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Toto from the Wizard of Oz was a Female Cairn Terrier named Terry.
The first dog to be trained to be a seeing eye dog was a Buddy a German shepherd.
Dogs Have 42 Permanent teeth and 28 Baby teeth.
A healthy dog should have 70-120 heart beats per minute 50% faster than the average human heartbeat of 80 times per minute.
Dogs sweat through the pads of there feet.
All dogs should have around 321 bones.
The first living thing to go into space was a dog named Laika but died on the route due to stress.
Two dogs Belka and Strelka were the first animals to survive an orbital flight in space on Russian Shuttle Sputnik 5. They came back happy and healthy.
Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible, but domestic cats are not mentioned at all.The Border Terrier Is known to have the longest lifespan of any pedigreed breed.
Wearing sunglasses around your dog increases the chance of being bitten. When wearing sunglasses it looks like your looking directly at them in the canine world that is threatening.
The average cost of owning a dog is $25,300 per dog over its lifetime. This includes vet bills, food, and toys.
If you never spayed or neutered your dog or any dog their puppies could product over 66,000 dogs in 6 years.
Chihuahuas like human babies are born with a soft spot on their skull witch closes in time.
The U.S has the largest dog population. France has the second.
An average city dog lives 3 years longer than a country dog.
15 People die in the U.S. every year because of dog bites.
In 2002 alone, more people in the U.S. were killed by dogs than by sharks in the past 100 years.
Gidget is the name of the Taco Bell dog.
Newfoundlands are great swimmers because of their webbed feet.
Basset hounds can't swim.
The fastest dogs on earth are greyhounds running up to 45 MPH.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the side of the Cracker Jack box.
Three dogs survived the sinking of the Titanic, a Newfoundland, a Pomeranian, and a Pekingese.
The Labrador Retriever is the #1 favorite breed in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.
Obesity is the number one health problem in dogs.
A dogs nose print is as unique as a human fingerprint and can be used to identify a dog.
70% of people sign their pet’s name on greeting and holiday cards.
58% put pets in family and holiday portraits.
There are only 350 Cisky Terriers in the world – perhaps the rarest breed.
The phrase “raining cats and dogs” originated in 17th century England when it is believed that many cats and dogs drowned during heavy periods of rain.
Dogs have no sense of time.
Humans have kept dogs as cats for over 12,000 years.
The largest breed of dog is the Irish Wolfhound.
The world’s smallest dog breed is the Chihuahua.
Former President Lyndon Johnson howled with his favorite dog, Yuki, a stray rescued by his daughter, Luci, at a Texas gas station. He also had two Beagles named Him and Her.
The St. Bernard is the heaviest dog breed.
Only dogs and humans have prostates.
But dogs do not have an appendix.
Every dog on earth likely descended from a species knows as the Tomarctus – a creature that roamed the earth over 15 million years ago.
The oldest breed of dog is likely the Saluki optionally trained by Egyptians to track game.
An African wolf dog known as the Basenji is the only dog in the world that can't bark.
There are 703 purebred dogs.
Dachshunds were originally bred for fighting badgers.
A dog’s smell is more than 100,000 times stronger than that of a human’s which they need because their eyesight is not as keen as a human’s.
Zorba, an English Mastiff, is the heaviest dog on record, weighing 343 lbs at the age of 8 in 1989.
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 Lundehund breed has 6 toes and can close its ears.
Dogs judge objects first by their movement, then by their brightness, and lastly by their shape.
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.
George Washington had thirty six dogs they were all foxhounds one was with one named Sweetlips.
Smaller breeds mature faster than larger breeds.
Female dogs are only ready to mate “in heat” twice a year for a total of roughly 20 days.
Puppies sleep 90% of the day there first few weeks.
Rin Tin Tin was the first Hollywood dog star and he really signed his movie contracts all 22 of them with a paw print.
Up until the late 1800’s, Collies were known as Scottish Sheepdogs.
Dogs have two times as many muscles to move their ears as people.
An elderly woman was saved by her 12 pound Yorkshire Terrier named Oliver it fought off an 80 pound Akita and survived with only 9 stitches.
