Fun Facts about Dogs and Cats

Dogs   🐶                                    

• A dog's heart beats 50 times faster than the average human's.
• The longer a dog's nose is, the more effective their internal cooling system is.
• Not all dogs can swim; a Basset Hound cant.
• Dogs only sweat through the pads on their feet.🐾
• There are more than a dozen separate muscles that control a dog's ear movements.
• Dog's noses have a thin layer of mucus that helps them absorb scent.
• Dogs can dream when they sleep.💤 They have the same rapid eye movement as humans.
• A dog's brain releases oxytocin (the love 💞 hormone) when they play with humans and other dogs.
• Dog's eyes contain a special membrane called the tapetum lucidum, which allows them to see in the dark.👀
• Dogs are not colour blind. They can see blue and yellow colours as well as monochrome.
• Dogs can hear around 4x the distance of a human.
• Dogs can recognise more than 150 words.
• Dogs can smell human emotions and health conditions.
• Dogs curl up in a ball when they sleep because of a primordial instinct to protect their vital organs.
• Dogs are able to see their own farts.💨
• A dog's nose print is as individual as a human finger print.
• The Norwegian Lundehund is the only dog breed to have 6 toes on each foot.
• Bloodhounds have the ability to trace scents that are over 300 hours old.
• If a guide dog judges that a command is unsafe, it will refuse the command. This is called "intelligent disobedience" .
• Dogs have about 1700 taste buds, but cats only have 473.

Cats    🐱

• Cats treat humans like they would another cat, whereas dogs perceive humans as different from themselves.
• Cats rub their faces against objects to claim them as their territory.
• Cats have more than 100 different vocal sounds.🎧
• Most cats are lactose intolerant, and shouldn't be given cow's milk because they can't digest it.
• A cat can jump approximately 7x the height of it's tail.
• Cats cannot taste anything sweet.🍨
• A cat's heart beats nearly twice as fast as a human's heart.
• Cats instinctively prefer to drink from a water source away from their food bowl, because in the wild water next to their kill may be contaminated.
• Cats have a better sense of hearing than dogs.
• Cats that don't bury their poop are claiming their authority.
• 65%-85% of all white cats born with 2 blue eyes are deaf. If a white cat is born with just one blue eye, only the hearing on that side is impaired.
• Cats bring back dead animals because they see you as a bad hunter, and don't want you to starve.🐀
• Cats decided to live with humans and domesticated themselves.
• A cat's nose has a unique ridged pattern, much like a human fingerprint.
• Cats are less likely to be injured if they fall from greater heights, because their bodies relax, slowing them down and protecting them from the impact.
• A cat can recognise it's owner's footsteps from hundreds of feet away.👣
• Cats can smell their own scent from up to a mile away, so a litter box left outside can help them to find their way home.
• Cats spend around 30% of their waking hours grooming themselves.
• Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva during grooming as they do through urination.
• If a cat doesn't have a specific gene, it won't react to the effects of catnip.

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