My daughter and I were dog-sitting for my sister this evening…yes, dog-sitting. Anyway, she (my sister) has a new member in her little family. She adopted a dog from Animal Control (that’s a story in itself), and he’s the cutest little thing! He’s a Chihuahua or part Chihuahua, and he’s so shy. He was sidling up to Tina (my daughter), sniffing her stockinged feet and softly wagging his tail. Tina was scratching him behind his ear, when all of sudden, she said, “How is it that something this small, this tiny, actually descended from the wolf? How is that all dogs are descended from the wolf?”
   The only answer I could come up with was, “Many years of breeding.” But, then I began to think, how does a tiny, little bit nothing truly come from a wolf?” Where in the world did the selective process start? What makes a Chihuahua a Chihuahua; a Pekingese a Pekingese; a Border Collie a Border Collie? I mean if they ultimately share the same ancestors, where did the difference begin? Where did the “odd wolf out” come from to start the process of the different breeds? Today, it’s easy to understand how breeders use different breeds to create new ones, but in days gone by, where did those different breeds come from?