All dogs direct descendants of wolves.
The most successful mountain rescue dog ever was a St Bernard, named Barry, who lived during the early 1800's and saved 40 lives.
The earliest dog fossil dates back to nearly 10,000 B.C.
John F. Kennedy's terrier, Charlie, sired 4 puppies with Laika's daughter, Pushinka.
Bloodhounds are prized for their ability to single out and identify a number of scents simultaneously.
Dalmatian's are born all white.
The Ancient Chinese carried Pekingese puppies in the sleeves of their robes.
The oldest dog on record – a Queensland Heeler named Bluey it was 29 years, 5 months old.
Teddy Roosevelt's pit bull, Pete, once ripped off a French ambassador's pants at a White House event.
Franklin D. Roosevelt once spent $15,000 to have a destroyer return to the Aleutian Islands and retrieve his Scottie, Fala, who had been accidentally left behind.
More than 5,000,000 puppies are born in the U.S. every year.
More than 1in 3 American families own a dog.
Average body temperature for a dog is 101.2 degrees.
A German Shepherd guide dog, named Orient, led her blind hiker the entire 2100 mile Appalachian Trail.
The Chihuahua was named after the state in Mexico where they were discovered.
After birth, puppies’ eyes do not fully open until they’re about 12 days old.
Their vision is not fully developed until after the 1st month
The great Dane breed originates from Germany.
The top five favorite breeds of dogs in the US are Labrador Retriever, Golden Retriever, German Shepherd, Beagle, and Dachshund.
Female dogs bite more often than male dogs.
DOG QUOTES
"Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you''? But when you take him in a car, he sticks his head out the window. Steve Bluestone
"Dogs come when they are called. Cats take a message and get back to you". Mary Bly
"Researches have discovered that dogs can comprehend a vocabulary of 2,000 words, whereas cats can only comprehend 25 to 50. No one ever asks how many words the Researchers can comprehend."Unknown Dog Quote
"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." Mark Twain Dog Quote
"Man is a dog's idea of what God should be." Dog Quote by Holbrook Jackson
"Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more." Qoutation by Agatha Christie
"The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too." Samuel Butler
''Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life" Dog Qoute by W H Auden
"Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.'' Clarence Day
"A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself." Josh Billings
"Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot" Quotation by Konrad Lorenz
"Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
George Eliot
"A dog's best friend is his illiteracy." Dog Quote by Ogden Nash
"If
you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." Mark Twain
"An
earthly dog of the carriage breed; Who, having failed of the modern
speed, Now asked asylum and I was stirred To be the one so dog
preferred" Dog Quote by Robert Frost
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog." Mark Twain
"The reason dogs have so many friends is because they wag their tails instead of their tongues." Unknown
"There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog."
Konrad Z. Lorenz
"Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage." Agnes Repplier
"Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you like an equal."Winston Churchill
"The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic." Dog Quotation by Henry Ward Beecher
"If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do people."Karel Caprek
"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."Quote by Aldous Huxley
"The more I see of the representatives of the people the more I admire my dogs." Alphonse de Lamartine
"Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant." Unknown
"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies." Dog Quote by Gene Hill
"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx
"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."Aldous Huxley
"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." Robert Benchley
"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives."Quotation by Sue Murphy
"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves." August Strindberg
"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons." Dog Quote by James Thurber
"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."Ann Landers
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."Dog Qoutation by Robert A. Heinlein
"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." Ben Williams
"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem." Dog Quote by Edward Abbey
"Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it." Unknown
"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does." Christopher Morley
"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person." Andrew A. Rooney
"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's" Mark Twain
"The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog" Ambrose Bierce
"A hungry dog hunts best" Dog Quote by Lee Trevino
"If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas" Anonymous (Proverb)
"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." Dog Quotation by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."Famous Dog Quote by Gandhi
"My goal in life is to become as wonderful as my dog thinks I am." Toby Green"Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail." Dog Quote by Josh Billings
"You may have a dog that won't sit up, roll over or even cook breakfast, not because she's too stupid to learn how but because she's too smart to bother." Rick Horowitz
