Dogs: Man's best friend? It was women who made them family pets
4 Feb, 2021 01:06 AM
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Men used working dogs but women made family pets of them, says study. Photo / 123RF
Daily Telegraph UK
By: Max Stephens
While kings, poets and philosophers have repeated the adage "a dog is a man's best friend", a new study argues that it was women who first created the bond between canines and humans.
In one of the first anthropological studies of its kind, researchers at Washington State University revealed while men may have used dogs for hunting or herding, it was women who gave them names and treated them with affection in the way humans do today.