Question: when did we start keeping dogs as pets

title: Origin of the domestic dog
text: 14,200 Bonn - Oberkassel , Germany The `` Bonn - Oberkassel dog '' . Undisputed dog skeleton buried with a man and woman . All three skeletal remains were found sprayed with red hematite powder . The consensus is that a dog was buried along with two humans . Analysis of mDNA indicates that this dog was a direct ancestor of modern dogs .