The world of dogs

Welcome to The World of Dogs

At times when humans were still leading their lives as hunters and collectors, Wolves were among their major competitors for food. When they settled down and started raising cattle, it was again the Wolf which threatened their herds; the cattle was easy to hunt since it lost its natural escape behaviour.
From the Wolves' point of view it made sense to search for nearness to the herds and thus to humans. But Wolves have never been a direct danger to humans. There are hardly any serious reports of free living Wolves attacking humans.

The most experts believe that the dog was domesticated within the last 15,000 years. The earliest dog skeleton was excavated in 1979, when 12,000-year-old bones were discovered at a site called ein Mallaha in Israel.