Posted in General Interest, Our Pack on 10/05/2008 06:24 pm by Golden Mountain Dog Solutions
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
~ Will Rogers
As our profile information states, Golden Mountain Dog Solutions is named in memory of Cinders, valiant and trusty comrade, lost to us on 1 December 2006. In the truest sense, she was the catalyst for what would come to be a passion for Diana and me. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in General Interest on 09/24/2008 01:43 pm by Golden Mountain Dog Solutions
The oldest known evidence of human domestication of dogs is approximately 14,000 years old. Only a jawbone with some teeth attached, it was found in the 1950’s buried under the floor of a cave in the region we now call Iraq, and wasn’t properly dated until 1974. In his excellent book The Intelligence of Dogs, Stanley Coren finishes the tale:
“… the importance and age of this fossil were not recognized at first. This is because the fossil was of a dog so similar to contemporary dogs that the archaeologists thought a modern dog must have wandered into the ancient cave site and died there.”
It is safe to say that were you knapping your flint spear head by the fire in paleolithic times, the dog curled up next to you would be indistinguishable in appearance and behaviour from one you might meet on any street in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
