Interesting Dog Facts That You Probably Don't Know

• Many people are not aware that a dogs normal body temperature is between 100.5 to around 102.5

  

  A Few Interesting Facts about Dogs!

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• Female dogs only carry their puppies for about 60 days till birth.
• Most adult dogs have forty two teeth at maturity.
• 1 in 3 families in the United States own dogs.
• The only sweat glands dogs have are in between their paw pads.
• The most popular dog names are Maggie, Molly, Jack and Max.
• All Dalmatians are born pure white.
• Puppies are born toothless, blind and deaf and very dependent on their mothers.
• Dogs develop the touch sense first because their bodies including paws have super sensitive nerve endings.
• It takes eighteen or muscle for a dog to move its ears.
• There is an estimate of five hundred million or more dogs around the world.
• The United States has the highest population of dogs in the world.
• Dogs have lived with humans for approximately for over fourteen thousand years.
• The average dog can run about nineteen miles per hour.
• Greyhounds are the fastest dogs on earth averaging at a speed of forty five miles per hour.
• The most popular breed of dog in the United States is a Labrador retriever.
• Dogs smelling sense is greater than one thousand times better than a human.
• Dog urine can help other dogs determine whether the dog is leaving a male/female or young/old or healthy/sick or angry/happy type of message.
• Dogs are as smart as a three year old and can understand between 150 and 200 words or signals.
• The beagle and collie are known to be the nosiest dogs.
• The most intelligent dogs are known to be the Poodle and Border Collie.
• The least intelligent dogs are the Basenji and Afghan hound.
• There are many great and interesting facts about dogs which makes them very unique.

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