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.
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.