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Dogs have sweat glands on their paws to help regulate their body temperature.

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New puppies have heat sensors in their noses to help find their moms while their eyes and ears are closed.

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Dalmatians are completely white at birth.

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Wolves and dogs can mate to produce fertile offspring.

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Dogs often bury bones so that they can dig them up at some moment in the future when they are hungry.

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Boxers are so named because of their manner of playing using their front paws.

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Stroking dogs and gazing into their eyes releases the "feel good" hormone oxytocin for both people and dogs.

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The fastest breed, the Greyhound, can run up to 44 miles per hour.

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The first dogs were self-domesticated wolves which, at least 12,000 years ago, became attracted to the first sites of permanent human habitation.

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The grief suffered after a pet dog dies can be the same as that experienced after the death of a person.

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When dogs have been doing a lot of exercise, they pant. It is not because they are out of breath like a human would be. Dogs have developed the method of losing heat by panting because sweating would not be very efficient due to all the fur.

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Dogs sweat through the pads of their feet.

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The term "dog days of summer" was coined by the ancient Greeks and Romans to describe the hottest days of summer that coincided with the rising of the Dog Star, Sirius.

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Ancient Egyptians revered their dogs. When a pet dog would die, the owners shaved off their eyebrows, smeared mud in their hair, and mourned aloud for days.

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Police dogs can smell human bodies even when they are buried up to 3 meters in the ground.

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