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Dogs are also primed to trust their owners, because tens of thousands of years of domestication made them deeply attached to us. You May Also Like. ANIMALS. How did wolves evolve into dogs?

After all, early dogs survived by scavenging trash around human settlements, and that’s how most feral dogs make it today. “The last 14 to 40,000 years, that’s what they've been surviving on ...