Fun Dog Facts:
The oldest reliable age recorded for a dog is 29 years, 5 months for a Queensland 'heeler' called Bluey in Victoria, Australia.
A one-year-old dog is physically as mature as a 15 year-old human.
Dogs have twice as many muscles for moving their ears as people.
The normal body temperature for a dog is 101.2 degrees Fahrenheit.
Dogs
are able to see much better in dim light than humans are, because of
the tapetum lucidum, a light-reflecting layer behind the retina. It
functions like a mirror and accounts for the strange shine or glow in a
dog's eyes at night.
The basenji, an African wolf dog, is the only dog that cannot bark.
A dog's heart beats between 70 and 120 times a minute, compared with a human heart which beats 70 to 80 times a minute.
Dogs' only sweat glands are between their paw pads (hence they get in the water to cool down).
Greyhounds are the fastest dogs on earth, with speeds of up to 45 miles per hour.
Obesity is the #1 health problem among dogs.
There are 703 breeds of purebred dogs.
A dog's smell is more than 100,000 times stronger than that of a human's.
Chocolate
contains a substance known as theobromine (similar to caffeine) which
can kill dogs or at the very least make them violently ill.
The Wizard of Oz's Toto was played by a female Cairn Terrier named Terry.
All dogs are identical in anatomy - 321 bones and 42 permanent teeth.
Dogs' sense of hearing is more than ten times more acute than a human's.
Dalmatian puppies are born completely white.
Dog's heart is similar to a human's - it has four chambers.
Oldest breed in the world is a Saluki - royal dog of Egypt and recognized as far back as 329 B.C.
Oldest American dog breed is the American Foxhound. They date back to 1650.
Newfoundland's are great swimmers and divers because they have web feet.
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