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Dog Facts
1. Humans began keeping dogs as pets about 30,000 years ago.
2. There are approximately 400 million dogs and hundreds of their breeds around the world.
3. At one time, dogs and wolves had the same ancestors; dogs are considered to be descendants of wolves.
Even today, 99.9 percent DNA of both the species is available.
4. The average life span of a dog is about 10 to 14 years.
5. An average dog is as intelligent as a 2-year-old child and can be taught to understand 150 words.
6. Apart from humans, dog is the only creature which recognizes human expressions by looking at the eyes.
7. The first animal to go to space was a dog named “Laika”.
8. Laika was sent into space by the Soviet Union Russia on 3 November 1957.
9. ‘Beware of the dog’ This warning was found written on the door of a house in a city of ancient Rome. (about 2761 years ago).
10. Small breed dogs have a longer lifespan than large breed dogs.
11. Dogs have 13 types of blood.
12. The smelling power of dogs is about 10,000 times more than that of humans.
13. The hearing capacity of dogs is 5 times more than that of humans.
14. The nose and paws of dogs are the only organs from where sweat comes out.
15. Dogs have very good vision in the dark and early morning.
16. It is against the law to keep a pet dog in Iceland.
17. In Oklahoma, if you try to tease a dog, you will be taken into custody.
18. A puppy has 28 teeth and an adult dog has 42 teeth.
19. 50% of dogs over the age of 10 die due to cancer.
20. Abraham Lincoln’s dog, named FIDO, was also assassinated.
21. A dog’s brain is only one-tenth the size of the human brain.
22. Hitler’s Nazi army tried to train dogs to speak and read, but failed.
23. Humans have 5 million scent glands, while dogs have 125-300 million depending on the breed.
24. A bitch keeps a baby in her womb for 62 days. When a child is born he is blind, deaf and toothless.
25. 30,000 dogs are killed every day in China for their meat and their bark.
26. There is a place in both the nostrils of the dog, where there are many smell sensitive cells, these are called ‘chemoreceptors’.
27. Dogs can also dream like humans.
28. A war was fought between Greece and Bulgaria just because a Greek dog crossed the border of Bulgaria.
29. With increasing age, the hearing ability of both humans and dogs starts decreasing.
30. If dogs eat chocolate, they can also die.
31. Small dog may see a dream once in 10 minutes but big dog sees a dream in 1 hour.
32. A dog is able to locate the source of a sound in 6/100th of a second.
33. American people are most fond of keeping dogs, there are about 70 million pet dogs in their homes.
34. A dog can make ten different sounds and can hear sounds with 35,000 vibrations/second, while humans can only hear sounds with 20,000 vibrations/second.
35. Dogs have three eyelids, one of which is to keep their eyes moist and protected.
36. If the Earth’s magnetic field is permanent, then dogs urinate while standing in the north-south direction.
37. After the body temperature increases or while panting, the hearing ability of the dog reduces by 40%.
38. German Shepherd dog has 22 crore smelling cells whereas humans have only 50 lakh cells.
39. In India, Whistling Dog is called gold dog.
Apart from India, this dog is found throughout South Asia and South East Asia, in English this dog is also called Dhol.
40. Dogs have more muscles in both their ears than humans, where humans have 6 muscles in their ears, whereas dogs have 18 or more muscles in their ears.
41. Greenhound breed dog starts running at a speed of 45 miles per hour within a few minutes.
42. Dogs normally have 18 nails, with many dogs having as many as 20.
43. According to Brady Barr of National Geographic, the bite force of a dog is 320 pounds per square inch.
44. During the Second World War, trained dogs of the Soviet Union used to attack German tanks like suicide bombers, carrying gunpowder on their backs.
45. Dogs’ urine contains so much acid that it can melt even metal.
46. It is estimated that 21% of dogs snore in their sleep.
47. The average temperature of dogs is 100.2-102.8 degrees Fahrenheit.
48. The shoulders of dogs are separate from their body structure, hence the dog is able to run fast.
49. The same “Love Hormone” called Oxytocin is released by humans and dogs. Due to this hormone, both humans and dogs have strong bonds with their friends.
50. Like humans, dogs also struggle with the problem of obesity.
51. The reproductive period in dogs is about 9 weeks.
52. The name of the oldest living dog in the world is “Maggie”, this dog was born in Australia and lived for 29 years and 5 months.
53. On an average, a bitch can give birth to 4 to 6 babies at a time.
54. Dogs are omnivores.
55. According to Cornell University, dogs were domesticated between 9000 and 34000 years ago.
56. The oldest dog breed in the world is the Saluki, which originated in Egypt in 321 BC.
57. The smallest breed of dogs is Chi hua hua, its length is 6 inches.
58. The heaviest breed of dog is Mastiff, its weight is 200 pounds.
59. The fastest running dog breed in the world is the Greyhound, which runs at a speed of 44 miles per hour.
60. All dog breeds have pink tongues, but two Chinese dog breeds, the Sher-Pei and the Chow Chow, have black tongues.
61. Alaskan Malamute dogs can tolerate temperatures of -70 degrees.
62. Basenji dogs do not bark.
63. The Norwegian Lundehund breed of dog has 6 toes on each foot.
64. The longest ears are of the Bloodhound breed of dog, the length of its ears is 13 inches.
65. Dogs are mentioned more than 35 times in the Holy Bible.
66. Dogs of the Border Collie breed named Jean were shown in films for the first time.
67. In 1910, this dog starred in the first silent movie, Jean Goes Foraging.
68. Hollywood’s first dog star was a dog named Rin Tin Tin, who was a German Shepherd dog.
69. The first dog to be inducted into the Animal Hall of Fame was “Lassie”.
70. It is illegal for dogs to bark after 6:00 pm in Little Rock, Arkansas.
71. A Great Dane German dog once defused a bomb by urinating.
72. According to the University of Vienna, a dog is liked more by men than by women.
73. In 1960, two dogs named Belka and Strelka were sent into space and were successfully brought back.
74. The most expensive dog in the world is the Tibetan Mastiff, which was sold for $2 million in 2014.
75. The United States has the largest number of dogs in the world, where the number of dogs is 76 million. After that comes Brazil and China.
76. The most number of dogs kept by a single person was Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire who kept 5000 Mastiff dogs at one time.
77. Dog belongs to the species of wolf, fox and jackal. Their ancestors were the same.
78. A dog sweats only on its paws and nose.
79. The major breeds of dogs are German Shepherd, Bull Dog, Labrador, Pug.
80. The world’s smallest dog, named Yorkshire, weighed about 4 ounces.
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