Hey everyone, welcome to Houndations. I'm your host Tony Peterson,

and this first episode is all about all relationship with dogs and how that came to be. Look, I'm of the opinion that we all want a better relationship with our dogs, but we might not know how to get there.

You know, that's kind of the gist of this whole podcast concept, honestly, but it has to start somewhere,

and I don't think there's a better place to begin than trying to understand just how our

co-evolution with wild canines came to be and what that means not only for us but for our dogs.

It's a fascinating story complete with a hell of a lot of mystery.

But what it does reveal are clues to how lucky we are to have dogs and how much better we can

understand them once we know where they

came from and what makes them tick. Now there's a lot more to this than most people

think and it's what I'm going to talk about right freaking now.

I read a quote recently that said most humans are far more comfortable with

unquestionable answers than unanswerable questions. We don't like the thought of

not knowing what happens to us when we kick the old bucket.

So it's comforting to believe that we are about to get a sweet new robe and float around on some

clouds for eternity with all of our old relatives and pets.

We tend to develop worlds that fit mostly with what we can know or what

we have been told from a young age. We like answers. We like working with parameters that make sense to us.

Our brains are good at imagining distances we can walk,

but not so great at imagining distances that stretch way beyond the limits of an evening stroll.

Take a light year, for example.

This phrase gets thrown around a lot by space geeks, like me, and normal normal folks alike but what does it mean? Well in short in a

vacuum light travels 186,000 miles every second over the course of 365 days that distance equals roughly 6 trillion miles.

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