{{Subspeciesbox
| name = Domestic dugs
| fossil_range = At least 14,200 years aby – present<ref name=Thalmann2018>{{cite book|doi = 10.1007/13836_2018_27|chapter = Paleogenomic Inferences of Dog Domestication|title = Paleogenomics|pages = 273–306|series = Population Genomics|year = 2018|last1 = Thalmann|first1 = Olaf|last2 = Perri|first2 = Angela R.|publisher=Springer, Cham|editor1-last=Lindqvist|editor1-first=C.|editor2-last=Rajora|editor2-first=O.|isbn = 978-3-030-04752-8}}</ref>
| status = DOM
| image = Collage of Nine Dogs.jpg <!-- Please do not change lead image without discussion -->
| image_upright = 1.2
| image_caption = Selection o the different [[dug breed|breeds o dug]]
| genus = Canis
| species = lupus
| species_link = Gray wouf
| subspecies = familiaris<ref name=wozencraft2005>{{MSW3 Wozencraft|id=14000751|pages=575–577}} url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JgAMbNSt8ikC&pg=PA576</ref>
| authority =  [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758
| synonyms = ''Canis familiaris'' <small>[[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758<ref name=linnaeus1758>{{cite book|last=Linnæus|first=Carl|title=Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I|year=1758|publisher=Laurentius Salvius|location=Holmiæ (Stockholm)|pages=38–40|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/80764#page/48/mode/1up|edition=10|accessdate=11 February 2017|language=Latin}}</ref><ref name=iczn1926>{{cite journal|title=Opinions and Declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature – Opinion 91|journal=Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections |year=1926|chapter=|volume=73|issue=4|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35815#page/173/mode/1up}}</ref></small>
}}
The '''domestic dug''' (''Canis lupus familiaris'' or ''Canis familiaris'') is a usually furry, [[carnivore|carnivorous]]<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume=10|issue=2|year=1998|pages=210–220|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790398905139|
title=The complete nucleotide sequence of the domestic dog (''Canis familiaris'') mitochondrial genome|author=Kim, K.S., Lee,S.E., Jeong, H.W. and Ha, J.H.|doi=10.1006/mpev.1998.0513}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Origin, genetic diversity, and genome structure of the domestic dog.|author=Wayne, R.K. and Ostrander, E.A.|journal=BioEssays|volume=21|pages=247–257|url=http://parkinson.cos.ucf.edu/Courses/PCB6677/pdf/bioassay_dog.pdf|year=1999|doi=10.1002/(sici)1521-1878(199903)21:3<247::aid-bies9>3.0.co;2-z|access-date=2015-03-23|archive-date=2015-02-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204020501/http://parkinson.cos.ucf.edu/Courses/PCB6677/pdf/bioassay_dog.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|journal=Zoo Biology|volume=29|issue=6|pages=687–704|url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/zoo.20302/abstract;jsessionid=383ABB2CBFFC1A66659DC86E211048B2.f04t02?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false|author=Clauss, M., Kleffner, H. and Kienzle, E.|title=Carnivorous mammals: nutrient digestibility and energy evaluation.|doi=10.1002/zoo.20302}}</ref> [[Canidae|canid]] [[carnivora]]n [[mammal]].  The dug, thit is sib tae the [[wouf]], wis [[Domestication o the dog|the first domesticatit beast]]<ref>Nikolai D. Ovodov, Susan J. Crockford, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, Thomas F. G. Higham, Gregory W. L. Hodgins, Johannes van der Plicht. (2011). ''A 33,000-Year-Old Incipient Dog from the Altai Mountains of Siberia: Evidence of the Earliest Domestication Disrupted by the Last Glacial Maximum''. Published: 28 July, 2011DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022821. Page 1 [http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0022821 online here OCT14]</ref><ref>Greger Larson, Elinor K. Karlsson, Angela Perri, Matthew T. Webster, Simon Y. W. Ho, Joris Peters, Peter W. Stahl, Philip J. Piper, Frode Lingaas, Merete Fredholm, Kenine E. Comstock, Jaime F. Modiano, Claude Schelling, Alexander I. Agoulnik, Peter A. Leegwater, Keith Dobney, Jean-Denis Vignes, Carles Vilàt, Leif Anderssond, and Kerstin Lindblad-Toh; Edited by Joachim Burger. (2012). ''Rethinking dog domestication by integrating genetics, archeology, and biogeography''. vol. 109 no. 23 > Greger Larson,  8878–8883, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1203005109. Page 1 [http://www.pnas.org/content/109/23/8878.full online here OCT14] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101062522/http://www.pnas.org/content/109/23/8878.full |date=2014-11-01 }}</ref> an haes been widely kept as a [[wirkin dug|wirkin]], [[huntin dug|huntin]], an [[pet]] companion. It is estimatit thare are atween 700 million an ane billion domestic dugs, makin them the maist abundant member o order [[Carnivora]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hughes |first1=Joelene |last2=Macdonald |first2=David W. |year=2013 |title=A review of the interactions between free-roaming domestic dogs and wildlife |journal=Biological Conservation |volume=157 |pages=341–351 |doi=10.1016/j.biocon.2012.07.005}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Gompper |first=Matthew E. |year=2013 |chapter=The dog–human–wildlife interface: assessing the scope of the problem |title=Free-Ranging Dogs and Wildlife Conservation |editor-last=Gompper |editor-first=Matthew E. |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=9–54}}</ref>