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The Relationship Between Dogs And Dogs

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All across the world, people have dogs as pets. From people living in a high-rise apartment in a large city or people living in a cabin in the middle of the woods, dogs have seemed to make their ways into the homes of all demographics of people. The question remains then, “why?” Why do people volunteer time and money to care for an animal who doesn’t make any money and is unable to care for themselves? Despite all these factors, millions of people around the globe take pets into their homes and adopt them into their families, a trend that has occurred for thousands of years. Dogs serve many purposes and provide many reasons for people to form a bond with them, some reasons are not even fully understood. There are several factors that explain why people own dogs and reasons that this beneficial relationship has continued to this day: the physical behaviors and characteristics appease humans’ biological processes along the companionship that dogs offer (which is paralleled to family members), and the benefits that come with a positive relationship of that magnitude. I: Domestication and the History of Dogs To understand the relationship between people and dogs, it is important to understand how this relationship originated. The beginning of the relationship between humans and dogs is a disputed and unclear one, with the domestication of dogs ranging from 10,000 to 38,000 years ago, first occurring somewhere in either Europe or Asia (Tarlach, Gemma). At the time,

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