Every dog owner know that dogs are the best creatures in the world. We thought we’d find some brilliant facts about our canine friends to give you a whole new perspective on them. Here are 11 amazing facts about dogs that will absolutely blow your mind…
#1- Dalmatian puppies are born completely white and only develop their spots as they age.
#2- Just as human fingerprints can be used to identify us, so too can the noses of dogs with their unique ridges.
#3- The priciest dog in the world, a Tibetan Mastiff, was recently bought in China for $1.5 million.
#4- Basset hounds have the largest ears in the dog world measuring on average between 7 and 10 inches long.
#5- USA is the biggest dog loving country in the world with over 75 million dogs living there.
#6- Obesity is the #1 health problem among dogs which comes from a mixture of some of them not knowing when to stop eating and humans feeding them too much.
#7- The bible mentions dogs 14 times.
#8- Dogs can look so expressive because they have 18 muscles in their ears–allowing them to contort their face in many different ways depending on the situation.
#9- Dogs wagging their tails doesn’t just mean they’re happy. It has a whole language of its own. Two simple examples are that when it wags to the left they are frightened and to the right they are happy. Humans won’t detect all the movements of the tail but other dogs can.
#10- Dogs can smell disease because their power of scent is 10,000 more powerful than our own. Some dogs are even able to smell out early signs of cancer.
#11- Three dogs survived the Titanic. They were all staying in first class cabins.
