What makes dogs the quintessential best friend to humanity? Why not any other domesticated animal? Cats? Goats? Chickens? What is it about our canine companions that gives us a sense that they KNOW us? Well, Happy Thoughts Agility wanted to find out and take you on the journey with us!

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"The genomics of selection in dogs and the parallel evolution between dogs and humans". Nature communications, 2013

3.Nikolai D. Ovodov,Susan J. Crockford,Yaroslav V. Kuzmin  ,Thomas F. G. Higham,Gregory W. L. Hodgins,Gregory W. L. Hodgins,Johannes van der Plicht. "A 33,000 Year Old Incipient dog from the altai mountains of siberia: evidence of the earliest domestication disrupted by the last glacial maximum." PLOS One July 28, 2011

Music: Happy Clappy Castagnette by Sascha Ende

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