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On Mon, 5/12/14, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML]ChemistryQuestion
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Monday, May 12, 2014, 12:04 PM

 On May 10, 2014, at 2:13 PM, Knapp <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:

 > Not to sure if Rob or Tim wrote this.
 > How many generations did it take to turn a wolf into a
 chiwawa?
 > 

 1) That was not evolution, that was a directed breeding
 program

 2) Canines, especially dogs, seem to have only a few genes
 controlling a lot pf physical characteristics it’s easy to
 turn the basic dog into a Great Dane or Chihuahua. <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100810203503.htm>

 3) The domestication of canids seems to have taken only a
 few canid generations, if current thinking is correct.
 It’s already been seen in experimental evidence <https://www.americanscientist.org/issues/issue.aspx?id=813&y=0&no&content=true&page=3&css=print>

 Current thought holds that prior to domestication there
 already was a sorting of wild canids into groups more and
 less afraid of humans. The ones that were less afraid were
 the less aggressive ones, (like breeding for less aggressive
 foxes), and fed off of human garbage dumps close to human
 groups, almost a ’self-domestication’ process.

 These canids were amenable to domestication, and since
 adoption of dogs into the group would rapidly benefit the
 human groups with greater hunting and security success, the
 practice spread rapidly.

 We have archaeological evidence of canid domestication
 occurring within one or two human generations.

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So then when the Ancients showed up & took humans they naturally were also interested in their 'companions', discovered how easy it was to 'manipulate' them, & took them too.

Or did the ancients come before canid domestication?