> https://www.livescience.com/stone-age-dog-burial.html https://www.livescience.com/stone-age-dog-burial.html "Of note, it's unclear whether the dog died a nat

> https://www.livescience.com/stone-age-dog-burial.html https://www.livescience.com/stone-age-dog-burial.html "Of note, it's unclear whether the dog died a natural death, or whether it was killed to be buried with its human. An analysis of its remains may reveal this mystery." What are the odds that the dog died of natural causes at exactly the same time as the owner? > Abuse of a dog or cat is a crime against civilization itself. That logic doesn't follow. If dogs predate civilization, then how could it be a crime against civilization? Your article is about dogs in primitive hunter gatherer societies. Not civilizations. Besides, many civilizations have thrived abusing dogs and cats. You might want to read what the bible says about 'unclean' dogs. Or why we have the saying 'there is more than one way to skin a cat'. Or how 'civilizations' dispatched of dogs not too long ago. https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/where-they-used-to-drown-the-dogs/ https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/... Not to mention the millions of cats/dogs that are 'euthanized' every year or the hundreds of million of cats and dogs that are castrated ( which people oddly don't consider to be abuse ). Heck, it's not hard to argue that imprisoning animals in your home as 'pets' is abuse. If anything, civilization is an abuse against dogs and cats.