The Irish Wolfhound ia the largest breed of dog reconized by the AKC. The Irisah Wolfhound weighs 105 lbs to 125 lbs and stands 30" to 35" tall.
Dogs regulate their body heat by panting.
Every minute dogs take 10 to 30 breaths.
Bassett Hounds are unable to swim due to their short legs.
Dogs sweat thru their paws.
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.
Puppies are born without teeth. At 3-4 Weeks of age, 28 teeth break thru the gumline, this allows puppies to eat solid food.
At 4-7 months of age the dogs baby teeth fall out and are replaced with 42 permanent adult teeth. Adult 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. Dogs have three eyelids, an upper a lower and a third one inside the other two that protects the eye from debris.
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 12, 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.
A dogs normal temperature is 100.2 - 102.8 Degrees Fahrenheit
Newfoundlands have webbed feet which allows them to swim.
There are no such dog as a Golden Labrador.
Cooked chicken and steak bones are dangerous as they may be a choking hazard and split causing injury to internal organs such as the intestines.
Cocker Spaniels ar the smallest member of the sporting dog group.
TV's Lassie was a male dog.
Some dogs have two coats, the hair you see and an undercoat that protects them in cold weather and from heat in the summer.
