man's first friend

taken from the Book Of Facts
written by Readers Digest




man's first friend

the dog is man's oldest as well as his best friend.
the ancient Egyptians used dogs for hunting 8000 years ago, and stone age humans may have had hunting dogs before 10,000BC, the ancestors of the dog were probably the lighter-built southern Asian races of the wolf, but other wolf races may have contributed as well.
about 5000 years ago humans began to develop breeds of dogs in order to encourage different qualities.
last, the short-legged dachshund was bred for hunting badgers, and sheepdogs was bred for its herding abilities.
all dogs - from a Mexican chilhuahua weighing less than 1kg ( 2.2lb ) to a huge st bernard weighing more than 90kg ( 198lb ) - are members of the same species.
in biological terms, this means that any dog can potentially breed with any other dog - although differences in size can make this unlikely in some cases. and despite the long domestication there is no genetic barrier between dogs and wolves, either.



personal opinion;


the fact that man has and is still breading all kinds of animals to make others - they are in my opinion playing god, nature has was of making life happen without the aid of man but man obviously don't think so.