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  2. Livestock guardian dog - Wikipedia

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    A livestock guardian dog (LGD) is a dog type bred for the purpose of protecting livestock from predators. Livestock guardian dogs stay with the group of animals they protect as a full-time member of the flock or herd. [1] Their ability to guard their herd is mainly instinctive, as the dog is bonded to the herd from an early age. [2]

  3. List of domesticated animals - Wikipedia

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    bloodletting, surgery, therapy, research, saliva, pets Captive-bred 7b Annelida: Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) 700–500 BCE [44] Chile, Peru, Mexico: dye Very common in the wild 6b Other insects: Indian (Pavo cristatus) and green peafowl (P. muticus) 500 BCE (uncertain for P. muticus) India, Java: meat, feathers, ornamental, guarding, pest ...

  4. Mama Dog Adopting Orphaned Baby Goat Is So Full of Pure ... - AOL

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    In fact, it is advised to keep more than one goat at a time, and if you don’t, to keep your goat around other social livestock like donkeys or sheep. Or, apparently dogs.

  5. Domestication - Wikipedia

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    The first animal to be domesticated by humans was the dog, as a commensal, at least 15,000 years ago. Other animals, including goats, sheep, and cows, were domesticated around 11,000 years ago. Among birds, the chicken was first domesticated in East Asia, seemingly for cockfighting, some 7,000 years ago. The horse came under domestication ...

  6. A 9-year-old girl’s goat was slaughtered by California ...

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    Cedar the goat shown before the family pet was seized by sheriff’s officials and taken to slaughter, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit. Court filings shed new light on Cedar’s fate.

  7. Chupacabra - Wikipedia

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    Chupacabras can be literally translated as 'goat-sucker', from chupar ('to suck') and cabras ('goats'). It is known as both chupacabras and chupacabra throughout the Americas, with the former being the original name, [ 3 ] and the latter a regularization .

  8. Domestication of vertebrates - Wikipedia

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    Feral mammals such as dogs, cats, goats, donkeys, pigs, and ferrets that have lived apart from humans for generations show no sign of regaining the brain mass of their wild progenitors. [ 12 ] [ 52 ] Dingos have lived apart from humans for thousands of years but still have the same brain size as that of a domestic dog.

  9. Livestock - Wikipedia

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    Dogs were domesticated early; dogs appear in Europe and the Far East from about 15,000 years ago. [10] Goats and sheep were domesticated in multiple events sometime between 11,000 and 5,000 years ago in Southwest Asia. [11] Pigs were domesticated by 8,500 BC in the Near East [12] and 6,000 BC in China. [13] Domestication of horses dates to ...