1. Your dog is as smart as your 2 year old kid.
The reason your baby and puppy get along well is that they speak the same language. Or at least they understand on average the same number of words and gestures – 250!
2. Dogs and cats drink water in a similar way.
It’s hard to believe, but dogs drink water like cats do, bending the tip of the tongue and forming a spoon on the contrary, on the opposite from the palate to the side.
3. Your dog has no sense of time – she is bored and losing you every time you leave.
If you think your dog knows when it’s lunch time or walks, you’re right! Dogs remember their routine and ours procedures and they also feel how much time has passed since past interactions. However, they do not have a sense of time, and they, rather, they focus on their biological clocks and instincts.
4. Your dog’s mustache helps her “see” in in the dark.
Of course, this is not really night vision or super power, but this mustache detect even small changes in air flow, providing dog information on the size, shape and speed of objects nearby This allows your dog to better understand the approaching danger or prey – even at night.
5. Your dog’s sense of smell at about 10 million times higher than yours.
Depending on the type and breed of your dog, it may have 100 to 300 million nose odor receptors. In people like these 5 million receptors. In addition, part of the brain of dogs, which responsible for smell, 40 times more than a similar part of the brain person. Together, this provides the highest sensitivity. the smell of a dog, which is a million times higher than ours.
6. Dogs can hear 4 times better than people
Despite the fact that puppies are born completely deaf, they quickly surpass our ability to hear. Dogs also in unlike us, they hear higher sounds ranging from 67 to 45000 Hz. A person hears in the range of 64-23000 Hz. However, with in dogs and humans, the upper limit of audible sounds gradually decreases.
7. Your dog can literally “smell” your feelings and emotions.
With the help of smell your dog can determine what you feel – for example, if you suddenly sweat, become nervous or scared. It probably also works for certain diseases, that the dog can smell with his nose.
8. Dogs have sweat glands, but only on the pads paws.
Sweat glands are located between the pads. This explains why dogs tend to wet their feet on a hot day.
9. The strength of the jaws in dogs is on average 150 kg
Measurements were carried out on rottweilers, German shepherds and American pit bull terriers. For comparison, the jaw of a person can apply pressure of 50 kg, jaw of white sharks of 250 kg, and crocodiles – monstrous 1000 kg! In addition, dogs have 42 teeth, in contrast from people who have 32 of them.
10. A one-year-old puppy is physically developed as well as 15 year old man.
Of course, different breeds mature in different ways. Large breeds grow faster than small ones. However, it is believed that any dog at the age of 1.5 years is an adult.
