In Today's Issue
Dog Appreciation Day
Albert
Doggy Facts
Random Joke of The Day
That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing
Finish with a Song
Dog Appreciation Day
Man's Best Friend
Often known as man's best friend, dogs were the first animals to be domesticated by humans and they were often used for guarding property, herding stock, and for hunting game. Today, dogs are used as companions and are considered to be a member of the family in many parts of the world.
The unofficial holiday is also sometimes called World Dog Day, National Dog Appreciation Day, or International Dog Day.
How to Celebrate?
- Adopt a dog and give it a loving home.
- If you have a dog, treat them with their favourite treats.
- If you are unable to have a dog in your family, celebrate the day by donating your time and money to the local animal and dog shelter.
Albert
My furry best pal
who sits on my lap
brown eared but mostly white
My little chap
he has an eyepatch
but sails no sea
apart from the ones
He build from his pee
he growls and he snarls
He barks and he yips
and when the postman arrives
its the apocalypse
He annoys me sometimes
when he barks at the telly
and when he lets one go
It's silent but smelly
But I love my little dog
despite all his crimes
Because without him in my life
It would no longer rhyme
A portrait of my doggy, I did it with pastels and water colour,,,
Doggy Facts
(source cesarsway.com)
- Your dog is as smart as a 2-year-old toddler.
There’s a reason your tot and your pup get along so well: they speak the same language. Or at least, they likely understand roughly the same number of words and gestures — 250!
- Dogs and cats both slurp water the same way.
This may be hard to believe since dogs are such messy drinkers, but just like cats, our canine friends bend the tip of their tongue and raise liquid in a column up to their mouths.
- Your dog does have a sense of time — and misses you when you’re gone.
If you think your dog knows when it’s time for dinner or a walk, you’re right! Dogs pick up on our routines and habits, and they also sense how much time has passed. One study showed how dogs responded differently to their owners being gone for different lengths of time.
- Your dog’s whiskers help him “see” in the dark.
Okay, it’s not quite night-vision or a super power, but those whiskers pick up on even subtle changes in air currents, providing your pup with information about the size, shape, and speed of things nearby. This allows your dog to better sense approaching dangers or prey — even at night.
- Dogs only have sweat glands in their paws.
More specifically, they are found between their paw pads. That’s why it can help to wet the bottom of their feet on a hot day, and it’s also why dogs rely on panting as a means of cooling down.
- On average, a dog’s mouth exerts 320 pounds of pressure.
The tests were done on a German shepherd, American pit bull terrier, and Rottweiler. In comparison, human beings exert 120 pounds, white sharks exert 600 pounds, and crocodiles exert a whopping 2,500 pounds! Dogs also have ten more adult teeth than humans — 42 versus 32.
- Your one year-old pup is as physically mature as a 15-year-old human.
Of course, different breeds age a little differently. Large dogs age faster than small ones.
- Your dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 to 10 million times better than yours.
Depending on the breed, your dog has between 125 million to 300 million scent glands — compared to only 5 million for humans. And the part of your dog’s brain that controls smell is 40 times larger than yours — that’s true, even though the canine brain is much smaller than the human, relative to size. A human’s brain is about 1/40th of their body weight while a dog’s brain is only 1/125th. Don’t feel too smug, though — an ant’s brain is 1/7th its body weight.
- Dogs can hear 4 times as far as humans.
Puppies may be born deaf, but they quickly surpass our hearing abilities. Dogs can also hear higher pitched sounds, detecting a frequency range of 67 to 45,000 hertz (cycles per second). The human range is from 64 to 23,000 hertz. In both dogs and humans, the upper end of hearing range decreases with age.
- Your dog can smell your feelings.
Your pup can pick up on subtle changes in your scent, which can help him figure out how you are feeling — such as by smelling your perspiration when you become nervous or fearful. It’s also likely how dogs can detect certain diseases or know that a household member is pregnant.
Random Joke of the Day
My mum walked in my room & said "You'll go blind if you do that" I was so embarrassed, I dropped my binoculars & missed the eclipse
That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing
Houseflies don’t allow their short lifespans (14 days) to hinder their musical abilities. They always hum in the key of F.
Finish with a Song
Given the theme this is the Baha Men and Who Let the Dogs Out, released
in 2000.
Neville, dogs knowing time. When our daughter was about ten, we moved to South Elmsall, to take over the Hardware Shop, she went to the local school, every day at three o'clock Rusty would go sit in the front of the window display, fixing his eyes on the corner he knew she would come around at 3.30 p.m., no amount of tapping on the glass by passers by or people who knew he would be there, could distract his stare. Of course, when he saw her it was mayhem, as our window displays went flying - we learned to have minimalist displays in that window. We used to put a card by him saying "He is a real dog." We used to get fed up of people asking about him. He was a Lhasa Apso, a lion coloured one, a;so the best dog we ever had, He died of Cancer at the age of seventeen and a half years, he was both deaf an blind,but you would not have known it, he remained his happy and active self. Lots of other Lhasa Apso's appeared as people fell in love with the fantastic breed.
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