Dog Business Blog » Dog Information http://dogbusinessblog.dogtrainingbusiness.com Dog Business Blog providing information about marketing and managing your dog business Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:02:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Another article about the origins of the dog http://dogbusinessblog.dogtrainingbusiness.com/2009/09/origins-of-the-dog/ http://dogbusinessblog.dogtrainingbusiness.com/2009/09/origins-of-the-dog/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:54:34 +0000 Andrew Ledford The Dog Saint http://dogbusinessblog.dogtrainingbusiness.com/?p=14 I think this article presents the finding about the dogs origins in a manner that is a bit more believable than they were kept in cages as livestock for food.

To me it is plausible that dogs started self-domesticating while humanity was still in the hunter gather state. But agriculture is what allowed dogs to be really fruitful and multiply.

http://www.thelocal.se/21858/20090903/

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A new theory has it that humans kept what I presume would be semi tame wolves as livestock for domestic consumption. In other words dog were raised as food. An interesting idea that could be true. For the time being I still like the Coppinger’s theory of the dog domesticating itself. I think it would be easier to trap and kill dogs for food than to make cadges, feed and care for them. A fed dog will follow its food supply quite willingly, why expend the energy and effort with cadges, and feeding and cleaning? Hunter gathers would have already perfected trapping when agricultural settlements came into fashion. I think tame dogs would be a lot easier to trap than wild fox, jackals, and wolves.

Just my thoughts
Here is the article it does raise some interesting questions. And questions are what make life intellectually stimulating.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/science/08dogs.html?hpw
Wishing you the best in dog training and in life
Andrew Ledford
The Dog Saint

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