| A dog's sense of smell is about 1000 times better than a person's. |
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| Alexander the Great is said to have founded and named a city Peritas, in
memory of his dog. |
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| All but two breeds of dogs have pink tongues. The Chow Chow and the Shar-pei, both have black tongues. |
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| Boxers are named for their playful habit of using their front paws in frolic. |
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| Chained dogs are 3 times more likely to bite than unchained dogs. |
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| Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not only sweat by salivating. They also sweat through the poors on their feet. |
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| Dalmatian puppies are born pure white, with their spots developing as the mature. |
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| Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year! |
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| Dogs can hear sounds that you cant! |
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| Dogs have 42 teeth, cats about 30. |
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| Dogs have far fewer taste buds than people ? probably fewer than 2,000 compared to human's 9,000. |
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| Dogs have lived with humans for over 14,000 years. Cats have lived with people for only 7,000 years. |
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| Dogs hear sounds up to four times the distance that humans are able to. |
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| Greyhounds have the best eyesight of any breed of dog. |
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| In the movie 'The Wizard Of Oz', Toto the dog's salary was $125 a week, while Judy Garland was $500 a week. |
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| It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland! |
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| Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints! |
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| Over one million stray dogs live in the New York City metropolitan area. |
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| President Franklin Roosevelt created a minor international incident when he claimed he sent a destroyer to the Aleutian Islands just to pick up his Scottish Terrier, Fala, who had been left behind. |
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| Saint Bernards were trained to rescue lost travelers in the Swiss Alps. |
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| The average city dog lives three years longer than the average country dog. |
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| The average dog can run about 19 mph. Greyhounds are the fastest dogs on
Earth and can run at speeds of 45 mph. |
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| The Basenji is the world's only bark-less dog. |
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| The best time for taking a puppy from its litter, psychologically and physically, is when it is 49 days old. |
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| The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court. |
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| The Canary Islands were not named after a bird called the canary. They were named after a breed of dogs! |
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| The Chow and the Chinese Shar-Pei are the only dogs that have black tongues. |
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| The earliest European images of dogs are found in cave paintings dating back 12,000 years ago in Spain. |
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| The first two years of a dog's life are equal to 24 human years. |
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| The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field. |
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| The most dogs ever owned by one person were 5,000 Mastiffs owned by Kubla Khan. |
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| The most popular dog breed in Canada, U.S., and Great Britain is the Labrador retriever. |
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| The most popular male dog names are Max and Jake. The most popular female dog names are Maggie and Molly. |
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| The smartest dogs are: 1) border collie; 2) poodle; 3) golden retriever. |
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| The U.S. has the highest dog population in the world. France has the second highest. |
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| There are 701 types of pure breed dogs. |
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| There are an estimated 400 million dogs in the world. |
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| There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S! |
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