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Why do I love my dog when, in evolutionary terms, there are no benefits to me? (continued)

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Sean O’Curneen Brussels, Belgium

It is easy to see how domesticating wolves and loving dogs may have helped the development of human society, through improved hunting and farming.

Whether dog-loving humans could one day thrive over people who, say, love cats is a question I have thought carefully about.

Could walking a dog once or twice a day – while clutching a poo bag – ever become a necessity for human survival? I think it would be such a dystopian scenario that I, for one, would never want to see it.

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