Thursday, August 25, 2011

Interesting Dog Facts Part 4



A dog’s mouth exerts 150-200 pounds of pressure per square inch … with some dogs exerting up to 450 pounds per square inch.

More than 5,000,000 puppies are born in the U.S. every year. More than 1 in 3 American families own a dog.

The Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts both offer merit badges in dog care.

The world's smallest dog is the Chihuahua, which means "tiny dog in the sky."


Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.

Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.



Alice England



5 comments:

Giupetto and Gianna Tails said...

Very interesting.
I was actually surprised it was not more than 1 out of 3. I thought it would be at least 1/2 or even more than half. I wonder how many families have cats.

Giupetto and Gianna Tails said...

And really cute picture - was that puppy Sasha?

Tisha said...

Such interesting facts. I'm wondering how many of those 1-n-3 families has more than 1 dog...gotta Google.

Tisha said...

Such interesting facts. I'm wondering how many of those 1-n-3 families has more than 1 dog...gotta Google.

AnnieKDesigns said...

Interesting facts and Cody is a lefty!