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0 A quick history of the domestication of canines.
Fossil stays suggest that 5 unique types of pets existed by 4500 B.C. Illustrations of pets, dating from the Bronze Age, have been discovered on walls, burial places, and scrolls throughout the Middle East, Europe, and North America. Typically the canines are imagined hunting alongside their human companions. In ancient Egypt, pets– like cats– were spoiled and revered, and only royalty was allowed to own pure-blooded dogs.
It is thought that dogs and humans discovered a potential collaboration when canines would scavenge near humans’ camping areas, and the people discovered that the canines offered protection, as well as aid in searching, in exchange for a share in the humans’ food.
Through the ages, canines have actually been bred and trained to help individuals with searching, herding, sporting, and many kinds of work– not to mention friendship.
More modern is the development of programs to teach canines to perform an incredible variety of services to human beings. While guide dogs for the blind are not a brand-new thing– a blind Germanic king supposedly had one in 100 B.C., and a wall painting in Pompeii portrays a blind guy being led by a pet dog– it was not up until after World War I that an organized school for guide pets was developed. Now we have hearing pets for the deaf and service canines who help disabled individuals by turning lights on and off, recovering dropped products, helping them into wheelchairs, and anticipating seizures. As with the retirement home visitors, the animals utilized in these programs typically are rescuees from shelters.
Dogs find individuals lost in the wilderness and buried in the rubble of wrecked structures. There are countless stories of canines who have rescued their people from fire, flood, and human wrongdoers of evil.
