Chris Higginbotham posted yesterday on the CSI Facebook page about his doberman causing him to inadvertently hit the “save data” button before categorizing an image. Human-dog interactions go back a long ways. As a paper that appeared this spring argues, this human-canine association might originate with wolves scavenging from ancient compost piles.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21142870
What’s the name of the dog who visits one of the compost piles pretty regularly?
We affectionately (and rather unimaginatively) call that black lab, “compost dog.” He’s been a regular visitor since the start of the experiment. Rather elusive, he seems to live somewhere up the road. We have never seen him with a human, but he clearly receives human attention and is not feral. There was even a spell when he would appear wearing an E-collar (one of those post-surgery Elizabethan collars to keep a dog from chewing on its sutures).