what is the General History Of Dogs

There is no contradiction in the idea that during the earliest human habitation on this planet he made friends with some kind of aboriginal representative of our modern dog, and that for its help in protecting him from wild animals, and when he guarded his sheep and goats, he gave you part of his food, corner in trust and care. Perhaps the animal was originally just an unusually gentle fox, or a sick wolf driven by its companions out of a pack of wild predators in search of a place to hide. One would think that the relationship may have begun with the fact that some helpless lambs were brought in by early hunters to be cared for and raised by women and children. Dogs introduced into the home as children's toys will grow up to look after them, and to be considered family members.

In almost every part of the world, traces of indigenous dogs are found, the only extraterrestrial sites in the West Indian Islands, Madagascar, the eastern islands of the Malay Archipelago, New Zealand, and the Polynesian Islands, where there is no indication that a dog, wolf, or fox was present. In the ancient lands of the East, and often among the first Mongols, the dog remained cruel and neglected for centuries, roaming the pack, gaunt and wolf-like, as it roams today on the streets and under the walls of all Eastern cities. No effort is ever made to entice a person to a relationship or to develop it in a kind way. Until we came to check the records of the high civilizations of Assyria and Egypt, where we found any species of canine.

The dog was relatively rare in Palestine, and in both the Old and New Testaments it is commonly referred to as the “unclean beast.” Even the common denominator of the herd in the Book of Job "But now the younger men scoff at me, whose fathers I did not despise with the dogs of my flock." both of them went out, and the young man with the dog. ”

The vast majority of different dog breeds and the vast differences in size, points, and general appearance are facts that make it hard to believe that they could have had a single ancestor. One thinks of the difference between Mastiff and Japanese Spaniel, Deer hound and Pomeranian fashion, St. Bernard and the Miniature Black and Tan Terrier, and he is puzzled as he wonders if they may have come from the same ancestor. Yet the difference is not greater between the Shire horse and the Shetland horse, the Shorthorn and Kerry cattle, or the Patagonian and Pygmies; and all dog breeders know how easy it is to produce a variety of breeds and sizes with tested experiments

Then the presence or absence of the barking habit cannot be taken as an argument in determining the question of the origin of the dog. This stumbling block consequently disappears, leaving us in the position of agreeing with Darwin, whose final hypothesis was that “it is highly probable that the domestic dogs of the world have descended from two good species of wolf Lupus and  Coyote.