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It may seem hard to believe, but all dogs, even the chihuahua and basset hound, are descended from wolves. It’s just that humans have had a big hand in changing their genetic makeup and turning them into hugely different breeds over the centuries.In terms of where the first dogs were domesticated, well, there’s plenty of debate but genetic studies suggest areas such as Mongolia, Europe, Asia and southern China.
A recent study has suggested that dogs were domesticated in both Europe and Asia.If you go by stories and hearsay, such as the tale documented in the film ‘Alpha’ then one hunter befriends an injured wolf. Though unfortunately there’s really not much evidence to back these claims up.Another guess is that humans started to capture wolf pups and began keeping them as pets.However, a lot of scientists tend to agree on another theory - one which surprisingly involves wolves actually domesticating themselves in a way.When wolves began encountering humans instead of running away and keeping their distance, some started to test the water.And perhaps it ended up being survival of the fittest in that the wolves who were friendlier towards humans tended to be more likely to survive.So we ended up with larger numbers of wolves who were more likely to be friendly towards us.Being friendly might have allowed them to access food from hunter-gatherers.They may have started to be able to pick up on human cues and in time, humans began to build a relationship in return.Without transporting ourselves back thousands of years, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly how dogs became our best buds, but we can certainly make some educated guesses.Once the bond was established, humans started realising that they could breed dogs for specific purposes such as hunting, retrieving, farming, herding and tracking.It seems somewhere along the line we realised that dogs can simply be fabulous company and loyal companions, and so we bred dogs to be by our side as house pets, too.
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