Nine (9) amazing facts about dogs
11th of April 2022
1. Petting our dogs or just looking at them releases oxytocin
Oxytocin also known as the love hormone is the same hormone that helps bond a mother and child. Studies have shown that there is an increase of oxytocin in both the dog and the owner after any interaction involving long gazes followed by stroking and cuddling. So, before thousands of years ago we fell in love and we're still in love.
2. Ten thousand to one hundred thousand times more acute sense of smell
Dogs can literally see through their nose. They experience the world by scent. Apart from explosives, drugs and so on, they can smell feelings and even ailments in humans from cancer to diabetes. They can even smell the past.
When you come back home and your dog sniffs you from head to toe it's because he wants to know where you've been and what you've been doing. Preventing it from sniffing someone or something he's interested in is like blindfolding in a way
3. Dogs can sense the Earth's magnetic field
Somewhere inside them, there is a hidden compass. Studies have shown dogs spin and turn before they relieve themselves because they prefer to excrete with their body aligned along the north-south axis they just don't like West alignment.
4. More than twelve (12) separate muscles that control the movement of the ears
They can locate a sound source in only six hundredths of a second by using their swivelling ears like radar dishes. They can perceive frequencies almost twice that of human ears and they can also hear sounds approximately four times farther away than humans.
One of the reasons they don't like the rain is that the amplified sound hurts their sensitive ears.
5. Dogs dream just like we do
During sleep, the brainwave patterns of dogs are similar to that of people. Dogs dream doggy things so pointers will point at dream birds, and Dobermans will chase dream burglars. My dog Apollo will steal dream food off the kitchen counter and eat it while crawling at imaginary dreamed predators... lol!
6. The first sense a dog develops is the touch
Puppies are born blind, deaf, and toothless, and their entire bodies are covered with nerve endings that are touch sensitive. While the puppy gains its sense of hearing and smell, it still relies heavily on touch throughout its entire life.
Each dog may have a different level of touch sensitivity thus assuming that any dog will respond positively to any touching in any part of its body is wrong and it can be the cause of many misunderstandings.
7. One female Dog her mate and their offspring can produce 67,000 dogs in only six years which brings us to
8. Millions of Dogs’ populations
They're estimated to be about 900 million Dogs (I don’t know anything, just speculating) in the world, 80% of which are free-range Street Dogs, and the numbers are rising.
9. Fun fact about street dogs
Street dogs adapts to the life on the streets. They have their routine just like us. They sleep in a place they consider home, wake up in the morning, go to work- look for food or go off to regular feeding spots where they meet the volunteers that feed them, come back home, go to sleep and so on.
When you see a stray dog walk as if he's going somewhere that's because he is really going somewhere. City strays even know how to wait for traffic lights to go green, how to walk on the sidewalks and so on.
The stray dogs in Russia have even mastered the complex Moscow subway system and literally commute every morning to get from their suburban places of living to the fat regions of Moscow Center. You must respect them and let them be. Dogs can live among us as civilians because that's what they have evolved to do.
All that you have written is what i have seen myself and i can say it's true. Thet are fantastic animals.