Yes, that’s one of them in a famous painting by Jean Louis Gerome Ferris.
The Pilgrims had two that we know of.
They must have left their mastiff indoors when company came.
And the company probably left their dogs at home.
A serious note
Now, Family Canidae actually evolved in North America and then spread widely across the world even before they hooked up with us.
But according to Wikipedia, domesticated wolves (=dogs) were introduced to the New World during the Columbian exchange.
That was one of the positives.
Smallpox was one of the negatives. Its effect on indigenous people in the Americas was apocalyptical.
This might be why Europeans were able to get established in the Northeast.
As I understand it, though I don’t know if it has been confirmed, Vikings had tried to colonize the coast a little farther north, a few centuries earlier, and had been driven off.
Vikings!
Those Puritan settlers were hardy, but they might not have stood much of a chance if they had faced the same numbers of natives that the Vikings did.
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Yes, the Vikings had dogs but this did not happen, unfortunately. (Image: Shutterstock Gen AI)
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