The food that humans have led to one possible way of domestication and continues to be one of the ways that most dogs are able to live now. One way that wolves may have domesticated is that the being around became beneficial for the wolves due to the food scraps and waste produced by humans. With this new relationship building, wolves feared humans less and eventually became companions to humans that we know now (Morell, 2015). Today, dependence on food from humans is how the majority of dogs live. Teddy is given food in a bowl from his owners and begs for food from the table whenever his family is eating a meal. He sleeps in a house and is fully dependent on his family giving him food and shelter, but there are other dogs that live off humans in different ways, such as stray and pariah dogs. These dogs rely on humans in a similar way to the domestication theory because they are not fed directly from humans, and instead use human waste and their way of life as a means to survive (Miklósi, 2018).
MikIósi, Á, Faragó, T., Fugazza, C., Gácsi, M., Kubinyi, E., Pongrcáz, P., & Topál, J. (2018). The Dog: A Natural History. PRINCETON; OXFORD: Princeton University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x76dd3
Morell, V. (2015). FROM WOLF TO DOG. Scientific American,313(1), 60-67. doi:10.2307/26045941
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