Source: Live Science

Apparently, scientists are beginning to identify gene regions that effect tameness, or an animal's willingness to tolerate and seek out human contact.

I wonder if this research could be used to help correct some breeds that have had some aggression bred into them. If you can identify tameness through genetic markers, than can genetic markers help you find out which will tolerate humans and other animals just as well? Genes can't erase a lifetime of bad treatment, but genetic testing may help future generations get a fighting chance.

Of course, training is a lot of what a dog is, and I'm not discounting that, but we all know from all our corgi's wildly different personalities that temperment is something they're born with too. Every puppy is as unique as us.

I can't imagine giving a puppy a genetic test on how sweet it is and it coming up negative, though! My puppy is the sweetest thing on eart and I KNOW it.