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The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts both offer merit badges in dog care.

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Humans have kept dogs as pets for over 12,000 years.

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Puppies are blind, deaf and toothless when born.

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There are an estimated 400 million dogs in the world.

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A puppy is born blind, deaf, and toothless.

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More than half of all U.S. presidents have owned dogs.

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Dogs have no sense of time.

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A person should never kick a dog facing him or her. Some dogs can bite 10 times before a human can respond.

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A dog's nose is wet because it is lined with mucus, which helps to pick up scents.

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Dog’s definitely don’t see like hawks. They have very poor eyesight, but can distinguish movement 10-20 times better than humans.

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Dogs can be trained to detect cancer and other diseases in humans.

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Pregnancy can be prevented by spaying the female dog, this involves removing both the ovaries and the uterus.

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The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts both offer merit badges in dog care.

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Petting a dog can lower your blood pressure.

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The origin of amputating a dog’s tail may go back to the Roman writer Lucius Columella’s (A.D. 4-70) assertion that tail docking prevented rabies.

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