Giovanni Padrone 🇺🇦
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dogshistorian.bsky.social
Giovanni Padrone 🇺🇦
@dogshistorian.bsky.social
🐶 Dogs built civilization — I just write about it. 🧬 Evolution | 🎼 Noise | 📸 Love Hard truths, hard riffs, soft paws. #SlavaUkraini #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice 👣 Come for the #dogs, stay for the revolution. #DogsofBluesky
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In Origins, I retrace the Sloughi’s journey—its role in history, its cultural symbolism, and its scientific roots. Discover how this desert sighthound embodies both beauty and rigor. #OriginsBook #DogHistory #Slough #ancienthistory
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Genetic and zooarchaeological studies confirm: the Slough is not a modern invention, but a lineage that stretches back through millennia. A bridge between myth and science, tradition and evidence. #DogGenetics #Archaeology #AncientDogs
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
For centuries, the Slough walked beside Berber tribes and Arab dynasties. A hunter in the sands, a guardian in the night, a companion in the heart. Its elegance was celebrated in poetry, art, and memory. #Sighthounds #NorthAfrica #DogCulture
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The Slough is more than a dog. It is a living fragment of North African history—graceful, resilient, and deeply tied to desert cultures.
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Interested in the origins of dogs? Read the #books in the "Origins" series (covers below): you'll be taken on a journey back in time, discovering the past of our four-legged friends, and our own.
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Behind its gaze lies the story of a successful zootechnical experiment: a #wolf outside, dog inside,” symbolizing the power of the encounter between nature and selection.
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The CWD also stands out for motivation, endurance, and traits such as maternal instinct and protectiveness, highlighted by #DNA and oxytocin studies.
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Genomic studies reveal its special blend: wolf traits preserved, yet behavior and social imprint closer to German Shepherds. Selective breeding created a “closed” population — dogs with wolf-like coats and strong personalities, but surprisingly canine social bonds.
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Thank you 👍
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I wrote about these two dogs in my #book 'Heaven can wait'. If you’re curious, you have a wide choice — a journey through science, history, and our bond with dogs in this and other my #books . 🐕✨#archaeology #DNA
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Another dog found at the same site, 10,200 years old, represents the deepest lineage of the A1a subgroup. Together, they reveal a continuous canine presence in Harbin between 13,000 and 10,000 years ago. Ancient migrations, humans and dogs moving as one. 🌍🐾
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Near today’s Harbin, in Heilongjiang province, dogs arrived from the Siberian steppe alongside humans. 🐕👣 Genetic studies show one dog was basal to the A2a and A2b subgroups — ancestors that later spread to North #America.
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If Frederick the Great anticipated modern ethology, today we can continue his curiosity by exploring the roots of our bond with dogs.
👉 Read Origins, Roma Canes Mundi, Migrations – Ancient Dogs of the Americas, and Heaven Can Wait. #books #Genetics #Archaeology #History
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Frederick the Great reminds us: true leadership is not only conquest, but curiosity and respect for nature. His legacy lives on in science, culture, and the quiet memory of his beloved dogs. 🐾
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
In the gardens of Sanssouci, the gravestones of Frederick’s Italian Greyhounds still whisper of his passion. A king who ruled with the sword, but also with the mind. Today, he would be a supporter of science, an environmentalist, and a tireless promoter of knowledge. #dogs #friendship
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Want to know where your dog really comes from? Forget the legends. Follow the bones, the genes, the laws. I write about ancient dogs — and the myths we love to believe. Start with ROMA CANES MUNDI. The truth has teeth. #book
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 AM
The Galgo didn’t run through Roman forums. It was shaped in medieval fields. If your breed isn’t mentioned in ancient texts, don’t worry: 98% of modern dogs are younger than 400 years. History is selective. Myth is generous.
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 AM
The Galgo appears in poetry and legislation only from the 9th century onward. Spanish lawmakers protected it. Not just a dog — a cultural asset. Everything before that? Speculation.
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Between the 8th and 10th centuries, Arab breeders crossed native Iberian dogs with Sloughis — and maybe Salukis. The result? A new type of hound. Not Roman. Not imported. Born in medieval Spain. The ancestor of the Galgo. #pets #arabs
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Thanks for raising this — it’s exactly the kind of dialogue ROMA CANES MUNDI hopes to inspire.
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM