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the only animal that evolved to read your face just to manipulate you with theirs
means A domesticated four-legged mammal kept as a pet, guard, or working animal, descended from the wolf and famous for its loyalty to humans.
from From Old English 'docga,' a mysterious word that came out of nowhere and quietly elbowed aside the older general term 'hund' (which survives as 'hound'). Nobody is sure where 'docga' originally came from — it has no clear cousins in other Germanic languages, making it one of English's genuine etymological foundlings. It first seems to have named a specific powerful breed before swelling to mean the whole species, and from there it sprawled into endless idiom: dog-tired, dog days, going to the dogs.
- puppy eyes
- evolved a face muscle wolves don't have
- nose math
- smells in stereo, locating scent by direction
- yawn contagion
- catches yawns from humans they love
- ancient bond
- domesticated before farming, before everything
laika — soviet space dog who orbited earth in sputnik 2 in 1957
balto — sled dog who led 1925 serum run to nome, alaska during diphtheria outbreak
hachiko — akita who waited at tokyo station for 10 years after owner's 1925 death