The English word dog is derived from the old English word “docga”, which means a powerful breed of canine. In the French, it is “dogue” and in Spanish is “dogo”. In the circles of breeding, a male dog is submitted as a dog and female is called a bitch. Dog is understood to be the loyal friend of a man, since earlier times. That is why dogs are our usual pet. While defining the origin of dog, we will say that the dog is actually a type of wolves, or we can say that they are domesticated from of wolves. Dogs are domesticated from wolves from 15000 years to 100, 000 years ago. The dogs were firstly domesticated in East Asia, when the people entered into the North America with their dogs. The genetic research shows the breads of 14 dogs and these kinds of dogs can be found only in China and Japan. The 14 species of dogs include Chow-Chow, Akita Inu, Shiba Inu, Shar Pei and Basenji. All these 14 species of dogs are recognized by the Genetic researches.
A dog is a domestic animal. They are the subspecies of the wolf and a mammal of the Canidae family. The dog is also used to describe the species or subspecies of wild canids. The domestic dog has been one of the most common working and friendly animal in the human history. The dog has increased into hundreds of different species. Some researches recommend that dogs have only been tamed for very shorter time and were disciplined from population of wild dogs. The domestic dogs are very simple dogs and they are highly social animals. The dogs are liked for their trainability, skills and liveliness to fit into the human family and social circumstances. The dogs have varieties of roles in the human society and some are also used as the working dogs. The dogs have not many traditional jobs. There are vast ranges of dog sports that offer many opportunities to show their natural skills. In many countries, dogs are tamed in the homes as companions. The owners of the dogs enter them in the contests, like shows and sport competitions. The dog sports include dog sledding, dog racing and dog fighting.
In the long history of dogs, there are many famous and tarnished dogs that are endorsed in the literatures, cinemas and other media. There are more than 800 dog species that are recognized worldwide by the various kennel clubs. All the species of dogs have been derived from mixed breed dog populations. Some dog breeds are highly specialized, and there is a surprising morphological assortment across the different breeds of dog. In spite of these differences, we are able to differentiate dogs from the other kinds of dogs. The mixed breed dogs or Mongrels are also best dogs, but they do not belong to any particular species of dogs. The Mongrel dogs are not better or worse than the other pedigree dogs. The Mongrel dogs are known as the cross breed dogs. Premeditated cross of two or more breeds is also a way of establishing the new breeds. |
