People all over the world love to have dogs as pets. The United States and France have the most pet dogs. Almost one in three families in these countries own a dog. What countries have the least amount of pet dogs? Germany and Switzerland only have one dog for every ten families. They need more dogs!
Do dogs dream? If you look at your dog while it's sleeping, sometimes you'll see it's eyes move and twitch under it's eyelids. Humans do this too, and we definitely dream. So researchers are almost positive that dogs have dreams too. But guess what? No one knows what dogs dream about. Maybe the next time your dog wakes up from a dream, you can ask it!
Dogs are always smelling stuff. Wherever they go their snouts are sniffing. Why don't people do that? That's because a dog can smell a whole lot more than we can. Their sense of smell is about 1000 times better than a person's. Dogs can also hear alot better than us. They can hear high-pitched sounds (like some insects make), that we cannot even detect. Dogs need their good sense of smell and hearing because their eyesight is not as good as a human's. Do you know of any dogs that wear glasses?
Lassie was played by several male dogs, despite the female name, because male collies were thought to look better on camera. The main "actor" was named Pal.
There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
Dashchunds are the smallest breed of dog used for hunting. They are low to the ground, which allows them to enter and maneuver through tunnels easily.
The greatest number of dogs ever owned by one person were 5000 mastiffs owned by Kubla Khan.
An American Animal Hospital Association poll showed that 33 percent of dog owners admit that they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave messages on an answering machine while away.
Ancient Chinese royalty carried Pekingese dogs in the sleeves of their royal robes.
Almost every known dog except the Chow Chow and the Shar Pei has a pink tongue.
Though human noses have an impressive 5 million olfactory cells with which to smell, sheepdogs have 220 million, enabling them to smell 44 times better than man.
The theobromine in chocolate that stimulates the cardiac and nervous systems is too much for dogs, especially smaller pups. A chocolate bar is poisonous to dogs and can even be lethal.
Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating. They sweat through the pads of their feet.
It costs $6,400.00 to raise a medium-size dog to the age of eleven.
Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
The Dalmatian dog originate from Dalmatian coast of Croatia.
The Pug dog is thought to have gotten it's name from looking like the pug monkey.
In Egyptian times, the penalty for killing a greyhound was equivalent to that of killing a man.
More than 50 percent of dog and cat owners give their pets a human name, such as Molly, Sam or Max.
The common belief that dogs are colour blind is false. Dogs can see colour but it is not as vivid a colour scheme as we see. It is much like our vision at twilight.
Smartest dog: 1) Border Collie; 2) Poodle; 3) Golden Retriever
Dogs have 42 teeth, cats about 30.
