Guest War Dog of the Week: Why are canines and human beings so fundamentally sympathetic to each other?
My wife read somewhere that dogs are a species essentially created by man. Under this theory, dogs descend from wolves that were friendly enough to come near the campfire when thrown a bone, but smart enough to survive encounters with man. Over many thousand years, those friendly/smart genes multiplied and created the dog. Just two ...
My wife read somewhere that dogs are a species essentially created by man. Under this theory, dogs descend from wolves that were friendly enough to come near the campfire when thrown a bone, but smart enough to survive encounters with man. Over many thousand years, those friendly/smart genes multiplied and created the dog. Just two predators hanging out.
My wife read somewhere that dogs are a species essentially created by man. Under this theory, dogs descend from wolves that were friendly enough to come near the campfire when thrown a bone, but smart enough to survive encounters with man. Over many thousand years, those friendly/smart genes multiplied and created the dog. Just two predators hanging out.
Above, two members of the 2nd ID hang out in Buhriz, Iraq, in 2007.
And with that, I am going to stack arms and let Rebecca take back her column. Here’s a photo to think on that.
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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