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A dog’s nose print is unique, much like a person’s fingerprint.
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Dogs’ noses can sense heat/thermal radiation, which explains why blind or deaf dogs can still hunt.
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Your dog’s sense of smell is between 10,000 to 100,000 times better than yours.
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Petting a dog can actually benefit your physical and mental health. Studies have shown that petting a dog for 15 minutes can lower blood pressure by 10%, can help lower feelings of stress, depression, and combat loneliness.
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Dogs can be trained to to detect cancer and other diseases in humans. Cancerous cells release different metabolic waste products than healthy cells in the human body. Dogs may even be able to sniff out cancer cells simply through smelling someone’s breath.
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All puppies are born deaf. As they get older, they can hear 4 times better than humans can.
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Dogs don’t sweat, instead they pant to cool themselves.
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Dalmatians are born completely white, and develop their spots as they get older.
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After birth, puppies’ eyes do not fully open until they’re about 12 days old.
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The U.S. has the highest pet dog population in the world, at over 78 million.
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Dogs are not color blind. They can actually see in color, just not as vividly as humans. It is similar to our vision at dusk.
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A one-year-old dog is as mature, physically, as a 15-year-old human.
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Dogs have a visual range of 250 degrees compared to the human range of 180 degrees.
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Dogs have 3 eyelids – an upper and lower eyelid and a 3rd one hidden between them. It helps protect their eyes from dirt and dust.
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The oldest reliable age recorded for a dog is 29 years and 5 months – an Australian Cattle Dog called Bluey.
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An adult dog has 42 teeth in total, as compared to a human’s normal 32 teeth.
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People have been keeping dogs for pets for 12,000 years.
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A female dog carries her puppies for about 60 days before they are born.
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The average lifespan of a dog is between 10 and 13 years, but some can live much longer.
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Greyhounds can beat cheetahs in a race. While cheetahs can run twice as fast as greyhounds, they can only maintain that 70 mph speed for about 30 seconds. A Greyhound can maintain a 35 mph speed for about 7 miles. So, the cheetah may start out first, but the greyhound will soon overtake him.
