Didn’t I answer this 4 years ago?
No. I read it again and wondered if there was some new research.
:dubious:
Umm, you do understand that whoever Aborigines obtained dogs from must have also breast fed them, for the same reasons. Right?
And whoever *those *people obtained dogs from must have also breast fed them, for the same reasons. And so ad infinitum?
Someone had to have discovered that dogs can be domesticated. And whoever that was had to have breast fed them, because strains of dogs that could be raised without breast feeding them are far more recent than the domestication of the dog itself.
Ergo people had to have regularly nursed pups for at least 5,000 years.
People? Or some group of Aborigines?
Wibble.
Same as happens when a human baby starts teething, or when a puppy nursing from the bitch starts teething – they learn pretty quickly not to bite the nipple that’s feeding you, or you go hungry.
Cat nursing ducklings:
A female goat is a doe. A baby female goat is a doeling. A male goat is buck. Baby male goat is a buckling. Ignoring the sex, baby goats are kids. Nanny in my experience is a doe who is nursing a kid or two or more. A castrated male is called a wether – I think that applies to sheep as well.
Now aren’tcha glad I stayed up late? 