Playing A Game Of Go, Find – AKC Tracking Tests

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306 – The Annual, 2024-25

By William Given

It is the dog’s nose, its power to discriminate scent and the dog’s ability to follow a track that many believe lead to the single most culturally significant occurrence in all of human history. And, that event was the domestication of the dog. Exactly where domestication first began is widely debated, but genetic evidence suggests that it occurred between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago. So, it was a process that took place over thousands of years, but as it was happening, the fates of both species became intertwined.

The most reasonable theory for this special relationship suggests that it was simply mutually beneficial to both. With their highly developed sense of smell, Paleolithic dogs tracked megafauna (like the Mastodon, Wooly Mammoth and Giant Ground Sloth), early man followed the dogs and killed these large animals and both ate.

Some history on tracking

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