{"id":1143,"date":"2009-08-03T22:59:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T22:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/bbc-news-science-environment-domestic-dog-origins-challenged\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T22:59:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T22:59:28","slug":"bbc-news-science-environment-domestic-dog-origins-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/bbc-news-science-environment-domestic-dog-origins-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC NEWS | Science &amp; Environment | Domestic dog origins challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted from <cite>http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8182371.stm<\/cite>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8182371.stm\"> BBC NEWS | Science &amp;amp; Environment | Domestic dog origins challenged <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;\">The authors say the process by which humans domesticated the dog is poorly   understood. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Having been a beagle owner for over 20 years, I can tell you up front, they are looking at it backwards.  I&#8217;ve been quite convinced that the ancestor of the beagle, saw us sitting at a fire, eating food, and thought:  how do I get some of that?<\/p>\n<p>When I married my husband, his beagle had completely trained him &#8212; if I give you a sock, you&#8217;ll give me something to eat.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the most effective means of training both dogs and cats involve a give and take situation &#8212; also know as clicker training.  Both parties think they are training each other, so both parties are happy and get what they want.<br \/>\n<!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted from http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8182371.stm: BBC NEWS | Science &amp;amp; Environment | Domestic dog origins challenged The authors say the process by which humans domesticated the dog is poorly understood. Having been a beagle owner for over 20 years, I can tell you up front, they are looking at it backwards. I&#8217;ve been quite convinced that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}