where can I find dogs in nature? where're they from?

Question

I know tigers can be found in forest, dolphins can be found in ocean nature.
But where can I find dog in nature? I am not talking about wild dogs like dingo. Any breed type. for example, where can I find a Maltese/boxer/cattle dog in nature? not those in pet shop or raise in backyard. If nobody breed these dogs, is that mean there will be no more dog and extinct? where are these dog breed origin from? and why there's no more in nature except household or petshop?

is that mean all these dog breed are in nature long long time ago? that's mean we can find gangs of maltese or boxers in wild forest thousand thousand years ago?

Answer 1

Wolves and Dingos go back tens of thousands of years and just like the horses, oxen and so on people selected animals that were a little different in some way and bred them to try to maintain the characteristic that they thought was an improvement on the wild version. Over time different people selected for different characteristics and developed many distinct types that were starting to look nothing like the wild version of the animal. Over thousands of years selective breeding stabalised some of these new types as definite breeds (always come true to type) and also created more varieties of the existing ones. Some of the "domesticated" dogs would have gone feral/been lost and returned to a wild life where they would have bred with wild animals and over thousands of years the true wild dogs would have dissapeared. It is believed that since Europeans came to Australia with dogs only 200 or so years ago that there are now almost no true pure bred Dingos left in the wild and that probably 99% of them have some sort of cross to at least one "domestic" breed somewhere in their background- it is quite possible that in a few hundred years time the Dingo will as we know it will also have dissapeared.

A breed simply means it a type of a particular animal with stabalised charachteristics (always breeds true to type) that are different to other breeds just as a shetl;and pony is one breed of horse and draught horses are another.

Most Breeds of dogs start out as mutts where someone thinks that they can create a dog that runs faster or hunts better or can stand the cold better etc... and they keep breeding more dogs using that initial cross and then breed the cross breeds with each other. Breding the cross breeds will produce a range of characteristics varying from being like one or the other grandparent to being just like the cross bred parents and they would then choose those puppies that ramianed like the cross bred parents and keep selecting puppies for the disred characteristics until all the dogs were breeding "true type". You will not find any "wild dogs" (other than those (painted wild dogs of kenya- which I am not sure whether they are even related to dogs or not) in the wild.

Answer 2

You wont find any domesticated dogs in the wild. If you are interested in the origins of a particular breed, theres plenty of info out there :) There are still some dogs in the wild though, such as the wolf and the dingo. Maltese and other domestic dogs were never 'wild'.

Answer 3

You won't find domesticated breeds in nature because they don't exist there. Like all animals that have been bred for human enjoyment, their genepool has been messed around with so much over thousands of years that the dogs of today do not resemble their ancestors very much at all... A bit like the difference between you and a caveman.

You've had a spark of inspiration and started to think about something - that's a good thing, but unfortunately you've led yourself on a wild goose chase! :P

Answer 4

These dogs can not be found in nature... because they have been bred by people - just as you don't find thoroughbred racehorses in nature either.

These dogs are however at some stage, long ago, descended from wild dogs which man then domesticated.

There are still wild dogs, like the African hunting dog...

Answer 5

No, the dog is a modification of the gray wolf. All dogs are descended from the gray wolf and are still only .02% different in mitochondrial dna from the wolf. Their appearances are very different along with their behavior but they are all wolves inside.
The first 'dogs' were wolves which were then selected for particular traits. In the thousands of years they have lived with man, we have modified their look and their behavior to best fit what we needed. That is why you have salukis with sleek bodies and short hair for chasing rabbits in the desert and you have akbash with longer hair for protecting sheep in cold climates.
So the dog never existed in the wild, they only existed once we took the wolf and modified it to our uses.
All 'dogs' in the wild (the dingo and others) are feral and were once domestic dogs but have reverted to the wild for existence.

Answer 6

Dogs were the very first domesticated animal something like 10,000 years ago. They are all descended from wolves. From there we have selectively bred them to change thier size, color, temperment. etc.

So to answer your question, You won't find any of these breeds as wild animals.. The only thing you can find in the wild are wolves.

Answer 7

You will not find any dog breeds in the wild. They have become domesticated over several hundreds of years and they have been bred for select traits to emerge.

Answer 8

um...dogs have been domesticated for a long long time. the breeds you see today were created by humans. they never lived in nature. there's no such thing as say, a wild maltese. dogs you see today were bred by humans for specific jobs, like hunting, protection and companionship.

Answer 9

All domestic dogs are originaly from either wolves or african dogs.

Domestic dogs are mutations of wolves. When a pup is born diferent it is watched very closely to see if it has any traits that might be helpful to man. What today would be called GMOs Yep that is exactly what they are.

Answer 10

You can find very dog-LIKE creatures, like the Dingo in Australia..