2. Dogs were soldier at war, as early as 650 B.C. They were Assyrian mastiffs dogs, that were used as attack dogs, messengers and guards.
3. The first school for "Seeing Eyes" dogs, was founded in the 1920s, to help the soldiers blinded during the First World War.
4. Dogs have over 220 million scent-detectors in their nose. We, humans, have a mere 5 million in ours. A dog can detect scents at concentrations nearly 100 million times lower than we can, recognizing blood diluted at one dropt to 5 quarts (4.7L) of water.
5. Dogs see in colors. They see the colors green, yellow and orange as yellowish, and they see violet and blue as blue. Blue-green is seen as a gray. Take a look here, to see their color spectrum :
6. Pit-Bull are not as nasty as people think they are. In July of 2010, a Bristol pit-bull was called a hero after he alerted his family to a fire. He even tried to pull the family 3 months old baby and her bassinet out of the house.
7. There is no bad dog. There is only bad dog-owner.
8. It can cost between 500 USD / year to 2 500 USD / year to care for a dog.
9. Not only dogs can have puppies. Sharks have pups too.
10. Have your dog fixed. An unspayed female dog, her mate and all of their puppies and their puppies' puppies, if none neutered or spayed, add up to, after 6 years : 67 000 puppies.
source :
fact 5 :
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/canine-corner/200810/can-dogs-see-colors.
fact 6 : http://www.wsbt.com/news/local/Red-Cross-Family-dog-tried-to-pull-baby-out-of-burning-home-98024604.html
fact 8 : http://dogs.about.com/od/becomingadogowner/a/costofdogs.htm
fact 10 :
http://spayusa.org/media/pdfs/Dogs_Multiply_Pyramid.pdf
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