Research Reveals That Our Love For Dogs Goes Back A Thousand Years!

Scientists, researchers, and all manners of experts have believed that humans and dogs have shared relationships for millenia. Plenty of research has uncovered that there is a huge possibility that pups and humans have been friends for up to 30,000 years.

Most studies have suggested a symbiotic relationship between these two parties – a mutually beneficial one that meant dogs and humans used each other for what they needed. Dogs were trained by humans to hunt, and in return, humans would provide pups with food. But now, new research has shown that it may have gone deeper than that!

In a grave about 14,000 years old, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a family in Bonn, Germany, that consisted of a man, a woman, and a pup. These remains were found in 1914, but it is the wonders of modern technology that allows current scientists to discover more from these remains.

The dog’s teeth revealed something shocking to researchers – the pup had likely developed canine distemper, a fatal illness, at the age of 19 weeks old, but lived to reach 28 weeks old before passing away. This means that the pup received care and love that helped it to survive several weeks despite its condition, without proper medicine – probably from the humans buried with it!

What does this mean? Humans have loved pups and developed close, loving bonds and relationships with them for tens of thousands of years! Dogs truly are man’s best friend.

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