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The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it is derived from the extinct Pleistocene wolf; the gray wolf is the dog's closest living relative. The dog was the first species to be domesticated by humans. Experts estimate that hunter-gatherers domesticated dogs more than 15,000 years ago, which was before the development of agriculture. Due to their long association with humans, dogs have expanded to a large number of domestic individuals and gained the ability to thrive on a starch-rich diet that would be inadequate for other canids.

The dog has been selectively bred over millennia for various behaviors, sensory capabilities, and physical attributes. Dog breeds vary widely in shape, size, and color. They perform many roles for humans, such as hunting, herding, pulling loads, protection, assisting police and the military, companionship, therapy, and aiding disabled people. Over the millennia, dogs became uniquely adapted to human behavior, and the human–canine bond has been a topic of frequent study. This influence on human society has given them the sobriquet of "man's best friend". (Full article...)

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The Saluki (Arabic: سلوقي) is a standardised breed developed from sighthounds – dogs that hunt primarily by sight rather than strong scent – that was once used by nomadic tribes to run down game animals. The dog was originally bred in the Fertile Crescent. The modern breed is typically deep-chested and long-legged, and similar dogs appear in medieval and ancient art. The breed is most closely related to the Afghan hound, a basal breed that predates the emergence of modern breeds in the 19th century, and the Saluki has been purebred both in the Middle East, including by royalty, since at least that era, and in the West (especially in Britain and Germany) since the 1840s (with breed standards established in the West and the Middle East around the 1920s–1930s), though as a free-breeding landrace, similar dogs are common as feral animals in the Middle East. A related standardised breed is the north African Sloughi.

The saluki is known as one possible explanation for the mythical Set animal. (Full article...)

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The American Water Spaniel is a gundog breed of dog developed in the market hunting days of America's history. Hunters needed a dog that could function on land as well as in the marsh and that could easily fit into a canoe or skiff without taking up much room. An American original, this flushing spaniel also doubles as a competent retriever.

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The dingo (either included in the species Canis familiaris, or considered one of the following independent taxa: Canis familiaris dingo, Canis dingo, or Canis lupus dingo) is an ancient (basal) lineage of dog found in Australia. Its taxonomic classification is debated as indicated by the variety of scientific names presently applied in different publications. It is variously considered a form of domestic dog not warranting recognition as a subspecies, a subspecies of dog or wolf, or a full species in its own right.

The dingo is a medium-sized canine that possesses a lean, hardy body adapted for speed, agility, and stamina. The dingo's three main coat colourations are light ginger or tan, black and tan, or creamy white. The skull is wedge-shaped and appears large in proportion to the body. The dingo is closely related to the New Guinea singing dog: their lineage split early from the lineage that led to today's domestic dogs, and can be traced back through Maritime Southeast Asia to Asia. The oldest remains of dingoes in Australia are around 3,500 years old. (Full article...)

