#International Dog Day Is Today!

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Every dog has its day and today is every dog’s day!

After all, setting International Dog Day in late August only make sense as we are amidst the dog days of summer.

Seriously, not only are dogs loyal and loving companions, a solid case can be made that dogs are humanity’s essential early innovation. 

More important than learning how to use fire essential.

Early on domesticated wolves protected their humans and in time dogs took on other tasks to help their humans, ranging from pulling sleds to hunting to herding and more.

A whole lot more as well as dogs continue to develop new useful skills.

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In more recent years, dogs have been ever-increasingly utilized to take care of humans who have various needs of assistance. 

Not just as guide dogs for the blind, but also for one of many other examples as caretakers that can sense such things as impending seizures in their humans before they happen as well as are also trained to take care of their charge until the seizure passes.

That and more recently many family dogs have stepped up to help their humans work from home with many such dogs becoming popular team members via their participating in video conferencing.

Super hospital therapy dog Joca
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Speaking of popular, few dogs are more popular than comfort dogs utilized to make things more chill, be it visiting those shut-in, greeting hotel guests, helping out at schools or supporting police in the wake of traumatic events.

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