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All dogs are of the same species because any one dog can mate with another dog to create fertile offspring (the definition of a species - an interbreeding population that can produce fertile offspring).

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They belong to Canis familiaris. The common name being domesticated dogs.

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Because they were domesticated from wolves, and wolves are canines.

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Dogs are natural carnivores, and they take on most of their features from the wolf. Like wolves, dogs have canines.

They use these canines to rip apart meat.

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