That connection caused me to start doing research into the whole human-dog relationship.
But Sherwood cautions that the same human dark forces that haunt us here will logically dog human settlements in space.
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He had no natural gift for painting human faces, which he got around by painting dog heads onto human bodies.
Once they see the animal, they dive and pin it to the ground, letting a human or gun-dog retrieve the carcass.
"Most dog breeds have really only been around since Victorian times, " said Elaine Ostrander of the National Human Genome Research Institute's Dog Genome Project.
The man who found a human ear while walking a dog in an Aylesbury graveyard says he is in "disbelief".
So if the seven dog years to one human year is wrong how do we work out an accurate calculation?
While participants viewed a variety of images including human faces, doll faces, dog faces, toy dog faces, and clocks, the research team recorded the activity of their brains.
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It was still the kind of place where a stray dog might deposit a human hand under the breakfast table, where an ox could burst into the dining room.
The latter concept should be of great interest, as the fascination by human owners with the Aibo pet dog probably did not last longer than a couple of weeks.
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Drones are already able to take off, fly a mission and land without any human intervention, and a mechanical dog developed by the Pentagon can walk for 20 miles (32km) without a break and obey voice commands.
That has led to concerns that the birds used to make the eggs themselves could succumb to bird flu. (The companies emphasize that the chickens are kept under extremely secure conditions.) There is research going on to use dog, monkey or human cell cultures to produce flu shots, but such production is five to ten years away.
An ice cream tub containing a substance believed to be human placenta has been found by a dog walker, police say.
It showed the distribution of the most common varieties including the human flea (Pulex irritans), the dog flea (Ctenocephalides canis) and the cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis).
Researchers concluded that any such "guilty look" is a response to human behaviour and has no relation with the dog's actions or sense of having broken any rules.
Now, beyond table scraps, store-bought dog food is nearly impossible to distinguish from human food.
LS3, a dog-like robot, trots behind a human over rough terrain, carrying up to 180kg of supplies.
Also, one of her six children is allergic to dog hair, so Petey's coarse, human-like hair is ideal.
Aquabot was easy to take in and out of the pool, and the dog, which is prone to barking at the human cleaner, treated the mechanical version with blessed indifference.
Like human-focused equivalents, there will also be provisions for sharing your dog's efforts, but thankfully only with vets and research institutions.
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Whereas every dog lab now tests the cognition of its animals while their human owners are blindfolded or asked to face away, young children are still presented with cognitive tasks while sitting on their mothers' laps.
You get what you pay for--a dog's nose has 2 billion odor receptors, 40 times as many as a human's--but there are limits to what even the military is willing to spend on an animal.
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