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 SOME LESSER DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 



OF the lesser animals which have shared man's protection 

 in return for services demanded of them, some have fallen 

 under his influence to a much greater extent than others, but 

 there are few which do not exhibit in some character or 

 other, the effect of his control. It is possible to discuss here 

 only those which have been brought into closest touch with 

 the civilization of Scotland. 



THE DOG 



Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, 

 Hound or spaniel, brach or lym, 

 Or bobtail tyke or trundle-tail. 



Whatever their characters be, dogs one and all owe their 

 parentage to wild species of the races of Wolves and Jackals. 

 Their origin is lost in the haze of ages ; some 3000 to 4000 

 years B.C., the Egyptians had their distinct breeds, and 

 the Lake-dwellers of the Swiss valleys possessed a domesti- 

 cated form of the Indian wolf. The chances are, therefore, 

 that the Neolithic immigrants to Scotland brought with them 

 dogs already domesticated; but the difficulty of distinguish- 

 ing between the bones of the early wolf-like dog and the wolf 

 itself, tends to obscure such information as might be gleaned 

 from the prehistoric deposits of Scotland. I have already 

 shown that the first comers to Scotland possessed no do- 

 mestic animals, but bones attributed to early dogs have been 

 found in river gravel near Currie in Midlothian, and buried 

 in peat on Morbhaich Moor near Tain in Ross-shire. It is 

 highly probable, moreover, that the dog was familiar to the 

 people of the late Neolithic period in Scotland some 2000 



