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Man's best friend for 30,000 years: Canine skulls discovered in two separate digs reveals historic relationship

1 posted on 01/24/2012 7:04:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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3 posted on 01/24/2012 7:08:07 PM PST by mark3681
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WOOOF!

The Doggie Ping list is for FReepers who would like to be notified of threads relating to all things canid. If you would like to join the Doggie Ping Pack (or be unleashed from it), FReemail me.

4 posted on 01/24/2012 7:10:54 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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6 posted on 01/24/2012 7:13:55 PM PST by iowamark
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Dogs are great companionship, and my best friend.... but beware a loaded cat.

7 posted on 01/24/2012 7:14:15 PM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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17 posted on 01/24/2012 8:03:53 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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I guess it’s because a dog will conveniently eat your homework and other tasks that you should have done, while a dang ole woman will point out you never did it and call you a lazy so-and-so, even if the teacher/boss is right there. Else, a woman would be a man’s best friend.


21 posted on 01/25/2012 3:24:32 AM PST by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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Canine skulls in Belgium? Must have been one of these lovlies:


22 posted on 01/25/2012 3:40:39 AM PST by rintense
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longer snouts and narrower jaws to help them hunt.

It's their ability to smell, in particular to smell approaching humans, that make them so useful. If you've ever walked past a homeless person that hasn't showered for a few days, you know that humans are particularly smelly in their natural state. For most hunting animals, this would be a negative because it alerts prey. For humans, it's like the rattle on a rattlesnake. It's a warning to get out of the way of Earth's most deadly killer. Dogs serve as first alerts in tribal warfare of an impending surprise attack. Inferior skilled dogs were killed off along with the tribes that owned them.

23 posted on 01/25/2012 3:41:35 AM PST by Reeses
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all dogs came from a single wolf-like ancestor

Then how can they explain these:


25 posted on 01/25/2012 3:45:06 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (The only solution to this primary is a shoot out! Last person standing picks the candidate)
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There is a story told by the American Indians that the Great Spirit decided to divide the worlds of animal and man so he gathered all living beings on a great plain and drew a line in the dirt. On one side of the line stood man——on the other side stood all of the animals. And that line began to open up into a great crevasse-and at the last moment before it became unreachable, dog leapt over and stood by man. ~~Unknown


31 posted on 01/25/2012 6:27:02 AM PST by mikec256
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