The U.S. has the highest dog population in the world. France has the second highest.
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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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Boxers are named for their playful habit of using their front paws in frolic.
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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 Canary Islands were not named after a bird called the canary. They were named after a breed of dogs!
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It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
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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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Saint Bernards were trained to rescue lost travelers in the Swiss Alps.
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Dogs have 42 teeth, cats about 30.
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Over one million stray dogs live in the New York City metropolitan area.
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Dalmatian puppies are born pure white, with their spots developing as the mature.
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Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
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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 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 most dogs ever owned by one person were 5,000 Mastiffs owned by Kubla Khan.
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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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Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
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There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
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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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The first two years of a dog's life are equal to 24 human years.
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The Chow and the Chinese Shar-Pei are the only dogs that have black tongues.
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The average city dog lives three years longer than the average country dog.
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A dog's sense of smell is about 1000 times better than a person's.
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Chained dogs are 3 times more likely to bite than unchained dogs.
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There are an estimated 400 million dogs in the world.
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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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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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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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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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Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
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The Basenji is the world's only bark-less dog.
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The smartest dogs are: 1) border collie; 2) poodle; 3) golden retriever.
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There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
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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 have far fewer taste buds than people ? probably fewer than 2,000 compared to human's 9,000.
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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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