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.

Essay, June 16, 2003, originally published in Time magazine, "Of Dogs and Men" at mynameis roxie.com.