{"id":1033,"date":"2013-03-20T20:01:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T20:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2013-03-20T20:01:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T20:01:25","slug":"crazy-facts-about-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/crazy-facts-about-dogs","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Facts About Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Great Dog Facts!<\/h2>\n<h3>Check out some of these dogs facts we have compiled together. Do you have some crazy dog facts? Share them with us by commenting on our blog!<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/61\/20110425_German_Shepherd_Dog_8505.jpg\/800px-20110425_German_Shepherd_Dog_8505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"129\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boxers were named after their habit of playing. At the beginning of play with another dog, a Boxer will stand on his hind legs and &#8216;box&#8217; at his opponent.<\/li>\n<li>The first guide dogs for the blind and visually impaired were trained in Germany to provide assistance for those blinded in the war. German Shepherds were used for their protective and strong sense of loyalty to their owner.<\/li>\n<li>Humans can detect sounds at 20,000 times per second, while dogs can sense frequencies of 30,000 times per second.<\/li>\n<li>Dogs sweat through the pads of their feet.<\/li>\n<li>A dog&#8217;s nose has over 200 scent receiving cells.<\/li>\n<li>21% of dogs and 7% of cats snore.<\/li>\n<li>Newfoundland\u2019s are such great swimmers because of their webbed feet.\u00a0 Basset Hounds cannot swim at all.<\/li>\n<li>All dogs are the descendant of the wolf that lived in eastern Asia about 15,000 years ago.<\/li>\n<li>Dogs are natural pack animals and they are naturally submissive to any dog with a higher pack status \u2013 human or canine.<\/li>\n<li>33 percent of dog owners admit that they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave them messages on an answering machine.<\/li>\n<li>A frightened dog will put its tail between his legs because it cuts off the sent glands in its anal region which a very vulnerable part of the anatomy. Since the anal glands carry personal scents that identify the individual dogs, the tail between the legs action is the dog\u2019s equivalent of insecure humans hiding their faces.<\/li>\n<li>A dog\u2019s nose print is as unique as a human\u2019s finger print and can be used to accurately identify them.<\/li>\n<li>Soulmates: More than half of us say we share characteristics with our dogs!<\/li>\n<li>During the Vietnam war 4500 working dogs were sent to aid the troops.<\/li>\n<li>The world\u2019s smartest dogs are thought to be the Border Collie, the Poodle, and the Golden Retriever.<\/li>\n<li>A dog\u2019s smell is more than 100,000 times stronger than that of a humans.<\/li>\n<li>Rin Tin Tin was the first Hollywood dog star\u2026 and he really signed his movie contracts, all 22 of them with a paw print!<\/li>\n<li>A one year old dog is as mature, physically, as a 15 year old human.<\/li>\n<li>Three dogs survived the sinking of the Titanic \u2013 a Newfoundland, a Pomeranian, and a Pekingese.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Dog Facts! Check out some of these dogs facts we have compiled together. Do you have some crazy dog facts? Share them with us by commenting on our blog! Boxers were named after their habit of playing. At the beginning of play with another dog, a Boxer will stand on his hind legs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[18,434,265,584,122,123,33,19,24,25,38,20,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}