Fun facts about dogs

- 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.

- Owning two dogs is no more work than owning one, but three dogs is hard work.

- Pay no more then half of the retail price for a used kennel.

- Figure on 1 pound of dry dog food for every 30 pounds of dogs.

- In a suburb of medium density, a dog’s bark can be heard in 200 surrounding houses — or by 800 people.

- 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.

- A stray dog who is afraid of people will trust the people associated with the dogs it plays with.

- 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.

- If a dog tolerates gentle handling between its toes, it probably is suited for children.

- If two dogs are headed for a fight and they appear about evenly matched, the dog on his home turf will win easily.

- If you want to be friends with somebody else’s dog, let the dog make the first move, and don’t be too quick to respond.

- It costs $1.50 a day to feed and care for a sled dog.

- A kennel should be two times the length of the dog you are building it for. Measure the dog from its nose to the tip of its tail.

- The best time for taking a puppy from its litter — psychologically and physically — is when it is 49 days old.

- The first musher to reach the town of Iditarod — the halfway point — in the Alaska Iditarod sled race will not win the race.

Source: DogHause