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Image 1Sled dog types, sketched in 1833 (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 2Australian Cattle Dog puppy (from Puppy)
Image 3Golden Retriever puppy (from Puppy)
Image 4Example of a dog making prolonged eye contact with a human (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 5A wolf mandible diagram showing the names and positions of the teeth (from Dog anatomy)
Image 6Jack Russell Terrier puppy (from Puppy)
Image 7Sled dog types, sketched in 1833 (from Dog breed)
Image 8Cart dogs, c. 1900; different in appearance but doing the same work (from Dog type)
Image 9NASA astronaut Leland D. Melvin with his dogs Jake and Scout (from Dog behavior)
Image 10The difference in body size between a Cane Corso (Italian mastiff) and a Yorkshire Terrier is over 30-fold; both are members of the same species. (from Dog anatomy)
Image 11Watercolor tracing made by archaeologist Henri Breuil from a cave painting of a wolf-like canid, Font-de-Gaume, France, dated 19,000 years ago (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 12A cavapoo and maltipoo running back while playing fetch (from Dog behavior)
Image 13Bloodhound puppy (from Puppy)
Image 14Diagram of a wolf skull with key features labelled (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 15The Greenland dog carries 3.5% genetic material inherited from a 35,000-year-old wolf from the Taymyr Peninsula, Arctic Siberia. (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 16Two Shih Tzu puppies (from Puppy)
Image 17Basenji puppy (from Puppy)
Image 18Frontal view of a dog skull (from Dog anatomy)
Image 19Basset Hound (from Puppy)
Image 20A dog's teeth (from Dog anatomy)
Image 21Newborn Welsh Springer Spaniels (from Puppy)
Image 22Mandible of the oldest recognised dog discovered in Bonn-Oberkassel, Germany, and dated 14,200 years old (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 23Tesem, an ancient Egyptian sight-hound (from Dog breed)
Image 24Montage showing the coat variation of dogs. (from Dog anatomy)
Image 25A labradoodle puppy and a Golden Retriever puppy playing together (from Puppy)
Image 26Skeleton of a dog:
1. Cranium
2. Maxilla
3. Mandible
4. Atlas
5. Axis
6. Scapula
7. Spine of scapula
8. Humerus
9. Radius
10. Ulna
11. Phalanges
12. Metacarpal bones
13. Carpal bones
14. Sternum
15. Cartilaginous part of the rib
16. Ribs
17. Phalanges
18. Metatarsal bones
19. Tarsal Bones
20. Calcaneus
21. Fibula
22. Tibia
23. Patella
24. Femur
25. Ischium
26. Pelvis
(from Dog anatomy)
Image 27The dog's retina shows the optic disc and the eye's vasculature. (from Dog anatomy)
Image 28President Lyndon B. Johnson with a basket of puppies in 1966 (from Puppy)
Image 29The nose of a dog (from Dog anatomy)
Image 30Dog knee (from Dog anatomy)
Image 31A drawing by Konrad Lorenz showing facial expressions of a dog - a communication behavior. X-axis is aggression, y-axis is fear. (from Dog behavior)
Image 32The difference in overall body size between a Cane Corso (Italian mastiff) and a Yorkshire terrier is over 30-fold, yet both are members of the same species. (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 33Schematic anatomy of the ear. In dogs, the ear canal has a "L" shape, with the vertical canal (first half) and the horizontal canal (deeper half, ending with the eardrum) (from Dog anatomy)
Image 34Mammoth bone dwelling, Mezhirich site, Ukraine (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 35Montage showing the morphological variation of the dog. (from Dog breed)
Image 36West Highland White Terrier puppies (from Puppy)
Image 37An extinct Turnspit dog, 1800 (from Dog type)
Image 38Cave wolf skull, Natural History Museum, Berlin (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 39Newborn Basenji puppies (from Puppy)
Image 40The dog diverged from a now-extinct population of wolves 27,000–40,000 years ago immediately before the Last Glacial Maximum, when much of the mammoth steppe was cold and dry. (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 41Chihuahua mix and purebred Great Dane (from Dog breed)
Image 42Cavapoo puppy (from Puppy)
Image 43Chihuahua puppy (from Puppy)
Image 44A dog's whiskers (from Dog anatomy)
Image 45External anatomy (topography) of a typical dog: 1. Head 2. Muzzle 3. Dewlap (throat, neck skin) 4. Shoulder 5. Elbow 6. Forefeet 7. Croup (rump) 8. Leg (thigh and hip) 9. Hock 10. Hind feet 11. Withers 12. Stifle 13. Paws 14. Tail (from Dog anatomy)
Image 46A mongrel puppy (from Puppy)
Image 47Lateral view of a dog skull, jaw closed (from Dog anatomy)
Image 48German Spitz puppy (from Puppy)
Image 49Lateral view of a dog skull, jaw opened (from Dog anatomy)
Image 50Reduction in size under selective breeding – grey wolf and chihuahua skulls (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 51Scent-rolling (from Dog behavior)
Image 52St. Bernard puppy (from Puppy)
Image 53Bison surrounded by grey wolf pack (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 54Puggle puppy (from Puppy)
Image 55Petroglyph depicting two dogs hunting – Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 56A little mongrel puppy on the shore, on Halong Bay (from Puppy)
Image 57Map depicting possible phylogeographic origins of dingoes, New Guinea singing dogs, and Island Southeast Asian and Oceanian dogs, based on recent genetic evidence (Fillios & Taçon, 2016) (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 58An 1897 illustration showing a range of European dog breeds (from Dog breed)
Image 59Sled dogs, 1833 (from Dog type)
Image 60"Five different types of dogs", c. 1547. (from Dog breed)
Image 61Lateral view of a dog skeleton (from Dog anatomy)
Image 62Ancient Hawaiian petroglyphic depiction of an ʻīlio (Hawaiian Poi Dog) (from Domestication of the dog)

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... that the album series Jingle Cats spawned Jingle Dogs, Jingle Babies, and a Japanese video game in which "the object is to breed and care for cats, which begin to sing when they're done copulating"?
... that Lixia traditions include weighing people, brewing seven-family tea, and making rice dogs?
... that a Hot Dog Bean screenprint from Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans II sold for $258,046 in 2013?
... that Herbert James Gunn used a paper cut-out of Princess Elizabeth's corgi dog to help him paint his Conversation Piece at the Royal Lodge, Windsor?
... that Aox Inc., a maker of computer expansion cards, was named after the founders' dog?

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...that Tillamook Cheddar (pictured), a Jack Russell Terrier from Brooklyn, New York, is the world's most successful and widely shown animal artist?
...that grape and raisin toxicity is a potential cause of acute renal failure in dogs?
...that Able Seaman Just Nuisance is the only dog to have been officially enlisted in the Royal Navy?
...that the Moscow Water Dog, developed as a water rescue dog, preferred to bite drowning people instead of saving them?

...that Fred Gipson was an American author best remembered for creating a fictional dog featured in a book and the classic 1957 movie Old Yeller?
...that Pal, owned by animal trainers Frank and Rudd Weatherwax, was the name of the first dog to portray Lassie?
...that fans in the Dawg Pound at Cleveland Browns Stadium used to throw dog food at opposing players?
...that the sled dog Togo is considered one of the heroes commemorated by the Iditarod dog sled race which is currently running across the U.S. state of Alaska?

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