6 Dog Facts You Didn’t Know Or Well Maybe You Did!!
Paul McCartney added in an extra 4 high-pitched whistle in the song ‘A Day in the Life’ for his Shetland sheepdog. It has been proven that dogs can actually ‘smell’ some types of cancer, so if your dog is acting strange, ther might be nothing wrong with them, but it might be time for you have a check up for that nagging pain.
Dogs Can Smell and Hear Better Than Humans, Can’t Say The Same About Their Taste Buds Though!
The human nose has about 5 million scent receptors while dogs have about 150 million scent receptors, which is dogs are amazing for sniffing out drugs, missing people, explosives as well as smelly bones buried in our backyard six months back.
Ditto for their hearing, I swear my dog can hear when my neighbors are talking across the street, I seem him tilt his head weirdly trying to locate the source of the sound. When I see my dog ears perk up I know a family member is going to be at the door. They can pick up wider frequencies of sound than humans can. However their taste buds are worse than my kids.
Dogs have less than one-fourth of human taste buds which means they would would happily eat leftovers and even my mother-in-law’s cooking. Their sense of taste is has evolved from the time they had hunt for different kind of foods and would eat anything they found in the wild.
My neighbours two year old and my dog are on par when it comes to smartness
Dogs are not that smart, even though we like to think they are really smart. Their average intelligence is like a baby, maybe this why they like babies more. They can understand simple words and commands. Unlike my husband, dogs are trainable.
What does tail wagging mean?
Tail wagging could signify a lot of things, according to our friends at discovery.com dogs wag their tails to the right when they’re happy and to the left when they’re frightened. Rapid tail wagging means they are getting aggressive.
Dogs have a sixth sense
I have always noticed a first a whining erratic behaviour and then trying to dig through the ground to hide right before a storm hits us.
Dogs get jealous
I have noticed our dog get jealous when he does not get attention. Family members who come home after being away for a time, have to first pet and talk to our dog before talking to us, otherwise our dog will keep barking till they do.
Dogs respond to our tone
My dog always comes and sits with me when i’m upset, how he knows that was always a mystery to me. Now, I know that he responding to the change in my tone and speech when i’m upset.