Wolf commodity

Continually we see the public adopt new products and suddenly every home has one. For example cell phones or computers or dishwashers or cars.

Just as frequently as new products emerge, old products fall into disfavor disappear. For example the meat grinder that was found in every American kitchen after the Second World War.

Wouldn’t it be interesting to travel back through time and see the advance and decline of products? What about a metal plow? Imagine the first metal pot. At some point in history, a metal pot appeared in every kitchen. The western Indians were won over for need of metal utensils.

So I just read an article on the dog. It was talking about the domestication of dogs and how every breed was a descendant of the wild wolf. The analysis was discussing ‘flight distance’ and imagined that wolves who were less likely to run from humans were more successful.

I suspect that wolves were trapped, and that the cubs were domesticated.

It doesn’t matter how it happened actually, but probably at some point in history, wolf cubs became a popular item much like a DVD player, and a brisk trade emerged for the commodity.

Gene Haynes