GENERAL HISTORY OF DOGS
31 Jan 2010
There’s no incongruity in the idea that within the very earliest amount of man’s habitation of this world he made a disciple and companion of some kind of aboriginal representative of our modern dog, and that in come back for its aid in protecting him from wilder animals, and in guarding his sheep and goats, he gave it a share of his food, a corner in his dwelling, and grew to trust it and take care of it. Probably the animal was originally very little else than a bizarrely light jackal, or an ailing wolf driven by its companions from the wild marauding pack to hunt shelter in alien surroundings. One will well conceive the possibility of the partnership starting within the circumstance of some helpless whelps being brought home by the first hunters to be tended and reared by the ladies and children. Dogs introduced into the home as playthings for the children would grow to treat themselves, and be regarded, as members of the family