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date: 2025-10-03T16:19:07-06:00
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description: ""
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lastmod: 2025-10-03T16:19:07-06:00
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showTableOfContents: true
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type: "tils"
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title: "TIL: We Created Dogs and Dogs Created Us"
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image: "images/otto-1.webp"
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image_alt: "Image of my sweet pup Otto, Irish Setter 7 months"
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tags: ["life", "dogs", "history"]
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# Context
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I started listening to [_Sapiens: A Brief History of Human
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kind_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind) and was struck at the significance of dogs
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in human history. I [realized](https://fosscat.com/tils/people-are-actually-right/) that dogs really are man's best
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friend, and only animal that has evolved alongside us sinze the hunter gatherer period. Its incredible!
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# Reflection
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Otto (pictured above) is my first dog. I feel like having a dog isn't for everybody, but having humans is for every dog.
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I've found such satisfaction in my relationship with him. We really mutually benefit each other. Dogs are so malleable,
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they really pick up on so much of what you do and how you want them to behave. There is some learning required from
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you as the human, and moments to stop and think critically about what it is you want from them. But, once you train
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something only a handful of times, dogs _learn it_, they _understand_ us. What an incredible relationship us monkeys
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created with these wolves.
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