Some 14,000 years ago, people were already nursing sick dogs.

12,000 BC

A puppy buried with two humans near Bonn had survived canine distemper, which researchers say it could only have done with constant human care.

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The event

• The Bonn–Oberkassel dogc. 12,000 BC · Bonn, Germany. Some 14,000 years ago a seven-month-old puppy was buried beside two people, one of the earliest secure records of the domestic dog. It had survived canine distemper, which researchers think was possible only because people fed, watered and cared for it.

Prehistory

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