Today, mostly dogs are used to hunt. However, in Mideval Europe, hawks and falcons were used to hunt rabbits and other small game. Hawks and falcons are still used to hunt today. In Medeval Times, ferrets also hunted rabbits. Cheetahs hunted for Ancient Africans and Assyrians. Ancient Chinese fishermen trained cormorants to fish. They still do today. Dogs, the first domestic animals, over 15,000 years ago, were trained to hunt.