This infographic on the history of man’s best friend may be cute, but it hides the dark side of dog breeding. Some 40,000 years ago, dogs were wolves: silver-eyed stalkers who hunted man with blood-smeared lips in the deserts of Paleolithic Persia. Today, though, millennia of domestication have turned those limber predators into an assorted motley of breeds like the Pomeranian, a pocketbook-sized
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