“When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’
And the woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always.’ “

– Rudyard Kipling

Long ago, wolves and humans likely met on the trail of the large grazing animals that they both hunted. Some scientists conclude that the dog became an evolutionary inevitability as soon as humans and wolves came into contact.

The dog is the wolf who came in from the cold, who traded wolf society for human society. Both wolves and humans brought unique, complementary talents to a relationship based on mutual respect. We chose them, to be sure, but they chose us too.