The dog is the first domestic animal and commonly known as "man's best friend". Dogs have accompanied humans and been considered pets for around 10,000 years. used for work, hunting, but most often as a pet. To date, there are hundreds of different dog breeds, varying in size, color and shape. Although dogs are currently considered primarily pets, they were not always that way. way and have had their own evolution. To fully understand dogs, we must examine where they came from and how they evolved. Dogs are a subspecies of the gray wolf. Dogs have inherited many behaviors from their wolf ancestors. have evolved, which constitute a large part of their identity as dogs. Wolves, however, remain wilder than dogs with trends such as diets based on ungulates or large hoofed mammals, such as elk, deer, moose and caribou. Wolves are also known to eat beavers, rabbits, and other small prey" (basic). Wolves, unlike dogs, feed on other animals to survive, while domesticated dogs generally eat food Dog food generally comes in three varieties including raw food, wet food and dry food, most of which are store brand and store bought, many forms of dog food are meat based, similar. to the gray wolf's carnivorous diet, beyond store-bought foods, domesticated dogs, however, form natural instincts that tend to cause them to sometimes attack smaller prey Communication patterns have also been passed down. from gray wolves to dogs, because the behaviors that dogs inherited from wolves include "a complex communication system ranging from barking and whining to growling and howling" (Basic). Dogs generally bark to show a variety of emotions and bark in the middle of a paper......wolves, and evolved specifically from the gray wolf species. This evolution began around 10,000 years ago, when the first dogs were domesticated. Although exactly how dogs were domesticated is still controversial, it has been accepted that human interaction most likely had something to do with it. However, it also remains possible that dogs domesticated themselves rather than humans having a major impact in the domestication of dogs. The exact circumstances may never be known as to how this officially happened. Dogs evolved and became domesticated to become the animals and pets that humans know and love today. They are used for many jobs and are one of the most popular pets around the world. Hundreds of different breeds of dogs have been bred and dogs continue to be one of the most genetically diverse animals on Earth..