Funny dog facts
- 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.
- A dog’s normal body temperature is 100.5 to 102.5 degrees Fahrenheit.
- A female carries her young about 60 days before the puppies are born.
- According to the Guinness Book of
World Records, the smallest dog on record was a Yorkshire Terrier in
Great Britain who, at the age of 2, weighed just 4 ounces.
- The longest lived dog, according to
the Guinness Book of World Records, was an Australian Cattle Dog, named
Bluey, who lived to be 29.
- An adult dog has 42 teeth.
- It is a myth that dogs are color
blind. They can actually see in color, just not as vividly as humans. It
is akin to our vision at dusk.
- If never spayed or neutered, a female dog, her mate, and their puppies could produce over 66,000 dogs in 6 years!
- The only sweat glands a dog has are between the paw pads.
- In 1957, Laika became the first living being in space via an earth satellite
- The world’s smartest dogs are thought to be (1) the border collie, (2) the poodle, and (3) the golden retriever.
- Chocolate contains a substance known
as theobromine (similar to caffeine) which can kill dogs or at the very
least make them violently ill.
- Dogs’ sense of hearing is more than ten times more acute than a human’s
- More than 1 in 3 American families own a dog.
- Dogs don’t like rain because the sound is amplified and hurts their very sensitive ears.
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