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The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it is derived from the extinct Pleistocene wolf; the gray wolf is the dog's closest living relative. The dog was the first species to be domesticated by humans. Experts estimate that hunter-gatherers domesticated dogs more than 15,000 years ago, which was before the development of agriculture. Due to their long association with humans, dogs have expanded to a large number of domestic individuals and gained the ability to thrive on a starch-rich diet that would be inadequate for other canids.

The dog has been selectively bred over millennia for various behaviors, sensory capabilities, and physical attributes. Dog breeds vary widely in shape, size, and color. They perform many roles for humans, such as hunting, herding, pulling loads, protection, assisting police and the military, companionship, therapy, and aiding disabled people. Over the millennia, dogs became uniquely adapted to human behavior, and the human–canine bond has been a topic of frequent study. This influence on human society has given them the sobriquet of "man's best friend". (Full article...)

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The whippet is a British breed of medium-sized dog, of the sighthound type, related to the larger greyhound and the smaller Italian greyhound. Apart from the differences in height, the whippet closely resembles these two breeds; it has sometimes been described as "the poor man's greyhound". It is kept as a companion dog, for competitive showing, for amateur racing as well as lure coursing. It has the highest running-speed of any breed in its weight and size range, and may have the fastest idle-to-running acceleration of any dog.

The breed's name, ‘whippet’, is derived from an early seventeenth-century word (now obsolete) meaning "to move briskly". (Full article...)

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A team of fourteen mixed-breed dogs mushing. Mushing is a general term for a sport or transport method powered by dogs, and includes carting, sled dog racing, skijoring, freighting, and weight pulling. More specifically, it implies the use of one or more dogs to pull a sled on snow. The term is thought to come from the French word marche, or go, run, the command to the team to commence pulling. "Mush!" is rarely used in modern parlance, however; "Hike!" is more common in English.

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The title Best in Show is awarded to the dog chosen as winner of the annual Crufts dog show, according to conformation show rules. This title was first awarded in 1928, the initial winner being Primley Sceptre, a fawn Greyhound. Previously, Crufts had used the title "Best Champion", sponsored by the Illustrated Kennel News, which was awarded from 1905 to 1914. The first winner of Best Champion was Ch. The Sable Mite, a Pomeranian. According to Crufts: The Official History the first winner of that award was the first dog to be considered the "best" at a Crufts show, although it only lists winners between 1906 and 1912.

When Best Champion was introduced at Crufts in 1905, it was seen by Charles Cruft as an extension of the other titles already available at the show. The class was one of several classes reserved for Crufts subscribers at the cost of a guinea per year. Because of the restriction in entry, there were years when the winner of Best Champion was defeated in other classes which were not restricted to subscribers. Crufts was not the first dog show in the UK to introduce this type of title, the first event to do so was at the Cambridge Canine Society Show in 1900. (Full article...)

