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.
that is in dispute! but back to the smelliness of dogs, the reason stinky things stink so much is ammonia mixing with fatty acids and lactic acid. yuck!
I really don't think dogs smell that bad. Maybe your nasal cavity ( also a name for a nose) is quite sensitive to all those chemicals.
cardiac arrest. Contrary to popular belief, most cats dislike insects and probably eat them mistakenly, which may cause gastrointestinal upset and vomiting.
History.
The idea of preparing specialized food for cats came later than for dogs (see dog biscuits and dog food). This was likely due to the idea that cats could readily fend for themselves. In 1837, a French writer Mauny de Mornay critiqued this idea:
In 1844, another French writer expanded on this idea:
He goes on to say that it
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