There are hundreds of official dog breeds in the world and even more mixes and mutts than we can count. Each dog has his own unique set of characteristics and personality. But one thing is certain – these loveable and wonderful companions are fascinating creatures.
Bringing a dog or puppy into your family is a huge decision, and here are some things about man’s best four-legged friend that are sure to be of interest to children:
21 Interesting Facts about your Dogs
1st on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: The world’s oldest dog died at age 29.
2nd on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: Humans and dogs first became best friends 30,000 years ago.
They are known as man’s best friend. According to scientists, the relationship between dogs and humans could have endured for tens of thousands of years.
New research has found that the close bond started in Ice Age Europe between 19,000 and 30,000 years ago.
That was when wolves, ancestors of domestic dogs living today, were first tamed by ancient hunter gatherers, according to new genetic evidence.
3rd on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: In English-speaking countries, the most popular names for dogs are Max and Molly.
| Rank | Male | Female |
| 1 | Max | Molly |
| 2 | Jake | Bella |
| 3 | Buddy | Daisy |
| 4 | Jack | Magge |
| 5 | Cody | Lucy |
| … | … | … |
4th on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: Dogs and cats only sweat from their footpads and nose.
A dog’s skin is quite different, which is why you have never seen a dog with sweaty underarms. Most of the dog’s sweat glands are located around its foot pads. That is why, when a dog is overheated, you will sometimes see a trail of wet footprints that he has left behind as he walked across the floor.
5th on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: Dogs have 13 blood types, horses have 8, cows have 9 while Humans only have 4.
Over 13 canine blood groups have been described. Eight DEA (Dog Erythrocyte Antigen) types are recognized as international standards. Of these DEA types, DEA 4 and DEA 6 appear on the red blood cells of ~98% of dogs. Dogs with only DEA 4 or DEA 6 can thus serve as blood donors for the majority of the canine population. Any of these DEA types may stimulate an immune response in a recipient of a blood transfusion, but reactions to DEA 1.1+ are the most severe.
6th on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: In South Carolina, the maximum sentence for beating your dog is longer than the max sentence for beating your wife
The maximum penalty for beating a dog, the Post and Courier notes, is five years.
7th on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: A dog’s sense of smell is 10,000 times stronger than humans.
Dogs’ sense of smell overpowers our own by orders of magnitude—it’s 10,000 to 100,000 times as acute, scientists say. “Let’s suppose they’re just 10,000 times better,” says James Walker, former director of the Sensory Research Institute at Florida State University, who, with several colleagues, came up with that jaw-dropping estimate during a rigorously designed, oft-cited study. “If you make the analogy to vision, what you and I can see at a third of a mile, a dog could see more than 3,000 miles away and still see as well.”
8th on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: The first cloned dogs, six Canadian Labradors, started to work for South Korea’s customs service as sniffers in 2009.
The cloning work was conducted by a team of scientists at Seoul National University, who created the world’s first cloned dog – an Afghan Hound named Snuppy.
9th on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: The Nazis tried to teach dogs to talk and read.
The Germans saw canines as being almost as intelligent as humans and tried to train them to ‘speak’, read and spell, a university academic claims. They even conducted experiments in man-to-dog telepathy.
10th on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: FIDO, Abraham Lincoln’s dog, was also assassinated.
Like his master,FIDO would die a year later as a victim of an assassin. All of his life he had been surrounded by love, and hence Fido grew into a trusting and affectionate dog. Sadly, it was that friendly aspect that led to his tragic death in 1866. The big yellow rough-coated dog came across a man who appeared to be sleeping on the sidewalk in front of his home. He playfully approached the stranger and began to lick his face. The man, who was drunk at the time, awakened, saw the dog’s open mouth near his face, and panicked. He drew a knife and stabbed what he imagined to be an assailant.
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12th on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: In Switzerland, some people still regularly eat dog and cat meat. It’s legal in the country.
Eating Fido – or Tiddles – might be more commonly associated with China and Vietnam, but rustling up a slice of cured dog meat to enjoy as a snack is not unusual in rural areas of central and eastern Switzerland, Tages Anzeiger claims.
There are no statistics on the number of dogs and cats killed every year in Switzerland and social disapproval of dog-eating means the practice is shrouded in secrecy. No commercial abattoirs slaughter dogs or cats, but farmers in the Appenzell and St Gallen cantons in German-speaking Switzerland often slaughter the animals themselves.
The most popular breed of dog for eating is a close relative of the Rottweiler.
“There’s nothing odd about it”, one farmer in the Rhine Valley said. “Meat is meat.”
Another farmer, from Appenzell, tells of how he knocks dogs out with a club before slaughtering them and handing them to a butcher friend for preparation. A perplexed dog and cat-eater protested to the reporter that the practice never used to be frowned upon.
13th on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: Husky dogs have been banned from Antarctica since 1994.
Husky dogs have been pulling sleds in Antarctica since 1898. They accompanied Roald Amundsen and his men (above), and pulled them to the South Pole and back — the ones that weren’t eaten along the way. They frustrated Robert Falcon Scott before he died on his trek back from the pole. He preferred ponies.
