“The way I see it, dogs had this big meeting, oh, maybe 20,000 years ago. A huge meeting — an international convention with delegates from everywhere. And that's when they decided that humans were the up-and-coming species and dogs were going to throw their lot in with them. The decision was obviously not unanimous. The wolves and dingoes walked out in protest.”

— Charles Krauthammer

"Of Dogs and Men", TIME magazine (10 June 2003) http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,457373,00.html
2000s, 2003

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