0_Apprentice
Hi, do you like dogs?
1_Wizard
I do! Actually, my favourite is the Basenji breed! It is a hunting dog.
0_Apprentice
Oh, those are cool. I have seen them on the Westminster Dog Show, but I've never met one in person. I have a Havanese. 
1_Wizard
Wow, are you Cuban? I know that the Havanese are the national dog of cuba!
0_Apprentice
No, not Cuban, but yes they are the national dog of Cuba! Apparently all the Havanese in the US are descended from a handful that came here from Cuba during the revolution!
1_Wizard
Wow! So amazing- imagine,  they were the first species to be domesticated!
0_Apprentice
My kids comment sometimes on how funny it is that we have animals live with us and they are like part of the family. Why dogs, and not, say, squirrels? LOL
1_Wizard
Exactly! And imagine, they came from a breed of widely abundant terrestrial carnivore. How did we manage to domesticate them?
0_Apprentice
It's a good question. And I wonder when it started happening?  
1_Wizard
Well some say 14, 700 years and others have even argued 36,000 years! Blows my mind!