In recent years, dog sleds have been used less and less, and now the last 14 dogs, kept by the British Antarctic Survey, have left the continent. The quest for ecological purity is the reason. By treaty, dogs are now banned from Antarctica, the reason being that they might introduce new microorganisms or viruses.
The last dogs made their final run across Alexander Island in February and flew out to the Falkland Islands. They are on their way, eventually, to an Inuit village on Hudson Bay, where they won’t be ecological outlaws, because dogs and their wolf ancestors are indigenous there. The 14 dogs will then continue their working lives.
14th on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: 3 dogs survived the Titanic sinking out of 12 canines on board.
There were 12 canines on the doomed ocean liner, three of which survived. Those include a baby Pomeranian, Lady, whose owner, Margaret Hays of New York City, wrapped her in a blanket and carried her into a lifeboat.
The other two dogs to survive were also small, pedigreed pooches who travelled in their owners’ cabins. (All the dogs on board belonged to first-class passengers.) Sun Yat-sen, a Pekingese belonging to Henry and Myra Harper (of the Harper & Row publishing dynasty) lived to yip another day, as did a Pomeranian belonging to Elizabeth Rothschild of New York.
15th on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: The smallest living dog in terms of length is a chihuahua who measured 15.2 cm (6 in).
The smallest dog in terms of length is Heaven Sent Brandy, a female chihuahua who measured 15.2 cm (6 in) from the nose to the tip of the tail on 31 January 2005. Brandy lives with her owner, Paulette Keller in Largo, Florida, USA.
Brandy’s date of birth is 31 December 2003.
Source: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/smallest-dog-living-(length)
16th on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: Chocolate can sicken and even kill dogs.
The sweet treat can lead to illness and even death in dogs. Vets say it’s one of the most common causes of dogpoisoning.
If you think your pooch might’ve eaten chocolate — especially the darker kinds — call your vet right away. She’ll ask about your dog’s size, what kind of chocolate he ate, and how much. She might want you to make your dog vomit or simply watch his behavior, says vet Tina Wismer, DVM. She’s the medical director of the Animal Poison Control Center at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).
A chocolate chip cookie can cause problems for a little dog, and a bag of chocolate chips can spell trouble for a big one.
Source: http://pets.webmd.com/dogs/guide/dogs-and-chocolate-get-the-facts
17th on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: Trained Dogs can sniff out prostate cancer with 98% accuracy.
Researchers at the Istituto Clinico Humanitas in Italy have trained two dogs that can sniff out the scent of prostate cancer in urine samples with a success rate of 98 percent, a new study reports. The pool of over 600 subjects makes this the largest study ever conducted using cancer-sniffing dogs.
Source: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/05/19/dogs-sniff-out-prostate-cancer-with-98-percent-accuracy
18th on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: The average dog is as intelligent as a two-year-old child.
The canine IQ test results are in: Even the average dog has the mental abilities of a 2-year-old child.
The finding is based on a language development test, revealing average dogs can learn 165 words (similar to a 2-year-old child), including signals and gestures, and dogs in the top 20 percent in intelligence can learn 250 words.
Source: http://www.livescience.com/5613-dogs-smart-2-year-kids.html
19th on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: About one million dogs are the primary beneficiary in their owners’ wills in the U.S.
American consumers are expected to collectively spend $370 million on pet costumes this Halloween. That’s $70 million more than last year, and a whopping 40% increase compared to 2010. And how’s this for perspective: Americans will spend barely three times more on costumes for children than they will for pets.
Source: http://www.livescience.com/5613-dogs-smart-2-year-kids.html
20th on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: 30,000 dogs a day are slaughtered in China for meat and fur.
Animal rights campaigners have released pictures and video footage which appear to show dogs being clubbed to death at an abattoir in China.
Investigators for Animal Equality said they gained access to slaughterhouses in Zhanjiang and Leizhou, which it says are used, with others, to kill tens of thousands of dogs every day.
The meat, which some Chinese believe has medicinal properties, is sold for up to 40 yen (£4.20) per 500g at stalls in Zhanjiang, investigators said.
Animal Equality says more than 10 million dogs are killed every year in China, although other estimates put the number at closer to 16 million.
Source: http://news.sky.com/story/china-dogs-clubbed-to-death-at-abattoirs-10449411
21th on 21 interesting Facts About Dogs: Laika, the first dog in space, did not die peacefully as initially reported by the Soviets. She died because the cabin overheated.
Laika (Russian: Лайка; c. 1954 – November 3, 1957) was a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. Laika, a stray dog from the streets of Moscow, was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on November 3, 1957.
Laika died within hours from overheating, possibly caused by a failure of the central R-7 sustainer to separate from the payload. The true cause and time of her death were not made public until 2002; instead, it was widely reported that she died when her oxygen ran out on day six or, as the Soviet government initially claimed, she was euthanised prior to oxygen depletion.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika
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