Our Yellow Labrador  Retriever  "Baer" at age three.

 Dogs regulate their body heat by panting.

Bassett Hounds are unable to swim due to their short legs.

Dogs sweat thru their paws.

Humans and dogs are the  only animals with a prostate.

A puppies natural instinct is to chew on almost anything they can reach.

Dalmatians puppies are white when they are born.

The Saluki and the Pug are believed to be the oldest dog breeds. The Saluki is  thought to have been bred at about 3000 B. C.

The Chihuahua is believed to be the oldest dog native to North America.

All dogs are the descendants of wolves no matter the breed.

Dogs were  thought to have been colorblind. More recent research  says they can see color just that the colors are not as vivid as the  human  eye see's color.

Only Dogs and Humans have prostrates.

For the past seventeen years the most popular dog in the country has been the Labrador Retriever.

The Chow and the Shar Pei are  the only dogs with a black tongues. (blue-black).

Dogs can be right or left handed.

Dogs have 42 teeth.

It's important the puppies not be taken from their moms before eight weeks of age. During this time the mother teaches them many things about expected dog behavior. These are things that otherwise they will not know.

Dog are mentioned 10 times in the Bible.

The oldest dog lived to the age of 29.(An Australian Cattle Dog)

3 out of 5  households have a dog.

A puppies eyes do not open until they are 10-20 days old.

Puppies vision takes four weeks to fully develop.

Just like humans dogs eye move back and forth under their lids while they sleep

The Basenji is the only dog that can not bark.  It's origin is in Africa.

It is believed that there are about  70 million dogs in the United States.

The two country's with the most dogs are France and the United States.

The heaviest dog in the world weighs  323 lbs.

There are at least 700 purebred dog breeds.

Dogs can have a calming affect on people with anxiety, that are manic and those  with hypertension.

The average cost of owning a dog over it's lifetime is $14,000.

Some dogs can make different facial expressions. Bulldogs have ten. Other dogs have many more up to 90-100 facial expressions

A dogs sense of smell is unmatched by other animals in the animal kingdom.

Dogs "rotate" or swivel their ears in order to locate the source of a sound. They can locate this sound in 6/100ths of a second.

Dogs have twice as many muscles  to move their ears than people do.

Labrador Retrievers are one of the most common breed of dogs to become "service dogs".

The largest number of puppies born in a litter  to one dog is 24.

The Chinese Imperial Court used to put their Pekingese dog up their sleeves to keep them warm.

Great Danes and Irish Wolfhounds are the tallest dogs in the world.

It is believed that  dogs have been domesticated for at least 10, 000 years.

A Bassett Hound was used in the "Hush Puppies" commercials and advertising.

The expression "three dog night"  actually came form Eskimos.. It was a common practice for them to sleep with their dogs for warmth. They would sleep with three dogs in the bed on cold nights.

Newfoundlands have webbed feet which allows them to swim.

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