The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf. Also called the residential dog, it was domesticated from an defunct residents of wolves during the Late Pleistocene, on 14,000 years ago during hunter-gatherers, prior to the phenomenon of agriculture. The dog was the first species to be domesticated via humans. Experts judge that unpaid to their big linkage with humans, heart dogs take expanded to a sturdy party of domestic individuals and gained the ability to thrive on a starch-rich regime that would be unsuitable instead of other canids.[4]

The dog has been selectively bred over millennia after divers behaviors, sensory capabilities, and physical attributes.[5] Dog breeds diversify widely in disguise, make an estimate of, and including color. They accomplish myriad roles in behalf of humans, such as hunting, herding, pulling loads, immunity, assisting the cops and the military, company, analysis, and aiding incapacitated people. Over the millennia, dogs became uniquely adapted to kind-hearted behavior, including and the fallible–canine bond has been a keynote of constant study. This on on forgiving society has postulated them the sobriquet of "gink's most beneficent friend".