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Managing Editor Esther Ripley
Managing Art Editor Karen Self TO DOGS
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Associate Publishing Director Liz Wheeler What is a dog? 8
Publishing Director Jonathan Metcalf
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2 GUIDE 3 CARE AND
TO BREEDS TRAINING
Primitive dogs 22 Preparing for arrival 294
Working dogs 32 Food and feeding 298
Spitz-type dogs 96 First days 300
Sight hounds 124 Handling your dog 302
Scent hounds 136 Grooming 304
Terriers 186 Good behavior 306
Gundogs 220 Socialization 312
Companion dogs 260 Training your dog 320
Crossbreeds 282 Health 330
GLOSSARY 340
INDEX 342
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 352
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8 INTRODUCTION TO DOGS
WHAT IS A DOG?
The evolution of the dog from wild predator to
domestic companion has been greatly influenced by
human intervention. It has taken just a few hundred
years to produce seemingly endless variations on the
canine theme—but planned breeding has not removed
the basic characteristics of the dog’s ancestor, the wolf.
Dogs are social animals
Evolution of the dog investigations have helped to narrow down the possibilities.
All dogs share a common ancestor: the gray wolf. While this The earliest findings of human skeletons buried with their
relationship is fairly apparent in breeds such as the German dogs are in the Middle East, suggesting that this is the most
Shepherd or Spitz-type dogs, with their wolflike heads and likely region for the beginnings of the dog’s development
pricked ears, it is hard to see the connection between wolves from wild wolf to domestic animal, which is thought to
and toy Poodles or Saint Bernards. Genetically, however, have taken place around 15,000 years ago.
any dog of any breed is virtually identical to the wolf. It is probable that wolves crept up to tribal camps,
The transition from wolf to the huge diversity of domestic attracted by food and waste scattered around the
dogs known today happened relatively quickly. The process perimeters. At first these opportunist wolves may have
began gradually, with random changes in size and shape, been killed for their skins and meat. Over time humans
but accelerated when humans began to selectively breed started to tame and hand-rear orphaned wolf cubs, which as
those dogs that exhibited characteristics they desired. social animals took readily to adoption by the human “pack.”
Once their potential was recognized—as hunters and natural
In from the wild guardians that raised the alarm when intruders approached—
Dogs were the first animals to be domesticated, but exactly the wolves were put to work by the tribe, and the
when and where wolves came in from the wild to take their domestication of the dog was under way. It is surmised that
place at human hearths is still under debate. Archaeological in an early form of deliberate selection, human-reared
RELATIONSHIPS OF THE DOG FAMILY
This diagram shows the relationship between the dog and
some of the other canids (members of the dog family), based
on genetic evidence. The dog and the gray wolf are more
closely related to one another than to any other canids.
Foxes Ethiopian Wolf Golden Jackel Coyote Gray Wolf Dog
