why are shoes called dogs?
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in the cold winters of the 5th century a.d., the native Aztecs in what is now Peru, used dog skins as a type of moccasin that was the same texture as leather when it was frozen... soon after the Spanish inquisition, the Spaniards adopted the slang term of "dogs" as shoes and brought it to the south western states of the U.S. where it is still in use today. Going along with this, The Spanish began calling people they "looked down upon" "dog", which  later derived into the slang term. just like how the frowned upon word "niggerr" has become a slang term meaning friend.
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*Slipping on in* The dog is a mammal in the order Carnivora. Dogs were first domesticated from wolves at least 17,000 years ago, but perhaps as early as 150,000 years ago based upon recent genetic fossil and DNA evidence though there is doubt about the accuracy of this mitochondrial DNA evidence. In this time, the dog has developed into hundreds of breeds with a great degree of variation.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog\n\nThere is very little genetic difference between any dog and any wolf, coyote, or jackal, etc., so little, in fact, that genetic tests cannot tell how much wolf is in deliberately bred wolf-dogs. The domesticated canines and their wild cousins CAN interbreed.\n\nThe biggest difference is that dogs are domesticated, and wolves are wild animals. What that means is that dogs can be good pets and companions, while wolves are still wild and not suited to living with people. Because they are related, there are a lot of similarities, but wolves represent one end of the spectrum and domestic dogs the other.\n\nWolves are generally bigger and considerably more intelligent than dogs. They are certainly more aware of their environment than dogs, and respond to other animals and humans differently. Wolves don't bond with humans readily the way dogs will. Wolves have a complex pack structure that dogs don't, even when they go feral and pack up. Wolves are constantly testing each other's dominance, while dogs generally accept whatever established hierarchy they live in.\n\nWolves are active and able hunters, while many dog breeds have lost that talent. Wolves are stronger than dogs. Wolves pace, dogs trot. Dogs can be trained, wolves can't (with possible rare exceptions on both sides). In a wolf pack, only the alphas lift their legs to pee (even the alpha female will do this, though not necessarily all the time), and other pack members squat. The alphas will also prevent any other pack members from breeding, and when the pups are born, the whole pack helps raise them. Wolves mate for life (except rare occasions), dogs do not. Dogs go into heat twice a year, wolves only once a year.\n\nWolves are different from dogs by their skull's characteristics, especially the orbital angle, which is the angle between the top of the skull and the side of the skull at the eye socket. This angle is larger (53 degrees or more) in dogs and smaller (45 degrees or less) in wolves. Wolves also have a third larger brain than dogs. Dogs' teeth are smaller, their muzzle is shorter and broader, and their foreheads are broader. Dog's ears are generally more pointed and longer, while wolves' are shorter, wider, and more rounded. Wolves' feet are much larger and more splayed than dogs'. Wolves have a narrower chest and longer, thinner legs. Dogs lack the scent glands, called precaudal glands, underneath the base of the tail.\n\nFor even the most wolf-like dogs, there is a distinct difference in coloration. The colors are much more contrasted and not well-blended on the dog, whereas the wolf's coloration is not contrasted as much and well blended to produce many shades and colors.\n\nWolves are fascinating creatures but they aren't just big dogs. While they are the same genus as dogs (canis) they are a different species: the wolf is canis lupus, the dog is canis familiaris.\nhttp://www.answerbag.com/q_view.php/39319\nhttp://www.lioncrusher.com/animal.asp?animal=35&page=4
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A dog tag is also the colloquial name for the identification tags worn by military personnel, especially in the United States.The purchasing of unofficial identification tags goes back to the Civil War.  In the Navy, official identification tags, nicknamed "dog tags," go back to World War I. The "Dog Tag" originated around 1861, the time of the Civil War. American soldiers made them themselves out of a small piece of wood, to ensure that their identities would be known should they die on the battlefield. Some troops fashioned their own custom made personalized "ID" (identification) tags , boring a hole in one end so that they could be worn on a string around the neck.\n\n\nAt times the carnage was so great and bodies were so badly disfigured that the Soldier's could not be identified.\n\n\nThe Army Regulations of 1913 made identification tags mandatory, and by 1917, all combat soldiers wore aluminum discs on chains around their necks. By World War II, the circular disc was replaced by the oblong shape familiar to us today, generally referred to as "dog tags."
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Because the shoe is on the other foot.
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They are called Land Rollers.\n\nhttp://www.landroller.com/\n\nHope this helps.\n\nP.S How cool does Ceasar Look walking all those dogs like that. Very cool.
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To keep your shoes on.
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Leather is probably healthier for you.  Synthetic shoes are sold because they're healthier on the wallet and, for vegetarians, on the animal kingdom.\n\nBut in terms of foot health, leather has it all over synthetics.  (With, perhaps, the exception of winter/rain boots, where plastics may be better able to keep water/wetness/snow away from the feet.)
