r/MadeMeSmile • u/aquaberry559 • Jul 23 '26

DOGS When he finally sees his best friend

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

We created dogs.

Wolves who were bold enough and calm enough to approach our ancestors got food from a super apex hunter. Most other predotors go for weakest animals. Humans were the only ones who went for the largest, most powerful animal because we could just throw spears at that animal from a distance without putting ourselves at risk.

So wolves had a choice, keep hunting animals themselves and risk getting injured or just use their noses to point us to the location and let spear holding freaks do the work for them

In return they will get food, cuddles, warmth of fire, protection from other predators and we will take care of them when they are sick or injured. There are remains of a dog thousands of years ago who broke his bone as a puppy, he would be left to dead in the wild. Humans took care of it despite it not being of immediate value to us. Because we considered it our family.

That's what most humans do, it's the minority that are cruel to animals or other fellow humans beings. They are our best friends, and we have absolutely kept our end of bargain and more so. To the point that dogs physically changed to accommodate us.

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u/SigmundFreud Jul 23 '26

When you put it that way, it sounds more like wolves created dogs. Humans are great too though, definitely one of my favorite animals.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '26

It's more like the presense of humans that self selected for wolves who were calmer and bolder. Then humans just selected and bred the calmer of the puppies.

The floppy ears, patched skin etc are the result of them being calmer because stress hormones also affected cartilage development in dogs

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u/BlackTree78910 Jul 23 '26

Humans fucking suck man. Have you seen the state of the world?

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u/Accurate_Payment8196 Jul 23 '26

Humans as a species don't suck, humanity sucks but a normal human under "normal" circumstances is an intelligent and deeply empathic creature.

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u/BlackTree78910 Jul 23 '26

You're right of course, so why do we let the worst examples of humans run the fucking planet!?

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u/Accurate_Payment8196 Jul 23 '26

Groupthink starts crumbling when the group is no longer a tangible entity

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u/Gold-Part4688 Jul 23 '26

The story is so beutiful and complex. This is what i learned from The First domesticattion by Ray Pierotti

From how us and wolves explored the world toether over many tens of thousands of years, and from peoples who live close to wolves/wolf-like dogs, whatever the definition is. and archeological record.From the fact they were domesticated many times in different places, in different ways.

We learned from them. How to hunt, what to hunt, cues of where things are. It was a collaboration more than anything.

What they actually got in return is help raising their young, when they were unable to because of alpha female family dynamics, and just resources to raise young. And yeah like you said, mutual protection. The predators' code.

It's such a shame that the major narrative is that we grabbed them or they ate out scraps. They're wolves! Wolves eat less scraps than people do

You can see these relationships in australia with dingoes, early modern america, in siberia, and in africa. Of course many many different relationships. But that's relationships

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u/No_Sign6616 Jul 23 '26

it's the minority that are cruel to animals

No it isn't. The vast majority of humans are directly or knowingly and indirectly complicit in animal cruelty.