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Image 1An 1897 illustration showing a range of European dog breeds (from Dog breed)
Image 2Diagram of a wolf skull with key features labelled (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 3Newborn Basenji puppies (from Puppy)
Image 4Scent-rolling (from Dog behavior)
Image 5Bloodhound puppy (from Puppy)
Image 6West Highland White Terrier puppies (from Puppy)
Image 7Puggle puppy (from Puppy)
Image 8President Lyndon B. Johnson with a basket of puppies in 1966 (from Puppy)
Image 9Example of a dog making prolonged eye contact with a human (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 10Newborn Welsh Springer Spaniels (from Puppy)
Image 11Sled dog types, sketched in 1833 (from Dog breed)
Image 12A labradoodle puppy and a Golden Retriever puppy playing together. (from Puppy)
Image 13Two Shih Tzu puppies (from Puppy)
Image 14The Greenland dog carries 3.5% genetic material inherited from a 35,000-year-old wolf from the Taymyr Peninsula, Arctic Siberia. (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 15Sled dogs, 1833 (from Dog type)
Image 16A cavapoo and maltipoo running back while playing fetch (from Dog behavior)
Image 17External anatomy (topography) of a typical dog: 1. Head 2. Muzzle 3. Dewlap (throat, neck skin) 4. Shoulder 5. Elbow 6. Forefeet 7. Croup (rump) 8. Leg (thigh and hip) 9. Hock 10. Hind feet 11. Withers 12. Stifle 13. Paws 14. Tail (from Dog anatomy)
Image 18The nose of a dog (from Dog anatomy)
Image 19Bison surrounded by grey wolf pack (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 20Montage showing the morphological variation of the dog. (from Dog breed)
Image 21The dog diverged from a now-extinct population of wolves 27,000–40,000 years ago immediately before the Last Glacial Maximum, when much of the mammoth steppe was cold and dry. (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 22Basenji puppy (from Puppy)
Image 23Dog knee (from Dog anatomy)
Image 24Australian Cattle Dog puppy (from Puppy)
Image 25A dog's whiskers (from Dog anatomy)
Image 26Basset Hound (from Puppy)
Image 27The dog's retina shows the optic disc and the eye's vasculature. (from Dog anatomy)
Image 28Cart dogs, c. 1900; different in appearance but doing the same work (from Dog type)
Image 29German Spitz puppy (from Puppy)
Image 30Lateral view of a dog skull, jaw opened (from Dog anatomy)
Image 31Chihuahua puppy (from Puppy)
Image 32Skeleton of a dog:
1. Cranium
2. Maxilla
3. Mandible
4. Atlas
5. Axis
6. Scapula
7. Spine of scapula
8. Humerus
9. Radius
10. Ulna
11. Phalanges
12. Metacarpal bones
13. Carpal bones
14. Sternum
15. Cartilaginous part of the rib
16. Ribs
17. Phalanges
18. Metatarsal bones
19. Tarsal Bones
20. Calcaneus
21. Fibula
22. Tibia
23. Patella
24. Femur
25. Ischium
26. Pelvis
(from Dog anatomy)
Image 33St. Bernard puppy (from Puppy)
Image 34Montage showing the coat variation of dogs. (from Dog anatomy)
Image 35Chihuahua mix and purebred Great Dane (from Dog breed)
Image 36Jack Russell Terrier puppy (from Puppy)
Image 37Golden Retriever puppy (from Puppy)
Image 38Sled dog types, sketched in 1833 (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 39The difference in overall body size between a Cane Corso (Italian mastiff) and a Yorkshire terrier is over 30-fold, yet both are members of the same species. (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 40A dog's teeth (from Dog anatomy)
Image 41A little mongrel puppy on the shore, on Halong Bay (from Puppy)
Image 42A drawing by Konrad Lorenz showing facial expressions of a dog - a communication behavior. X-axis is aggression, y-axis is fear. (from Dog behavior)
Image 43Tesem, an ancient Egyptian sight-hound (from Dog breed)
Image 44NASA astronaut Leland D. Melvin with his dogs Jake and Scout (from Dog behavior)
Image 45"Five different types of dogs", c. 1547. (from Dog breed)
Image 46Cavapoo puppy (from Puppy)
Image 47Lateral view of a dog skeleton (from Dog anatomy)
Image 48Mandible of the oldest recognised dog discovered in Bonn-Oberkassel, Germany, and dated 14,200 years old (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 49Frontal view of a dog skull (from Dog anatomy)
Image 50A wolf mandible diagram showing the names and positions of the teeth (from Dog anatomy)
Image 51A mongrel puppy (from Puppy)
Image 52Lateral view of a dog skull, jaw closed (from Dog anatomy)
Image 53Petroglyph depicting two dogs hunting – Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 54Reduction in size under selective breeding – grey wolf and chihuahua skulls (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 55Cave wolf skull, Natural History Museum, Berlin (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 56Watercolor tracing made by archaeologist Henri Breuil from a cave painting of a wolf-like canid, Font-de-Gaume, France, dated 19,000 years ago (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 57Schematic anatomy of the ear. In dogs, the ear canal has a "L" shape, with the vertical canal (first half) and the horizontal canal (deeper half, ending with the eardrum) (from Dog anatomy)
Image 58Mammoth bone dwelling, Mezhirich site, Ukraine (from Domestication of the dog)
Image 59The difference in body size between a Cane Corso (Italian mastiff) and a Yorkshire Terrier is over 30-fold; both are members of the same species. (from Dog anatomy)
Image 60An extinct Turnspit dog, 1800 (from Dog type)

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... that Kevin Kopps reworked his pitching delivery based on how he played fetch with his dog?
... that Miller's Anatomy of the Dog, a textbook dedicated to canines, was found by a specialist feline publication to be bereft of information about cats?
... that the collapse of Cloghan Castle in County Cork, Ireland, was said to have been caused by the barking of a ghostly black dog?
... that Chuck Eisenmann went from professionally pitching in baseball to owning and training the dogs that starred on the Canadian television series The Littlest Hobo?
... that an image of MacCarthy's Bar on the front cover of a book featured a staff member posing as a nun drinking a pint of Guinness and the surprise appearance of a dog?
... that Norwegian footballer Tuva Hansen and her dog have received millions of views on several TikTok videos?

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...that Tillamook Cheddar (pictured), a Jack Russell Terrier from Brooklyn, New York, is the world's most successful and widely shown animal artist?
...that grape and raisin toxicity is a potential cause of acute renal failure in dogs?
...that Able Seaman Just Nuisance is the only dog to have been officially enlisted in the Royal Navy?
...that the Moscow Water Dog, developed as a water rescue dog, preferred to bite drowning people instead of saving them?

...that the original Rin Tin Tin was named for a puppet called Rintintin that French children gave to the American soldiers for good luck?
...that the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska covers about 1,100 miles (1,760 km)?
...that the dog to win the first three Westminster Kennel Club Dog Shows was a Smooth Fox Terrier named Warren Remedy?
...that the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (World Canine Organization) was founded in 1911 and has 80 member countries?

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