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Approx. 4000 B.C. \nEarliest depictions of shoes (flexible leather pieces held in place with lacings) in ancient Egyptian murals on tombs and temples. \n  \nApprox. 200 B.C. \nPlatform sandals called kothorni, with high wood or cork soles, become popular among Roman tragic actors. \n  \nApprox. 1000 A.D. \nAt Saxon weddings, father of the bride customarily presents the groom with one of the bride's shoes, symbolizing transfer of his authority over her. The bride's shoe is thrown to the bridesmaids; the one who catches it will be next to marry. \n  \n1154-1189 \nKing Henry II of England popularizes shoes with narrow, pointed toes. Legend says they hid his deformed toes. \n  \n1189-1199 \nKnights of Richard the Lionhearted begin to wear sollerets, downward-curving pointed toes, to keep their feet from slipping out of stirrups. \n  \n1215 \nA law passed in Paris bans university professors from wearing shoes with long, pointed toes. However, shoe toes, a symbol of rank, grow longer and pointier during the next two centuries, culminating by about 1382 in the spiky-toed cracowe. Kings and princes sometimes wore toes 30 inches long. \n  \n1386 \nKnights fighting in the Battle of Sempach in Switzerland are forced to amputate their shoes' long toes after dismounting before they can advance on foot. \n  \nApprox. 1500 \nShoes begin to be made in two pieces, with a flexible upper attached to a heavier, stiffer sole. This leads to the introduction of the heel, devised as a better way of keeping a rider's foot in the stirrup. Heeled boots for men quickly become fashionable. \n  \n1509-1547. \nHenry VIII of England favors wide-toed shoes, sometimes 12 inches across, which had to be stuffed to keep them on his feet. \n  \n1533 \nShort-statured Italian bride Catherine d'Medici, married at 14 to the Duke of Orleans, wears shoes with two-inch heels to exaggerate her height. The high heel may have been invented by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). \n  \n1553-1558 \nMary Tudor ("Bloody Mary"), another vertically challenged monarch, wears heels as high as possible. From this period until the early 19th century, high heels are frequently in vogue for both sexes. \n  \nMid-1500s \nAn extreme shoe style called chopines, popular among women in Italy, Spain and France, had pedestals of cork or wood as tall as 24 inches. A Venetian lady wearing chopines needed two servants to help her in and out of a gondola. \n  \n1628 \nPilgrims arrive in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. A law is passed prohibiting "excess in bootes." \n  \n1660 \nFrench shoemaker Nicholas Lestage, so clever at his trade that some accuse him of sorcery, becomes shoemaker to Louis XIV. The heels of Louis's shoes, some decorated with miniature battle scenes, are as tall as five inches. High "Louis" heels are also fashionable for ladies. \n  \n1745 \nMadame de Pompadour, tiny-footed favorite of Louis XV, popularizes high, narrow "Pompadour" heels. Ladies tape their feet to reduce their apparent size and faint at court. \n  \n1793 \nMarie Antoinette ascends the scaffold to be executed wearing two-inch heels. However, in the wake of the French Revolution heels become lower than at any time in the 18th century. \n  \n1794 \nQuincy Reed opens America's first retail shoe store in Boston. Around this period, Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849) invents machines for cutting soles and riveting them to uppers. \n  \nEarly 1800s \nFlat shoes and Grecian-style sandals become popular. \n  \nApprox. 1865 \nThe "sneaker" or plimsoll, a canvas-topped, rubber-soled shoe, is invented for badminton and tennis. Ladies' heel heights vary but stay below two inches during the rest of the century. \n  \n1904 \nThe ladies' "pump" or court shoe, a British invention, reaches America. Shoe stores begin to stock shoes with a range of widths around now. \n  \nApprox. 1955 \nTall "stiletto" heels for women's shoes, inv
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What an odd question. They come from variations of a dog-like species that evolved. What exactly are you asking?
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There is a breed of dog called an Akita.  Maybe her akita's name is Evita.  If not that, I have no idea what you are talking about.
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Because smaller versions of anything makes a girl think (at least on some level) that it is a "baby" version.  Most girls love babies.  Puppies are cuter than dogs.  Miniature dogs get to have "puppy" status their whole life.  Fact is the smaller something is, the more a girl wants to take care of it.\n\nConcerning cute small stones... that's just weird.
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The Adidas shoe which has a microchip in it.\n\nIt is priced a bit high for a shoe because it changes its cushioning for different uses.
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They are shoes to keep the bottoms of your feet from being injured while walking on the sand & into the water.  If they come off, they float to the surface of the water, where they can be retrieved & the wearer can put them back on.
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sh*t eaters\nbut really,you don't get a breed name\nyou just have part bulldog, part shihtzu
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Because these neighborhoods have very LARGE birds. And these birds eat humans in the middle of the night. They can digest everything but the shoes so when they are perching on those phone lines and they have to go pooh, out comes the white stuff... and the shoes.\nAnd they hang there because the laces get knotted up in their digestive tracts.
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If the pig skin is perfectly tanned then it is permissible for Muslims to wear shoes made of it. \n\nhttp://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaE&cid=1119503549320\n\nGenerally, it is recommended to avoid such things, if better alternatives found.
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not so sure of the origin and history behind the phrase but if you find it ranining cat's and dogs be careful not to step in a poodle... i looked it up for you and yu can find the answer at the link below