious, I tell 'ya. Pure maneaters . . . never turn your back.

[MikefromOhio]

This is Princess



This is Duchess



Princess is 2.5 years old and Duchess is 10 months old....great dogs I tell you.

[blam]

"They're vicious, I tell 'ya. Pure maneaters . . . never turn your back."

What are they?

[RedWhiteBlue]