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I wrote earlier this morning about Mickey, our little Yorkshire terrier who is usually a quiet little soul except when it comes to taking a walk when he turns into a yapping, dancing, twisting, impatient little menace that has to be seen and heard to be believed.
My wife often reminds people startled by Mickey’s impatience when it comes to ‘walkies’ time that it has to be remembered that he is descended from the grey wolf, and a recent study by an international group of researchers has confirmed that it is so.
To challenge the theory that the domestic dog originated in East Asia, researchers analysed blood samples from 318 dogs in Egypt, Uganda and Namibia and found that the genetic diversity among African village dogs is just as diverse as that of East Asian dogs. It seems that all the dogs sampled in the study had grey wolf DNA so the theory that all dogs are ultimately descended from Eurasian wolves may still be valid.
We must bear that in mind when we are about to take Mickey for a walk. He may have fewer choppers than before but, believe me, he still has enough left in his little mouth to make an impact on your hands when he is getting impatient to be taken out for a walk!
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I wrote earlier this morning about Mickey, our little Yorkshire terrier who is usually a quiet little soul except when it comes to taking a walk when he turns into a yapping, dancing, twisting, impatient little menace that has to be seen and heard to be believed.
My wife often reminds people startled by Mickey’s impatience when it comes to ‘walkies’ time that it has to be remembered that he is descended from the grey wolf, and a recent study by an international group of researchers has confirmed that it is so.
To challenge the theory that the domestic dog originated in East Asia, researchers analysed blood samples from 318 dogs in Egypt, Uganda and Namibia and found that the genetic diversity among African village dogs is just as diverse as that of East Asian dogs. It seems that all the dogs sampled in the study had grey wolf DNA so the theory that all dogs are ultimately descended from Eurasian wolves may still be valid.
We must bear that in mind when we are about to take Mickey for a walk. He may have fewer choppers than before but, believe me, he still has enough left in his little mouth to make an impact on your hands when he is getting impatient to be taken out for a walk!
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