How Does The Relationship Between Wolves And Humans Have Changed As Pets?

It was also common for the Wolves to be bred with dogs, in order to get a breed of dog with the strength of a wolf but the calmness and loyalty of a dog.

Wolves and Dogs are closely related, yet dogs tame much easier than wolves. Dogs and wolves have two different social windows.

Have you ever had a dog? Do you know where dogs came from? Well, did you know that a million of years ago dogs did not exist. Back, then the dogs were wolves that disliked people. The relationship between dogs and humans has changed over time because over thousands of years ago, the wolves evolved to dogs and the dogs soon became part of human families. That is why these days people want to have a dog as a pet.

Lopez’s writing is important to my paper because he documents the social and psychological history of human interactions with wolves. Mr. Lopez has been a highly respected authority on human and wolf interactions, and his first hand research for Of Wolves and Men was extensive. His recounting of the vicious and cruel treatment that wolves were subjected to documents the almost incomprehensible evil the human animal is capable of. This information helps present the mindset that many people have carried forward to today, and illustrates the irrational fear and hatred humans still exhibit when dealing with wolves. He gave a startling and alarming window into the human mind, and clearly demonstrates the resistance the wolf reintroduction and recovery efforts had to go up

To begin, animals have been a part of human society for thousands of years. According to the article “Assistance Dogs: Learning New Tricks for Centuries”, man began taming wolves as far back

In the articles “How the Wolf Became the Dog” and “How the Dog Became Part of the Family” by Sarah Albee and Lauren Tarshis. Talk about how the relationship between dogs and humans change because more people can afford better food for their dogs, they used their dogs as rags, and dog owners make special meals for their dogs. According to the article people started to care for their dogs because of better jobs and money the owners got. “More people could afford to feed and care for a pet” (Albee and Tarshis 27). The first quote on why people and dogs changes is because people got money to take care of there dogs unlike back in time dogs had to fend for themselves.

There are a lot of discussions about whether wolves and dogs belong to the same species or not. Recently dogs were reclassified from “canis familiaris” to “canis lupus familiaris” what means they are considered as a sub-species of the wolf species “canis lupus”. However, they are extremely close relatives and genetic studies prove that both share a common ancestry. We can consider a dog like tamed or domesticated form of a wolf.

Their skulls, teeth, and paws shrank, their ears flopped, they gained a docile disposition, becoming both less frightening and less fearful. They learned to read the complex expressions that ripple across human faces. Even though some dogs don’t look alike, they share some of their genes, and belong to the same species. Compared with equally sized wolves, dogs tend to have smaller skulls and smaller brain. The teeth in wolves are larger than the dog’s teeth. The skin in dogs is thicker than wolves. Wolves are smarter and are more are in their environment than dogs. But when it comes to sociability, dogs are more friendly with other animals and as pets. The Saarloos Wolfdog carries more gray wolf DNA than any other dog breed. The gray wolves live in many places, like in deserts, grassland, forest and arctic tundras. Dogs were developed to do different tasks and for the men needs, like herding, droving, pulling, hauling, herding, hunting, rescuing and guarding. Some dogs were used as luxury item, they were viewed by others as an status

Many scientists over the years have tested and retested the theory that dogs are a modern branch off wolves. One theory states that dogs and wolves are evolved from an ancient European wolf that is now extinct. Another says that over the years wolves became so domesticated, they became today’s cute and loveable pet. Another theory says that dogs and wolves mated over the years to create modern day friendly pets we welcome in our homes. Could our adorable, sweet puppies really have originated from those savage beasts?

In only the first few generations of domesticated dogs, they started to gain their staple coats, ears, and tails. These “protodogs” were also the first to read human gestures (Hare/Woods, 2013). Some of our closest primate relatives can’t even read our gestures like dogs can. Bonding over time with humans, dogs even started acquiring new tricks to do on their own based on our needs, like acting as security systems, for example. In point of fact, compared to wolves, the legs of most dogs are in fact “crippled” and are not nearly as suited to run. Even most German shepherds don’t compare to wolves (Lindsay, 2005). We’ve made dogs our companions during our walks, bike rides and hiking journeys; we’ve let them know it’s okay to sniff fire hydrants, trees, and other daily objects we may come across. Now all they want to do is watch the world from a windowsill and see it go passing by, just like us. They want to hang out with us, watch TV with us, eat with us, go shopping with us, do everything we do with us. They are social animals, just like us; compassion and attention are necessities. They’ve grown attached to us.

The grey wolf has been transformed into what we, today, call a dog. After years of traveling with humans, the wolf began to change and became adapted and tame enough to socialize with humans. The environment it was placed into was one of the causes for change, and another was the role it played for humans.

By 14,000 to 12,000 years ago dogs were brought over from Asia by the first settlers, These settlers most likely used dogs for hunting and protection, but when situation called they probably used dogs as food. By 10,000 years ago dogs were effecting humans everyday lives all around the world and the uses of dogs were becoming more varied, and by less than 1,000 years ago dogs genetic diversity had changed so immensely to were some of them have no similarities to the wolf. By this time dogs were being bred for specific jobs and tasks, such as herding and watching over livestock. Today there are over a billion dogs in the world made up of over 340 recognized breeds. In America alone there are over 11 million dogs, many of which are simply used as pets and companions with no other use, almost the complete opposite reason for domestication in the first

Wolf packs also have special relationships. In the passage it states that the wolves take care of the baby wolves. The leader of the wolf pack tells the pack what to do. Some of the wolves go and help find food to take care of the others and when the female wolf has her babies she is treated very nice. The other wolves gets the mother food so she does not have to leave her babies. When they can start walking the mother to help the pack again. Each wolf has a part in their pack. Wolves has one of the most complex series of relationships in the whole animal kingdom. This goes back to the kittens and goes back to the kittens and dogs because they help each other out with different things. In the the other passage it talks about a giraffe and a ostrich. It revealed that they both care for each other like they would for themselves. For example Wilma likes to snuggle up with her friend and Bea cleans off Wilma with her long tongue. That is a reason that dogs can care for baby

Canis lupus familiaris, also known as man’s best friend. Man’s best friend has been around for many years. The dog, Canis familiaris, is a direct descendent of the gray wolf, Canis lupus: In other words, dogs as we know them are domesticated wolves. Not only their behavior changed; domestic dogs are different in form from wolves, mainly smaller and with shorter muzzles and smaller teeth (PBS 2001). With that being said, the earliest dogs were wolves. The earliest known humans took them in, started hunting with them and eventually turned them into one of our most faithful pets.

There are several theories on how the evolution from wolf to dog came about. One theory is that the human environment attracted wolves. Wolves started following people around to take advantage of food scraps that were left behind. Eventually, wolves lost fear of people, and people lost fear of wolves. The benefits of this new relationship were not just one way. Wolves also helped humans by sniffing out prey and helping them hunt. Success likely meant the humans would share their food with wolves. This is a very popular theory, but it has been disputed. Archeological digs show that the early dogs were not eating the same mammoth meat that the humans were eating. Instead, their main diet consisted mostly of less popular human meat such as reindeer. The prehistoric dogs also had many broken teeth and severe facial wounds. Although these injuries could be from fighting with other dogs, many scientists believe the dogs had been beaten with sticks, leading many to assume the relationship between man and prehistoric dog was not as companionable as the theory would suggest.