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Not surprisingly to dog trainers and many dog owners, more and more genetic and anthropological research supports the idea that as much as humans domesticated and transformed wolves into dogs, wolf/dogs “team-isticated” and transformed humans into hunting-as-a-pack hyper cooperative and communicative animals, a transformation that changed us into modern homo sapiens.
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Our Golden Retriever exhausts me daily. He is a young adult and he wants to retrieve a lot, a whole lot, and he expects me to hold up my end of “the deal” every day with substantial walks and lots and lots of throwing of sticks and balls for long distances (“Really, you pathetic old f&rt, is that as far as you can throw it?”). He is keeping me aerobically fit and forcing me to exercise my pained shoulder girdle in accordance with my doctor’s instructions, a very powerful benefit.
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We live on abused poor agricultural land in Mexico, and we were long overrun by mice and rats despite the best laid traps and the tightest food and rubbish containers. Husband wanted a sweet pretty lap cat but I held out for a proven “ratter”, hard to find in modern circles. Two months ago we grabbed a starving cat from the streets of the nearby pueblo. After veterinarian testing and treatment for parasites etc and two weeks of good food he proved himself an expert ratter and brought me two or three heads a week to prove it, while expertly purring and cuddling with happy husband, The rodent kills are down to one or so a week or so as the population has been culled and fear instilled.
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