老外在中国：狗为啥会死心塌地跟着人类？_美文

老外在中国：狗为啥会死心塌地跟着人类？

数万年前，在人类漫长的进化过程中，狗决定放弃大自然，让项圈束缚住自己，丢失了自己的狼性，陪伴在人类左右，吃着人类给的骨头，而不是和群狼一样，咬断人类的脖颈，将其当作开胃菜。你可能会问，驯化后的犬类为何会对任性的人类忠心耿耿？如果有一天，狗突然能够说话了，它或许会告诉你答案。

Whether or not you spell their name backwards, or consider that they may in fact be the species with nine lives as the number itself is fully spelled out within their very name, dogs (aka: canines) are indeed sublime, perhaps even divine critters.

不管你将它们的名字反着拼（dog——god），还是根据它们的物种名字（canine）认为它们实际上有九条命，狗（犬科动物）确实是崇高的，甚至是神圣的动物。

As luck would have it, Canis domesticus has for some reason decided to hitch its waggly-tailed wagon to we upright-walking—though hardly upright—schmucks.

幸好，出于某种原因，它们决定被人类驯化，摇摆着尾巴做直立行走（虽然极少品行正直之辈）的愚蠢人类的跟班。

At some point tens of thousands of years ago in the evolution of mankind, dogs decided to throw nature for a loop and lose their lupus tendencies, preferring long walks by our side and dry bones for snacks instead of the loose flesh of our necks as appetizers, as wolfpacks are wont to do.