Some facts about dogs

Bringing a dog or puppy into your family is a huge decision, and here are some things about man’s best four-legged friend that are sure to be of interest to children (and some adults):
- An adult dog has 42 teeth.
- A dog’s sense of smell is more than 1 million times stronger than that of a person.
- More than 1 in 3 families in the United States owns a dog.
- Spaying or neutering your dog can help prevent certain types of cancer.
- If never spayed or neutered, a pair of dogs can produce 66,000 puppies in 6 years.
- A dog’s sense of hearing is more than 10 times more accurate than that of a person.
- The average dog can run about 19 miles per hour at full speed.
- Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible.
- A dog’s nose print is one of a kind, very similar to a person’s fingerprint.
- The average body temperature for a dog is 101.2.
- With an average lifespan of just over 11 years, the typical dog costs $13,500.
- The only sweat glands a dog has are between its toes.
- Dogs are omnivorous; they need to eat more than just meat.
- Dogs have twice as many ear muscles as people.
- Dogs will be submissive to anyone they feel is higher up in the pack.
- People have been keeping dogs for pets for 12,000 years.
- A female dog carries her puppies for about 60 days before they are born.
- It is a myth dogs are color blind; they actually see color, just not as vividly as a person.
- Obesity is the number-one health problem in dogs.
- Seventy percent of people sign their pets name on greeting/holiday cards.