30 Interesting Facts About Dogs

Down below you'll find 30 Interessting facts about dogs

1. There is a program in Ohio that pairs abused, neglected or abandoned dogs with prison inmates for the rehabilitation of the dogs and the inmates.

2. Humans and dogs are the only known species to seek visual cues from another individual’s eyes, and dogs only do this when interacting with humans.

3. China’s pet markets make most of their money on ill animals. Vendors perform tabletop plastic surgery to make sickly mutts resemble more valuable breeds, then pump them full of new blood laced with painkillers and stimulants. The dogs are known as “week dogs,” because they die in seven days.

4. Google prefers dogs to cats. Their code of conduct specifically states that they are a dog company.

5. JFK’s daughter was secretly gifted the puppy of the first Russian dog in space as part of a series of secret daily correspondence between JFK and Khrushchev. The dog then proceeded to bite every Kennedy.

6. Spiked dog collars were invented in ancient Greece and were originally designed to protect the dog’s throat from wolf attacks.

7. Three stray dogs in Afghanistan saved 50 American soldiers by attacking a suicide bomber. A Facebook group raised $21,000 to bring the dogs back to the US and reunite them with the soldiers.

8. A British bomb detection dog in Afghanistan died from the stress of seeing his handler shot. They had set a new record for bomb detections and the dog was awarded the equivalent to a Victoria Cross.

9. The dog that played Comet on “Full House” is the same dog that played Air Bud. – Source

10. Dogs bark more than wolves because dogs have evolved into the equivalent of overgrown wolf puppies.

11. Three dogs in New Zealand were taught to drive a modified car around a race track in an effort to show the intelligence of shelter dogs.

12. Russia’s Vladimir Putin brought a large dog with him to a round of negotiations with German politician, Angela Merkel, knowing that she had a pathological fear of dogs, in order to gain a psychological edge.

13. In the 1860’s in San Francisco, two stray dogs who were “best friends” became local celebrities, their exploits were celebrated in local papers, and they were granted immunity from the city’s dog catchers.

14. If a guide dog judges that a command is unsafe, it will refuse the command. This is called “intelligent disobedience”.

15. A Labrador retriever service dog pulled his disabled owner into the recovery position after he was struck unconscious, then covered him with a blanket, retrieved his mobile phone and pushed it against his face, and only left his owner to fetch help once he had regained consciousness.

16. Pit Bulls were once known as “nanny dogs” because of how kind and protective they were of children.

17. The soviets trained dogs to serve as anti-tank bombers, but because they used soviet tanks to train the dogs, the dogs attacked Russian tanks instead of their German targets.

18. Seeing eye dogs are trained to poop on command, so that their vision impaired owners can easily clean up after them.

19. In season one of HBO’s Game of Thrones, the dire wolves were played by a relatively new breed of dog known as the Northern Inuit Dog.

20. If you get the proper paperwork filed out, you can have your dog listed as an “Emotional Support Animal,” allowing you to bring him/her on planes and allowing him/her to live with you even if your lodging prohibits dogs.

21. Dogs are often placed with cheetahs in captivity to help keep them calm.

22. There is an effort called The Yellow Dog Project, which was created to bring awareness to the general public about dogs who need space while training, recovering from surgery, or being rehabilitated through the use of a yellow bow attached to the dog for easy visual recognition.

23. The young St. Bernard rescue dogs learn how to rescue lost travelers through modeling the behavior of older dogs. They do not receive any special training, and the dogs decide for themselves if they will specialize in staying with the victim or going to seek help.

24. In WWII, a dog named Gander fended off two Japanese ambushes. When they came back again, with a grenade this time, Gander picked it up and charged back at them, killing more Japanese, saving his wounded team, going out in a blaze of glory and earning a posthumous medal.

25. Some dogs that fail seeing-eye school go to work as bomb-sniffers for the ATF.

26. Service dogs are trained to know when they are on duty. When their harness is on, they know they are at work. When you take it off they instantly become playful and energetic.

27. There are special bins in Mexico City where when you put your dog poo in it, you get free wifi. The more poo, the longer the free wifi.

28. There is a seeing-eye goose in Poland that leads around a blind dog.

29. The average dog can learn 165 words, count up to 4 or 5 and even have a basic understanding of arithmetic.

30. Using a basic food-reward system, normal household dogs were trained to detect both lung and breast cancer with 90-100% success rate when checked by biopsy-confirmation, only by smelling patient’s breath. This was also after only a few weeks of training.