I am fairly certain that the first domesticated animals were enslaved archaic humans, not dogs.
Dogs came second, maybe third.
The best example to give, from recorded history, of large scale population enslavement, may be the helots, enslaved by the Spartans.
The Egyptians, and other Middle Eastern Civilizations, were known also in recorded history to rely extensively on slaves.
It is obvious that by that time, smaller scale human enslavement had had a very very long prehistory in many places all over the world.
The development of archaic human enslavement was almost certainly much more important, and probably antedated, the much more highly liberally touted development of agriculture, which in all probability relied from its very beginnings primarily in many places on enslaved labor.
It certainly did so, in early recorded history, among the Spartans, in the Peloponnese.
Other Greeks including the Athenians had slaves, but they were managed by individual landowner masters, unlike the more plantation type system the Spartans seem to have developed with the Helot population.
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