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origins of domestication of dogs

prehistoric, tribal and later rural dogs that had to 'do it all'

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'common' rural people couldn't afford to feed x amount of dogs, when 1 (or 2) would do the job.
adaptable, multi-purpose dogs would be of great value.

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nobility, peasantry, hunting, forests, rights?

hunting to extinction

deforestation

• 1700s—Poaching starts in Europe as poorer people cannot find another way to get food to survive.[1]
• 1880s—Peasants are allowed to hunt small game that is on their farms as a means of survival in Europe.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poaching



Hunting has been practised in Britain since prehistoric times; it was a crucial activity of hunter-gatherer societies before the domestication of animals and the dawn of agriculture.
During the last ice age, humans and neanderthals hunted mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses by driving them over cliffs; evidence has been found at La Cotte de St Brelade on the island of Jersey.
In Britain, hunting with hounds was popular in Celtic Britain before the Romans arrived, using the Agassaei breed.^[2] The Romans brought their Castorian and Fulpine hound breeds to England, along with importing the brown hare (the mountain hare is native) and fallow deer as quarry. Wild boar was also hunted.
The earliest known attempt to specifically hunt a fox with hounds was in Norfolk, in the East of England, in 1534, where farmers began chasing down foxes with their dogs as a form of pest control. Packs of hounds were first trained specifically to hunt foxes in the late 17th century, with the oldest such fox hunt likely to be the Bilsdale in Yorkshire.^[3] By the end of the 17th century, many organised packs were hunting both hare and fox.