I need your brains!

[imported_Kat]

Hi folks,

I need a bit of brain storming here for a literature review I'm doing.

Tell me what thoughts come immediately to mind with the title of "The evolution of canine social behaviour"?

I think I'm working at this computer too much, cos my brain actually hurts :-?

[Guest Anonymous]

I guess I just think of the adaptation of wolves to live in human families. :roll:
I hope your brain stops hurting! :wink: Have you taken any asprin? :)

[courtnek]

Wolves have always been social canines, amongst themselves. They cannot feed, defend and raise their young alone, and they know it, so they formed family packs where there was one leader and everyone respected him. They are truly like families, looking after each other like family members would.The transition from wolves avoiding man to joining him was fairly easy to make. We lived in the same kind of tribes back then, and relied on each other for survival. Since those traits were the ones we deliberately bred for, that transition passed on to our dgs as well. And while things have changed alot in the centuries since the taming of the wolf, all of those old social family instincts still exist, in some form or another.