What is a dog's habitat?

Wild dogs do not have permanent dens like other animals. While some animals create dens to live in year-round, wild female dogs tend to only create dens for sheltering puppies after giving birth. Once the puppies are around 12 weeks old, the den is no longer needed. read more

Whether the dog lives in a forest, prairie, desert, mountain or coastal habitat, he's got to eat. His keen sense of smell finds prey, and he's got to be able to catch it, or he'll starve. Domestication may have come about as some wolves shifted from fending for themselves to living near humans and foraging in their garbage -- and eventually being fed. read more

The natural habitat of the domestic dog is with humans in human environments. Wherever we go and wherever we live, the domestic dog must survive by their wits and by those things that they learn as part of their human pack. Dogs have been the companions of humans before the beginning of recorded history. read more