If you can ever count on someone, that would be your own pet especially a dog!! Dogs are our best friends and can be proved a loyal companion. You’ll be amazed knowing a few surprising Dog facts in my post. As a dog owner you may or may not know these.
You’ll surely be surprised with DOG FACTS :
- Like we humans have unique fingerprints, dogs have unique noseprints.
- Dogs usually get a lot of love from their owner, but you will be surprised to know that In United States, 45% of owners share their bed with their dog(s).
- Puppies are deaf when they are born. As they get older, they are four times more likely to hear than humans.
- Dogs do not sweat.
- One study claims that dogs often get jealous when their owner shows affection towards other animals, just like humans, Haha…
- Dogs can smell their owner’s feelings well. Dogs have a sense of smell about 100,000 times better than their owner.
- When petting a dog, the owner’s blood pressure goes down, and so does the dog’s blood pressure.
- There are over 75 million pet dogs in the United States, which is higher than all other countries in the whole world.
- Dogs are trained to detect cancer and other diseases in humans. Dogs can smell human cancer cells through the smell of breath.
- Dogs live an average of 10 to 14 years.
- Dogs are omnivorous. They eat both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food.
- Puppies have 28 teeth, and adult dogs have 42 teeth.
- You may be surprised to learn that obesity is a health problem not only in humans but also in dogs.
- Dogs can be trained to solve simple maths problems.
- The average body temperature of dogs is 101.2 degrees.
- Dogs have long toenails, so they have many toe deformities.
- Dogs can learn more than 1000 words.
- Puppies can sleep as much as 18 to 20 hours a day during their body’s rapid development phase.
- Even dogs sometimes smile with open hearts like humans, and we can see their laughter.
- Dogs can usually see well in the morning and evening.
- Many people like to keep a puppy, but you may not know how old a puppy should be when you bring it home. The puppy should be brought home when it is 8 to 12 weeks old.
- In the US, more than one in three families own a dog.
- Barking is the quality of a dog, but Basenji is the only dog that does not bark.
- Dogs are descendants of wolves.
- If dogs are trained with little love and patience, they can learn to salute, walk backward, and bow.
- In ancient times people in China kept dogs warm by putting them in their sleeves.
- Puppies gain up to half their body weight within four to five months after birth. It takes them about a year or more to gain the remaining half of their weight.
- When puppies get bored, they also get cranky like small children.
- Puppies like to play games such as hide and seek. If the owner goes into hiding and calls the puppy by his name, the puppy tries to find the owner.