If never spayed or neutered, a female dog, her mate, and their puppies could produce over 66,000 dogs in 6 years!
Zorba, an English Mastiff, is the heaviest dog on record, weighing 343 lbs at the age of 8 in 1989.
Franklin D. Roosebelt once spent $15,000 to have a destroyer return to the Aleutian Islands and retrieve his Scottie, Fala, who had been accidentally left behind.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the smallest dog on record was a Yorkshire Terrier in Great Britain who, at the age of 2, weighed just 4 ounces.
The only sweat glands a dog has are between the paw pads.
A one-year-old dog is physically as mature as a 15 year-old human.
Plato once said that “a dog has the soul of a philosopher.”
The oldest dog on record was an Australian cattle dog named Bluey who lived 29 years and 5 months. In human years, that is more than 160 years old
