The history of domestic dogs dates back thousands of years. Some resources claim that pet dogs we know today were domesticated from gray wolves about fifteen thousand years ago. It is also said that these faithful creatures started off as a scavenger around the humans' settlement before they got used to the presence of humans and learned to live with them.
Dogs were a vital part of humans' every day life back then. They hunt for food, retrieve objects, herd livestock, guard camps and even rescue lives. That is when dogs started to be categorized into different groups and specifically bred for a certain purpose. Soon, dogs adapted to their working purposes and developed supportive traits. For example, hunt dogs often have long, bright-colored tails so that the hunter would be able to tell where his dog is from a distance. Herding dogs grow a thick fluffy coat around their collar bone to protect their neck when they're fighting wolves that tried to kill their master's farm animals.
But as time goes by, these dogs start to lose their job as machines and robots grew in popularity. Little by little, people start to remove dogs from their jobs and breed them as a companion only. In our society today, only a handful of breeds still get the chance to do what they were originally bred to do. Most dogs serve as a family companion or a personal property guardian. However, there are still some feral dogs scattered all over the world. These feral, domestic dogs that were often cooked or thrown away are actually the ones most closely-related to wolves!
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