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Facts Friday-
20 awesome facts about the Dogs!
This creature has some power that will make most of us go "Awwww"
Here are the few facts about them!
1. Dogs are capable of understanding about 250 words and they can even perform some basic mathematic calculation. they have the intelligence of 2-year-old kid!
2. The wetness on the dog's nose is essential for them to identify the direction of the smell.
3. The reason the dogs curl up because of an age-old instinct to keep themselves warm and to protect their vital organs while they sleep.
4. Dogs chase their tails for a variety of reasons: curiosity, exercise, anxiety, predatory instinct or, they might have fleas! If your dog is chasing his tail excessively, talk with your vet.
5. Leave a piece of clothing that smells like you to your dog. Your smell will comfort them and will help them to survive the separation.
6. In a study done at California University, it is found that the dogs can get jealous on the human.
7. Dogs are trained in such a way that they can see the physical and emotional changes in the human. There are seizure dogs particularly trained to accompany patients.
8. When your dog spins in a circle before settling down, it is because the dog is making himself/ herself comfortable before the "snuggle"
9. Dogs can see a lot better than the human at night(thanks to its special membrane, tapetum lucidum)
10. They can hear up to 4 times the distance of the human and has 42 teeth, 3 eyelids.
11. Dogs and humans have the same type of slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement (REM) and during this REM stage dogs can dream. The twitching and paw movements that occur during their sleep are signs that your pet is dreaming.
12. Dogs’ ears are extremely expressive. It’s no wonder! There are more than a dozen separate muscles that control a dog’s ear movements.
13. Wolves and dogs can mate to produce fertile offspring
14 If never spayed or neutered, a pair of dogs can produce 66,000 puppies in 6 years.
15. They can fall in love!
16. With an average lifespan of just over 11 years, the typical dog costs $13,500.
17. Puppies are sometimes rejected by their mother if they are born by cesarean and cleaned up before being given back to her.
18. A puppy is born blind, deaf, and toothless.
19 .Different smells in the dog’s urine can tell other dogs whether the dog leaving the message is female or male, old or young, sick or healthy, happy or angry.
20. The world's oldest dog died at the age of 29.
Still, there are so many astonishing facts which I cannot pen here.
BTW, Thanks for the read! :)
Very interesting facts.
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