Weird Facts about Dogs You Never Knew...

• The world's smartest dogs are thought to be (1) the border collie, (2) the poodle, and (3) the golden retriever... while the dumbest dog is believed to be the Afghan hound
• Dogs judge objects first by their movement, then by their brightness, and lastly by their shape
• Dogs have two times as many muscles to move their ears as people
• The longer a dog's nose, the more effective it's internal cooling system
• An elderly woman was saved by her 12 pound Yorkshire Terrier who fought off an 80 pound Akita and survived with only 9 stitches
• It is a myth that dogs are color blind. They can actually see in color, just not as vividly as humans. It is akin to our vision at dusk.
• Dogs DO have better low-light vision than humans because of a special light-reflecting layer behind their retinas
• A German Shepherd guide dog led her blind companion the entire 2100 mile Applachian Trail
• If never spayed or neutered, a female dog, her mate, and their puppies could product over 66,000 dogs in 6 years!
• Dogs' only sweat glands are between their paw pads
• Like human babies, Chihuahuas are born with a soft spot in their skull which closes with age
• Teddy Roosevelt's dog, Pete, ripped a French ambassador's pants off at the White House
• The average city dog lives 3 years longer than a country dog
• In 2002 alone, more people in the U.S. were killed by dogs than by sharks in the past 100 years(that DOES NOT mean dogs are vicious, but rather humans have more contacts with canines than sharks. And I presume you have never seen a shark walking down the street?)
• Basset Hounds cannot swim
• The Bible mentions dogs 14 times.
• Three dogs survived the sinking of the Titanic - a Newfoundland, a Pomeranian, and a Pekingese
• There are only 350 Cisky Terriers in the world - perhaps the rarest breed
• Dogs have no sense of "time"
• Only dogs and humans have prostates but dogs do not have an appendix
• A dog's smell is more than 100,000 times stronger than that of a human's
• Davy Crockett had a dog named Sport

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