What we learned from, and about, our domesticated friends in the last century
Posted 07.13.2012 at 2:57 pm
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We've spent thousands of years living side by side with dogs, and yet we're still constantly seeing what we can teach them--or, sometimes, it's them doing the teaching.
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So it's no surprise that Popular Science would keep a steady interest in canines throughout our history, whether that meant using them as subjects in serious experiments or finding oddball uses for them (like having machines for producing arctic dog hair sweaters). Click on the gallery for that and more.
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This is one cute adorable dog. I hope it well today!
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Just a thought: even if aliens are "friendly", we can't expect much - just look at what we've done to our "best friends" - we've turned them into our goofy lackeys, we've inbred some of them so much that they're incapable of surviving on their own, or even reproducing. But we love them.