About me and my philosophy

Love of dogs is not unusual. Dogs have held an absolutely extraordinary place in our lives since the dawn of humanity. Even in the Neolithic period, around 8,000 years ago, dogs were carefully buried alongside their owners, with grave goods and all the care with which their two-legged owners were buried. They were sometimes taken for walks, like their modern-day descendants, as can be deduced from cave paintings, and of course they have played an important role in the hunting chain since then.

It is interesting that people at that time clearly distinguished between ‚dogs‘ and ‚animals‘. Dogs were depicted together with hunters and clearly distinguished from the hunted animals or even from wolves!

The Aztecs used dogs to accompany the souls of the dead. The Egyptians depicted Anubis in the form of a dog (Anubis is the ancient Egyptian god of the dead and mummification).

Around the globe, the dog is the only ‚pet‘ (in an apostrophe because, as already described, it is much more than just a pet) that is native to every society, on every continent and in every culture – and has been for thousands of years. Whether in the middle of Europe, among the Inuit in the north, among the Native Americans, in Central Asia (where the origins of Canis Lupus Familiaris can also be traced back), Papua New Guinea, in the Amazon, in the Sahara or Australia (although the dog is relatively new there. The dingo, which is considered to be the original dog there, belongs to the suborder Canis Lupus Dingo and is therefore not strictly speaking a ‚dog‘ as we define it), dogs are a part of people’s everyday lives everywhere.

Whether as a helper on the hunt (from the origins to the present day), as a fighting dog in war in ancient times and the Middle Ages (or in battle for the dubious entertainment of the public – unfortunately also from ancient times to the present day), to protect the flock, to herd or simply as a lap dog that served as a cuddly hot water bottle for the upper classes in the Middle Ages on cold winter evenings – dogs have become irreplaceable companions to humans. In more recent times they have also been used as therapy, assistance and rescue dogs, in sport and in the police and army. And of course, for most people they are simply part of the family. Canis Lupus Familiaris!

Whether the dog came to man or man came to the dog is not clear. But what is certain is that we have taken them into our family and over thousands of years they have shaped and changed them so that there is a suitable canine companion for (almost) every situation in life. Be it in the remote mountains of Anatolia or in a single apartment in Munich.