Feral dogs are influenced by the photoperiod with around half of the breeding females mating in the springtime as can be inferred from wolves and Cape hunting dogs .
The springtime is thought to indicate an ancestral reproductive trait not overcome by domestication .
Feral dogs are influenced by the photoperiod with around half of the breeding females mating in the springtime , which is thought to indicate an ancestral reproductive trait not overcome by domestication , as can be inferred from wolves and Cape hunting dogs .