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       KNOW MORE ABOUT DOGS
       By: eba95 Date: August 9, 2010, 4:00 am
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       Based on an average life span of 11
       years, the cost of owning a dog is
       $13,350.
       • Dogs only sweat from the bottoms of
       their feet, the only way they can
       discharge heat is by panting. Dogs
       and wolves yawn as a sign of
       contentment.
       • Dogs have about 100 different facial
       expressions, most of them made
       with the ears. Unfortunately, the
       likes of bulldogs and pitbulls only
       have 10, due to their breeding.
       Therefore, these dogs easily get
       misinterpreted by other dogs and
       often get into fights.
       • One of the worlds oldest breeds of
       dog is the Saluki. It is thought to
       have been developed in ancient
       Mesopotamia around 3000 B.C.
       • "Three dog night" (attributed to
       Australian Aborigines) came about
       because on especially cold nights
       these nomadic people needed three
       dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from
       freezing.
       • A dog's sense of smell is one of the
       keenest in nature. If a pot of stew
       was cooking on a stove, a human
       would smell the stew, while the dog
       could smell the beef, carrots, peas,
       potatoes, spices, and all the other
       individual ingredients in the stew. In
       fact, if you unfolded and laid out the
       delicate membranes from inside a
       dogs nose, the membranes would be
       larger than the dog itself.
       • It was recently discovered that dogs
       DO see in color, just not as vivid as
       the color that humans see.
       • Two dogs survived the sinking of
       Titanic, yes that's right, two DOGS
       survived. They escaped on early
       lifeboats carrying so few people that
       no one objected. Miss Margaret Hays
       of New York brought her
       Pomeranian with her in lifeboat No.
       7, while Henry Sleeper Harper of the
       publishing family boarded boat No. 3
       with his Pekinese, Sun Yat Sen.
       • Giving dogs chocolate could be fatal
       for them, because theobromine, an
       ingredient of chocolate, stimulates
       the central nervous system and
       cardiac muscle. About 1.1 kg of milk
       chocolate or just 146 g of cooking
       chocolate (which has more
       theobromine per gram) could kill a
       22 kg dog.
       • In the original 101 Dalmatians
       movie, Pongo has 72 spots, Perdita
       has 68 and each of the puppies has
       32.
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