How did dogs become domestic?

Answer 1

Many cultures explain the way dogs came to be man's best friend.

One religion says that man one day went looking for fruit to eat, as man hadn't yet learned to hunt. The man couldn't find any fruit because of the big floods, so went looking for items to hunt the animals of the forest with. The man couldn't catch the birds, the monkeys and the wild cats very well, so hunted fish. He caught so many. The God got angry because all the fish were nearly gone. God decided to turn some fish into dogs to help Man kill all the animals to keep them even. While the man returned to catch fish, the dog had caught a monkey at his feet and gave it to the man.

The scientific way dogs were the first domestic animal because they were great at hunting and had great noses to smell with. The cave men found dogs and saw they caught well, so tried to tame dogs to hunt for the cave men. Since the dogs where very wild back then, it took a while. A least one cave man kept a dog as a pet and handed down the idea from generation to generation, and look what's happened now!

Answer 2

The dog. Experts disagree as to exactly when each was domesticated, but none would argue about the order. Dogs were domesticated long ago, and cats rather recently. Estimates for the domestication of the dog, based on various genetic studies of living dogs and wolves, range anywhere from 15,000 to 135,000 years ago. Estimates for the domestication of the cat are more like 10,000 years ago. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_dog and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_cat

Dog and Cat owners disagree more than the experts. Many say that the cat has not been domesticated. The Dog is probabally not a domesticat animal; its relationship to Man is so inter tangled with Man that the mechanical/industrial age is dependant on the man-dog relationship. Work, that is, moving and pulling, and hunting, and distance activities, all important to Man, probabally could not have been accomplished without the Dog.

Expressions:" Dogs have Masters; Cats have staff." Not altogether an inaccurate discussion of the Dogs and the Cats interaction with Man and Man's apprasial of the diffiernece between the animals. Examples of Dog-Man relationships: almost ever state in the United States has statutory law or case-law concerning Dogs and their relationship to Man; very little legislation exists concerning cats, who are considred pets or more or less usless luxuries of man. ('Pets', as significant and entitled to be given legislative protection is still relatively undeveloped; it is true that preserved cats are found in Egyptan tombs; I dont recall a preserved dog; there is the famous dog of pompii.) 'Dogs,' as valualbe assistants, helpmates, and adjuncts to active human business are recoginized in just about every state jurisdiction in the United States of America. (Side point the law of the dog is much more complicated than mere automobile accidents and wrongfull death.)

Legend and history are repleat with stories of dogs and Man: Galart, hound of Henery I? , who died rather than let europian wolves get near Henry's child; Shercher, Walker of George Washington, countless dogs who saved entire families from fire, etc, etc.... Amoung men, it's almost imposible to find a persona without a dog of life story; it is nearly equally almost imposible to find someone who says, " Love me, love my cat."

Finaly, it appears to me that cats are probabally only quasi-domesticated; dog are so much a part of the life of Man, that they are no more domisticated than one's extended family: the interaction is such that they are all a part of the whole.

Answer 3

Because dogs are NOT insects or bacteria. Humans are classified as themselves, thus leaving only Animal left for a dog. A dog is a mammal because it has fur and is born live. It is also warm-blooded and has a back bone.

Answer 4

most commonly quoted answer is approximately 15,000 years ago, found buried with a child in Asia, the skeleton showed a reduced jaw bone, which suggested domestication. Alan

Answer 5

No one knows when it became the first domestic animal, but it was the dog.

Answer 6

To provide food, milk, skin or wool to humans

Answer 7

From the dawn of human life the hunter gatherers fed these wild carnivores.Time creeping they became pet

Answer 8

Dogs were first, domesticated for human service and loyalty, cats were second, for mouse and rat control.