Hopelessly devoted to you
MAN’S best friend is also Man’s oldest friend. According to some archaeologists, the grey wolf—FidoandFluffy’sancestor—was tamed as long ago as 30,000bc. Other experts maintain this timescale is barking up the wrong tree and the wolf was brought in from the wilderness cold about 12,000 years ago. Either way, the dog was the first domesticated creature and its woof announced the Anthropocene, the era when humans have manipulated Nature, rather than Nature manipulating them. When we, and indeed Rover, departed noble savagery.
The contretemps over the date of doggie domestication is an indictment of how little we truly understand our canine companions, of which there are a billion or so worldwide and 10 million in the UK. It is only in the
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