[LEFT][FONT=helvetica][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=11px] [/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT] [QUOTE] [LEFT][FONT=helvetica][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=11px]All the domestic breeds of dogs that we are familiar with, from chihuahuas to pit bulls, are the same species: [I]Canis lupus familiaris[/I]. In fact, our dogs are a subspecies of [I]Canis lupus[/I], or wolf. Your dog could interbreed with most wolves -if you weren’t a responsible pet owner who spayed or neutered your dog.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT] [LEFT][FONT=helvetica][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=11px][I][/I][/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT] [LEFT][FONT=helvetica][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=11px]Dogs belong to the taxonomic family [I]Canidae[/I] (canines) which is divided into two tribes: those related to wolves ([I]Canini[/I]) and those related to foxes ([I]Vulpini[/I]). A couple of canine species lay outside these two tribes, but hyenas are [I]not[/I] canines. They look like and act like dogs, but as we learned in [URL='http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/129241'][U][COLOR=#00a0c6]a post last week[/COLOR][/U][/URL], hyenas are more closely related to [I]cats[/I] than to dogs! Let’s look at some wild dogs that [I]are[/I]related to your pet.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT][/QUOTE][LEFT][FONT=helvetica][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=11px][/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT] [url]http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/130617[/url] Most of them on the list, I would've guessed. Then again, I would've assumed that hyenas were also more closely related, too, and I would've been wrong.