In Miocene and Oligocene in Europe the ancestor of the canine family evolved, soon giving rise to many species of small dogs. [1] Toward the close of the ice age the majority of dogs and other animal species were extinct in North America. [2] At first dogs only howled, but later on they learned to bark. [3] Dog was first adopted by blue man. [4] It was the first animal to be domesticated. It was used for food, hunting, transportation, and companionship. [5] The dog was the first domesticated animal and was held in high esteem both as such and as food. [6] The employment of watchdogs made it first possible for the whole clan to sleep at night. [7] It was believed that dogs could detect the approach of ghosts, and that they gave warning by howling. [8] The death of Abel became known to his parents when his dogs brought the flocks home without their master. [9] The dog came to be the sacred animal of the Parsees. [10]
Jesus and Ganid had enjoyed playing with a very intelligent shepherd dog, and Ganid wanted to know if the dog had a soul, if it had a will. Jesus replied that the dog cannot know God and cannot enjoy a spiritual experience. [11] It was the dogs that caused the swine to fall off a cliff in the event of Jesus' supposed healing of a demoniac in Kheresa. [12]
Norana, the Syrian woman who wanted Jesus to heal her daughter, compared herself to a dog that wants to eat the crumbs that fall from the table of the privileged, something that caused Jesus to praise seeing such great faith. [13]
Jesus said: “Present not that which is holy to dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample your gems under foot and turn to rend you”. [14]