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he world of static art is packed with testimonies to the bond — which goes back at least 15,000 years — between humans and canines. One doesn’t have to wait for the Italian Renaissance and oil-based paint first being applied to canvas to witness us, daubed in soot and red ochre on cave walls, acting as protectors, grazers, grafters,

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