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 […]
More and more people are talking about all that dogs are capable of doing. They can be loyal and provide love and and companionship, and many are the sight, hearing, and mobility of individuals, or provide emotional support. And dogs have even been used to predict earthquakes. One study shows that some dogs can detect […]
InSitu Foundation is a tax-exempt non-profit organization dedicated to training dogs to detect cancer in humans. According to the Foundation, “Dogs’ accuracy levels have been proven to be 88% specific, and 99% sensitive in the early detection of lung and breast cancer.” So just as dogs have been trained to find narcotics, explosives, insects (lice or […]
