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CHAPTER 2 - AN EXCURSION INTO HISTORY AND THE

THEORETICAL BASIS FOR THE TERM “DOMESTICATION”
OR THE BECOMING OF PETS

Around the mid-1850s. One of the first photos of Native Americans. The
photo shows a “domesticated” wolf as a pet or favourite animal of the native
American. What does “domesticated” mean here? Were humans and wolves
simply friends or was the wolf saying: Please do you have a job for me? I need
some work!

- “Domestication”, a brief consideration of the theoretical foundations

S. Renker states: “It is hard for people of postmodern industrial and service societies to
imagine how central the role of hunting must be considered to human development. For the

first 90% of our history, we were exclusively hunters and gatherers” [15].

A basic reflex today is: What breed are we talking about here? This classification,
however, was irrelevant until the 20th century, because until then the regional type of
use in the form of a landrace was in the foreground, not the outer appearance of a dog or

the specialised economic form of performance. Therefore, we also have to look at the
selection criteria for the animals in the household differently, depending on whether it
took place before the classification since Linné and Darwin, or only afterwards.