David Ian Howe

I can say... Like anecdotally with my dog, he won't let me know when he's in pain and shepherds are notorious for being whiny. And then I know for a fact, dogs in the past have like skeletal trauma, either from being kicked or, you know, kicked out of camp or it's hard to tell if it was a fight with another dog or they got gored by a, you know, a boar or something.

Hard to tell, but yeah, dogs had a hard life for a long time, which yeah, significant bummer.

Hard to tell, but yeah, dogs had a hard life for a long time, which yeah, significant bummer.

Hard to tell, but yeah, dogs had a hard life for a long time, which yeah, significant bummer.

Yeah. Dogs, so when the Europeans got here to the Americas, they brought dogs with them as well, but the indigenous had dogs. But with the overwhelming amount of population of the Europeans that came here when the colonial era started, those dogs interbred with indigenous American dogs all up and down South and North America to the point where the genetic lines of pre-contact dogs are gone.

Yeah. Dogs, so when the Europeans got here to the Americas, they brought dogs with them as well, but the indigenous had dogs. But with the overwhelming amount of population of the Europeans that came here when the colonial era started, those dogs interbred with indigenous American dogs all up and down South and North America to the point where the genetic lines of pre-contact dogs are gone.

Yeah. Dogs, so when the Europeans got here to the Americas, they brought dogs with them as well, but the indigenous had dogs. But with the overwhelming amount of population of the Europeans that came here when the colonial era started, those dogs interbred with indigenous American dogs all up and down South and North America to the point where the genetic lines of pre-contact dogs are gone.

But to my best understanding, a Chihuahua is a Mesoamerican breed, but it's been bred so many times with European dogs and then back to like a Chihuahua kind of thing that it has European DNA more than indigenous DNA. It just looks like a Chihuahua. The Xolo too, the same, the hairless dog in Mexico, same kind of thing. And then there's the American Dingo, which is the Carolina Swamp Dog, has some

But to my best understanding, a Chihuahua is a Mesoamerican breed, but it's been bred so many times with European dogs and then back to like a Chihuahua kind of thing that it has European DNA more than indigenous DNA. It just looks like a Chihuahua. The Xolo too, the same, the hairless dog in Mexico, same kind of thing. And then there's the American Dingo, which is the Carolina Swamp Dog, has some

But to my best understanding, a Chihuahua is a Mesoamerican breed, but it's been bred so many times with European dogs and then back to like a Chihuahua kind of thing that it has European DNA more than indigenous DNA. It just looks like a Chihuahua. The Xolo too, the same, the hairless dog in Mexico, same kind of thing. And then there's the American Dingo, which is the Carolina Swamp Dog, has some

DNA still. And then the Greenland dog is one of the only remaining indigenous American breeds that's left.

DNA still. And then the Greenland dog is one of the only remaining indigenous American breeds that's left.

DNA still. And then the Greenland dog is one of the only remaining indigenous American breeds that's left.

Fetch, to me, is a social bonding mechanism between humans and dogs. It bonds you. It's like dogs love play that strengthens the bond. But fetching, I believe, is a direct quirk that comes from hunting. Whereas like a dog, like if you treat an animal, like you treat a raccoon or you treat something, dogs run up to the tree and bark and like scare it until it's stuck in that spot.

Fetch, to me, is a social bonding mechanism between humans and dogs. It bonds you. It's like dogs love play that strengthens the bond. But fetching, I believe, is a direct quirk that comes from hunting. Whereas like a dog, like if you treat an animal, like you treat a raccoon or you treat something, dogs run up to the tree and bark and like scare it until it's stuck in that spot.

Fetch, to me, is a social bonding mechanism between humans and dogs. It bonds you. It's like dogs love play that strengthens the bond. But fetching, I believe, is a direct quirk that comes from hunting. Whereas like a dog, like if you treat an animal, like you treat a raccoon or you treat something, dogs run up to the tree and bark and like scare it until it's stuck in that spot.

And then the hunter can get it. Or if a human shot a bird with a shotgun or a bow back in the day and it fell, like dogs love to go get that and bring it back. And I think that's all fetch is. And it's just a redirection of that because dogs are essentially around to hunt and fetch is like a good outlet for that. And they just love it. But yeah, social bonding mechanism.

And then the hunter can get it. Or if a human shot a bird with a shotgun or a bow back in the day and it fell, like dogs love to go get that and bring it back. And I think that's all fetch is. And it's just a redirection of that because dogs are essentially around to hunt and fetch is like a good outlet for that. And they just love it. But yeah, social bonding mechanism.

And then the hunter can get it. Or if a human shot a bird with a shotgun or a bow back in the day and it fell, like dogs love to go get that and bring it back. And I think that's all fetch is. And it's just a redirection of that because dogs are essentially around to hunt and fetch is like a good outlet for that. And they just love it. But yeah, social bonding mechanism.

She won't. My lab wouldn't either.