Humans weren’t best friends with dogs first, says the Discoveryon blog. Archaeologists have found evidence that foxes may have been our pets first:
Scientists analysing remains at a prehistoric burial ground in Jordan have uncovered a grave in which a fox was buried with a human, dated thousands of years before dogs were kept as companions, reports the Daily Mail.
They believe that the unprecedented case – in which the remains of the animal and the man were then partially transferred to an adjacent grave – points to some kind of emotional link between human and fox.
The fox grave is 4,000 years older than the earliest known dog burial.