Humans and dogs have been friends for a very long time. However, all relationships have to start somewhere and this relationship is no different. From the beginning of domestication to where we are today, the way we have adapted dogs to our needs and the way dogs have adapted us to their needs is a story that seems fictional. This couldn't be further from the truth. We call them man's best friend for a reason: we artificially created them to become our best friends and they created the mannerisms we use today. It was also hypothesized by the father-son team SJ Olsen and JW Olsen (1977) that the domestication of dogs began in China. They proposed that, starting from a small subspecies of wolf, humans transformed it into the modern Chinese/Mongolian subspecies of Canis lupus chanco. There is another hypothesis that the Cro-Magnons may also have domesticated some dog breeds. A fragment of the right jaw of a dog was found at a Cro-Magnon site (Nobis, 1979); the jaw dates back 14,000 years. No matter what conflicting sources say specifically, we know that dogs were domesticated before 15,000 years ago and that they originated in Eurasia. Indeed, they crossed the land bridge to the Americas with us (JA Leonard, 2002), meaning that they played an important role in influencing us and helping us settle in the new world. Now we have a general idea of ​​when domestication began, but the next question is: why? Why did we make wolves our friends? Why not chimpanzees or some other type of primate? The answer lies in several reasons. Our old friends, even going back to Canis lupus, the gray wolf (the original ancestor of most modern dogs), have human-like qualities. Wolves are skilled hunters and gatherers, especially the gray wolf. No specific part of the paper... and cooperate with each other during the hunt, but there is also more, such as having mostly monogamous relationships but at the same time sharing food and providing parental care for all (Schleidt/Shalter, 2003 ), not unlike a Full House style blended family. Contrary to popular belief, this is where we get our similar mannerisms, and not the other way around; we learned from dogs. Think about this the next time you try to roll or sit Fido. Using popular belief, you would probably think that dogs have been our companions for thousands and thousands of years. In reality the question is this: are dogs our companions or are we companions of dogs? Without a doubt, we evolved dogs, but did dogs evolve us too? Would civilization exist if it weren't for dogs? This is the question I leave you with today. People and dogs, or dogs and people. The chicken and the egg.