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IIRC dogs may have domesticated themselves by coming to visit us to eat our poop, not our hand feeding.


I realize that all this is conjectural, but:

Why is that more likely than just "eating the bones, skin, feet, and other animal parts the humans didn't eat" ?

Either is more likely than "hand feeding" since that takes a pretty tamed animal.


Hunter gatherers eat the whole animal. Who’s throwing out skin and feet?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animals-and-us/20200...


thanks. New name for a restaurant for dogs: The Coprophagia Cafe




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