Top 10 Dog Myths & Little-Known Facts About Dogs
The folks at the Dog Hause came up with a list of 15 interesting facts about dogs.
I've chosen my favorites to share with you here...
Top 10 Dog Myths & Facts About Dogs:
1. If you give your dog a fancy name, it's not for your dog but for your pride. You'll end up using a nickname.
2. Owning two dogs is no more work than owning one, but three dogs is hard work.
3. Pay no more than half of the retail price for a used kennel.
4. Figure on 1 pound of dry dog food for every 30 pounds of dogs.
5. In a suburb of medium density, a dog's bark can be heard in 200 surrounding houses -- or by 800 people.
6. Anything over 45 minutes seems like forever to your dog. You will be greeted as enthusiastically coming back from a two-hour shopping trip as you will coming back from a two-day vacation.
7. A stray dog who is afraid of people will trust the people associated with the dogs it plays with.
8. The old rule -- multiplying a dog's age by 7 to find the equivalent human age -- is fallacious. A dog is able to reproduce at 1 year and has reached full growth by 2 years. To calculate a dog's age in human terms, count the first year at 15, the second year as 10, and each year after that as 5.
9. If a dog tolerates gentle handling between its toes, it probably is suited for children.
10. The best time for taking a puppy from its litter -- psychologically and physically -- is when it is 49 days old.
View the complete list from Dog Hause here.
View the complete list from Dog Hause
Thankyou for sharing these great and useful tips about dogs. One day i hope to get a Labrador and possibly even a Rhodesian Ridgeback . We have only had Corgis, Mongrels and Border Collies thus far in the family so I'm certainly going to try the gentle handling of toes tip when choosing a Ridgeback puppy. My sister used to have a Ridgeback so i'm familiar with their antics otherwise.