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Origin of Dog Domestication
The accumulation of garbage around the man's living area turned into a great source of safe, conformable and abundant food for the less trustful wolf, just by searching in the man's garbage. These wolves, at the same time, should have turned into a supplementary source of protein for the man as he was leaving his old hunting habits to turn little by little into a farmer.
This is why he would let the tamest wolves prowl looking for dead animals and he would perfectly know which animals used to produce the most robust babies. As the time went by, these wolfs, held up in the adolescence ended up living in inhabited areas, which would have been the first step for domestication. Wolves became domestic dogs.
When humans began growing vegetables, they found in some of these wolves very useful qualities. Some of the them, the youngest and most playful had completely lost their hunting and possession instincts. They turned out being really perfect to take care of the flocks. Others would stand out for being specially possessive, the man took advantage of this trait in his favor.building dog kennels
The man would have kept and bred those animals that turned to be useful for him and would have killed, eaten or frightened off all the rest. At the beginning the man would have bred dogs so they could help the man hunting or to protect him and his belongings, as the oldest canine breeds show . By that time and for many millennium, the man cared very little about the external look of the dog, because he was only interested on its utility as a working animal.
The human evolution would bring along the progressive popularization of the dog and its spreading around the world, probably, through commercial routes. The dogs would be appreciated as working animals everywhere, but probably the external aspect of one shepherd dog, would really differ one from the other in a different points of the planet. cat house
The type of work made by the dog would be, in fact, reflected on the aspect of the animal. The well-built dogs like the Mastiffs would be specially adequate to hunt in the woods, while the lightest and most agile ones like the Collies would be very useful to chase, round up or raise the hunt in open lands. cedar dog house
The dog's aspect was progressing as the conduct habits were modifying. Man didn't begin to breed its external aspect until the 20th century.
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