I found some fun dog facts on the AKC’s website and I wanted to share a few of them.
Every dog has their own unique nose print, just like a person’s fingerprint.
Both your blood pressure and your dog’s blood pressure go down when you pet him.
Almost half of the dogs in the US sleep in their owner’s beds.
Dogs curl up in a ball when they’re sleeping to protect themselves. This is an instinct that comes from a time when they needed protection from predators in the wild.
A person’s nose has about 5 million receptors, but a dog’s nose has about 300 million.
Dogs are not colorblind, as they can actually see blue and yellow.
When dogs kick after they go to the bathroom, they’re not trying to cover it up. They are actually marking their territory with the scent glands in their feet.
Yawning can be contagious not just for people, but for dogs too. Studies show that even just the sound of a person yawning can cause your dog to yawn. And it’s much more likely to happen when it’s the yawn of a person your dog knows.
Dalmatians are born completely white and develop their spots later. The spots start to show up at about two weeks old and will continue until they are over a year old.
People have between 2,000 and 10,000 taste buds and dogs have about 1,700.
Dogs are one of a small group of animals who show unselfish kindness towards others without expecting any reward.
Greyhounds can beat cheetahs in a race. The cheetah may start out first, but the Greyhound will certainly pass him before long. This is because a cheetah can run twice as fast, but only for about 30 seconds. A Greyhound can’t run as fast, but has way more endurance.
There are over 75 million pet dogs in the US, which is more than in any other country.
I was surprised to read that a dog’s nose print is like a fingerprint. I had never heard that before.
So I did a little research and discovered an article in Psychology Today. And, yes, they agree that each dog’s nose has unique characteristics made up of “dimples, grooves and ridges that are distinctive enough to identify one dog from all others. By 2 months of age, the nose print pattern is established, and monthly testing over the first year of their life showed no changes in the pattern. Also, the investigators were able to show that a computer program could be used to identify nose prints”.
Another article at National Institutes of Health reports that a dog’s nose pattern is, indeed, unique to each dog and it stays the same no matter when the image is taken.
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