- An adult dog has 42 teeth.
- Dogs aren’t actually colour blind. They can see in colour, just not as well as humans. It would be like our vision at dusk or dawn.
- If never de-sexed, a female dog, her mate, and their puppies could produce over 66,000 dogs in 6 years!
- Dogs only have one sweat gland and that is located between their paw pads!
- The world’s smartest dogs are thought to be (1) the Border Collie, (2) the Poodle, and (3) the Golden Retriever (and we have all three breeds visit us at Paddington Pups!)
- A dog’s sense of hearing is ten times better than ours.
Dogs can smell about 1,000 times better than humans. While humans have 5 million smell-detecting cells, dogs have more than 220 million. The part of the brain that interprets smell is also 4 times larger in dogs than in humans.
This is definitely one of the best articles I have found on this topic. Have you looked into the opposite side of the subject of dog training? Personally, I think a solid case could be made either way, but please let me know if you have any more sources on the Internet to verify what you are saying.