Should Dogs Be Domesticated

Have you ever played outside with your dog for a while and lay back to consider about how your dog evolved into whom he is today and how he turned into "family?" Well, over the centuries, dogs have evolved a lot! In between that time, they turned into what we call pets. Because of this, the relationship between dogs and humans has changed over thousands of years, wolves evolved to dogs and the wolves soon became 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.

    Dogs have been domesticated for over 10,000 years. Food from the humans would bring the dogs to them, and the dogs would bark at predators when they came so the people started to feed the dogs to keep them around. In the 1’st century AD in China Roman mosaics show evidence of the present day Pekingese and Roman ladies also had lap dogs. They believe the dogs warmth cures stomach aches. The earliest evidence of any domesticated dog is a jawbone found in Iraq in a cave about 12,000 years ago. We know it is a jawbone of a dog because a jawbone of a wolf is smaller and the teeth is smaller.

Humans and dogs have long shared a bond that was based on function. Early dogs that were the least valuable and useful did not make it into today’s time. On the other hand, the most valuable and helpful of dogs remained and created others like them. Ultimately, breed predecessors were produced by breeding the best hunters to the best hunters and the best guards to the best

A long time ago, dogs were once wolves, and they worked for humans. Over the millennia, wolves have evolved into dogs, and dogs have become friendlier. The way wolves have changed over time into dogs have been very noticeable. Although, the arctic grey wolf didn't turn into Cavalier King Yorkshire Terrier overnight. The reason the two, dogs and wolves, have changed are plentiful due to the changing relationship between humans and dogs. It cannot be denied.

The wolf was once a much slandered animal. In the western world, people feared and hated wolves, and this legacy is reflected in stories such as Little Red Riding Hood and The Boy Who Cried Wolf. In these popular children's tales the wolf is made out to be a prowler and a killer of livestock and people. There is some basis for The Boy Who Cried Wolf, for wolves have killed cattle and sheep. But what of Little Red Riding Hood? There are no records of wolves killing humans in Canada or the United States. Yet, when wolves were spotted near rural communities, fear used to grip the populace, but over time this has become less prevalent.

Evolution and Domestication of Wolves Wolf Evolution Scientists are not absolutely certain how and where the wolf evolved. By examining fossil bones, especially skulls of animals that lived millions years ago, they have hypothesized that wolves and other predators probably evolved from a small meat-eating mammal that lived in the Cenozoic era, 65 million years ago. Specialized teeth for eating meat appeared about 55 million years ago in an animal called Miacis. It is likely that dogs, cats, weasels, raccoons and other carnivores all branched off from this line of primitive carnivore. A distinctly dog-like mammal, a little smaller than a fox, called Cynodictus, arose about 30 million years ago.

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.

Thousands of years ago the wolves stepped out of the forest and transformed in an evolutionary blink of the eye into what we now call a “dog”. They originated from East Asia and changed the human life forever. From the descendants of ancient wild dogs in Papua New Guinea to a hairless breed is thought to have magical powers in Mexico. Without dogs, we would still be hunters and gatherers if it wasn’t for dogs. We would also lack guardians and expert guides.

Once direct interaction between humans and wolves began, suitable wolf pups were taken as pets. From this point forward the wolf, essentially, became a dog, under constant observation and subject to strong artificial selection for desired traits. The selection of tameness within a wild animal would mean extreme changes through polygenes governing the developmental processes and patterns. For wolf domestication, the phases of natural and artificial selection blend one into the other, resulting in “man's best friend” with adoring and obedient behaviors. Although dogs have been prized as household companions for thousands of years, the wide phenotypic variation of modern dog breeds began more recently, leading to the approximate 400 breeds identified today by the Dog Breeders Associations.

Dogs have always worked for humans, and still do. Some of the things that they do to help people is, help blind people around streets homes and other places. They also protect us, just like how wolves did a very long time ago. If you were to feed a wolf 35,000 years ago, they would trust you, protect you, and hunt for you.

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.

What? Dogs used to be wolves? Well, dogs have been around for thousands of years. Dogs were around when the first wolves came on this earth. The way that wolves became dogs is very interesting. The relationship between dogs and humans has changed over time because dogs have changed and became pets.

The difficulty with determining the origin point is centered around the limited understanding of the rapid phenotypic evolution affecting dogs under the influence of domestication (VonHoldt et al., 2010). As we better understand the process of diversification, it is possible that there were a number of domestication events spanning a time frame longer than our written history (Druzhkova et al., 2013). The reason morphological identification has been so challenging is due to the fact that key definitive features were not fixed in early domestication (Larson et al., 2012). There is an unknown timeframe for how long it took definitive features from ancient wolf populations to begin expressing themselves in their domesticated cousins (Larson et al., 2012). One possible explanation is that the domestication process of the first domestication was not unidirectional and required many generations of starts, reversions, and stops which lacked deliberate planning and direct breeding intervention as we have applied other animals we’ve domesticated (Larson et al., 2012). According to mitochondrial DNA (mDNA) analysis, some of the oldest dog remains found in Western Europe and Siberia have been dated between 15,000 and 36,000 years ago (Thalman et al., 2013). Under the same analysis, remains from the Middle East and East Asia are roughly 13,000 years old (Thalman et

Throughout history, wolves have been common creatures featured in popular culture, folklore, and even religion. Here are some notable wolves and their roles.