Dog facts *game*

I thought this could be some informative fun. :) Not hard at all, just post one dog fact after someone else.

I'll go first:

*The Otterhound is the rarest breed in AKC.

It is? cool i didn't know that.....

Ummm let's see, something i KNOW is.....

The Labrador Retriever is used for hunting

Cool game! :)

The Siberian Husky's thick coat is actually an insolator for heat and cold.

Herding is a modified prey drive. :)

*Bulldogs were used to fight bulls

I found what looks like a good dog site. This is taken from crazyfordogs.com
Why do dogs bark?:

Dogs bark to say that there is something strange happening and to be alert. In the wild the barking tells puppies to hide and calls the adults over for action. At home, our dog may bark at us or at a burglar. The barking signals that something is happening; once the new arrival has been identified, either a greeting takes place or an attack.

In world war one, thousands of GSDs were forcefully taken from their owners and enrolled in the war.

In the Vietnam war, the US's war dogs prevented over 10,000 casualties. Yet, when the US pulled out of the war, the majority of those brave dogs were euthanized or abandoned due to fear of contaminates coming back to the States, and were labeled by officials as "army surplus."

I learned in depth about this after watching a special documentary on war dogs a few years ago. Might not be the breed specific fact you were looking for, but wolfsoul's last post made me think of it. American soldiers wept as they were interviewed, recalling their wonderful dog companions in the war.

Dogs can smell urine in a mix of 1 part urine and 1 million parts of water!
cool huh!!
Ky and Rio

if a dog swallows a peice of cooked chicken bone, or shards of a glass ordiment, or open staples or something, just soak real cotton balls in something tasty and the dog will eat it up, the cotton wraps itself around the peices and traped then safe inside the cotton, once it passes all the peices will be out and accounted for :P here is the thing I got it from:

> Remedy For Eaten Glass, Cotton Ball Remedy
> (also helpful for cooked chicken bones that dogs get into)
>
> What do you do if your puppy (or mischievous older dog) gets into your
> holiday decorations and eats some of the glass ornaments? This potentially
> lethal mishap can darken even the brightest holiday season.
>
>
> THE PROCEDURE
>
> Before the holiday go to a pharmacy and buy a box of cotton balls. Be
> sure that you get cotton balls not/the "cosmetic puffs" that are made from
> man-made fibers. Also, buy a quart of half-and-half coffee cream and
> put it in the freezer. Should your dog eat glass ornaments, defrost the
> half-and-half and pour some in a bowl. Dip cotton balls into the cream
> and feed them to your dog. Dogs under 10 lbs should eat 2 balls, which you
> have first torn into smaller pieces. Dogs 10-50 lbs-should eat 3-5 balls,
> and larger dogs should eat 5-7. You may feed larger dogs an entire cotton
> ball at once. Dogs seem to really like these strange "treats' and eat them
> readily. As the cotton works its way through the digestive tract it
> will find all the glass pieces and wrap itself around them. Even the
> teeniest shards of glass will be caught and wrapped in the cotton fibers
and
> the cotton will protect the intestines from damage by the glass. Your
> dog's stools will be really weird for a few days and you will have to be
> careful to check for fresh blood or a tarry appearance to the stool. If
> either
> of the latter symptoms appear you should rush your dog to the vet for a
> checkup but in most cases, the dogs will be just fine.
>
> An actual experience: I can personally vouch for the cotton ball
> treatment. While I was at the vet waiting for him to return from lunch a
> terrified woman ran in with a litter of puppies who had demolished a
wooden
> crate along with large open staples. The young vet had taken x-rays, which
> did show each of the puppies had swallowed several open staples. He was
> preparing them for surgery when my wonderful vet came in and said no
> surgery. I watched him wet several cotton bails, squeeze out the water
> and pop them down their throats. Within 24 hours every staple was
accounted
> for. This was a lesson I learned in the mid-1960s and have had to use
> several times on my brats. I wet the cotton bails and smear on some
> liverwurst
> and they bolt it down and ask for more. The cotton always comes out with
> the object safely embedded
>
> Copyright reserved to Sandy Brock. Permission is hereby granted for
> any nonprofit reproduction by any person or group - submitted by Susan
> Colinan Carr>

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Originally posted by Rio and Me
Dogs can smell urine in a mix of 1 part urine and 1 million parts of water!

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Actually that's 60 million parts of water. ;)

the siberian husky was bred in siberia and later moved to alaska, where they were used as endurence dogs for sledding. :D

Ibizan hounds took 30 years to establish because of problems with distemper.

the great dane was bred to hunt bore!!! thats why their ears where cropped, so the bored wouldent rip them off!!! :eek:..

Catahoulas were bred to hunt wild boar in marshes. ;) That's why their feet are very webbed.