I love dogs! I have a yorkshire terrier.
I hate dogs! wolves are cool though, and what's interesting is that wolves and dogs aren't very closely related, and the ancestor dogs came from is probably extinct
Considering that there are 340 breeds of dogs, it's pretty amazing that none of them are closely related to wolves.
that's a lot of smelly, annoying animals. and we've been putting up with them for at least 14,700 years!
14,700 years is a long while! Although, I could've swore that I heard that they have been domesticated for 38,000 years.
Smelly socks
Smelly socks are socks that have acquired a strong odour due to prolonged wearing. Their odour, which is complex and remains the object of study, is a mixture of ammonia, fatty acids (in particular, isovaleric acid), and lactic acid.
Odorous socks are a strong attractant for some animals, including dogs and mosquitos. They have proven useful in controlling the behavior of these animals.
Although the odour of smelly socks is often associated with feet, it arises independently of contact with human feet
but their turnover has been high, and modern wolves are not the lineal ancestors of dogs. Although research had suggested that dogs and wolves were genetically very close relatives, later phylogenetic analysis strongly supported the hypothesis that dogs and wolves are reciprocally monophylic taxa that form two sister clades. This suggests that none of the modern wolf populations are related to the wolves that were first domesticated and the wolf ancestor of dogs is therefore presumed extinct. Recent mitochondrial DNA analyses of ancient and modern gray wolf specimens supports a pattern of population reduction and