A Bond Forged Over Millennia Dogs (Canis familiaris) have lived alongside humans longer than any other domesticated animal, potentially for 15,000 to 40,000 years. First bred from wolves, they’ve evolved through human-guided selection into beings of loyalty, empathy, and cooperation. These traits made dogs invaluable as hunters, herders, protectors, and today, as emotional and medical […]
As the saying goes, the dog is man’s best friend. Dogs offer comfort. After the June 2016 massacre in an Orlando nightclub in which a gunman killed 49 people and injured 53 others, 12 golden retrievers were brought to the city to offer comfort to some of the victims, family and emergency crew. According to the […]
