Dogs see only black, white and gray. They can hear much better than humans, though. They can hear sounds ten times farther away than we can.
Dog Senses
Category: Dogs
What a Dog Can Learn
There was a dog (part collie) who liked to take baths and learned how to turn the water on and off and adjust the faucets to get the right temperature.
Cats and Dogs Quote
“In order to keep a true perspective on one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.” – Dereke Bruce
This quote is quite famous, showing up in a number of quotebases, but no one seems to know who Dereke Bruce is. If you look for him via Google, Yahoo or Amazon, nothing relevant comes up, other than this quote. Yours truly, your author, might be responsible for that. As you may know, I have been publishing insightful and fun trivia for years. I believe I found this quote in a 1980’s vintage Omni Magazine, and first published it in Almanac 1989. In the past several years, it has been picked up and repeated throughout the Internet.
Pets and Coronary Health
A study revealed that after a year, twenty-eight percent of severe coronary-care patients who did not own pets died, but only 5.6 percent of those who did own pets died. It seemed to make no difference whether their pets were horses, birds, dogs or cats.
Animals and Pain
When you see your rambunctious cat tear across the living room, fly through the dining room, then skid across the kitchen linoleum and smash into the fridge, you worry about her. But she gets up and walks away like nothing happened. How is this possible? If you smashed into kitchen appliances like that, you’d be jumping and yelling with pain. Camels, who are often hit hard by their drivers, seem to feel no pain. (I hope so.) Researchers have discovered that their brain chemistry is different. They actually feel less pain than humans. Perhaps this is why dogs can walk barefoot on gravel driveways without hopping and wincing.
Since we don’t know for sure, and since any pain purposely inflicted is too much, it is best to treat all animals kindly.
See also: The Insidious Dog Collar.
Animal Lifespans
See also: Catversity, the free online cat university and entertainment sub-site.
Average Lifespans of Animals
Lion = 40 years
Pig = 25 years
Tortoise = 350 years
Clam = 150 years
Whale = 100 years
Eagle = 100 years
Pigeon = 20 years
Cow = 25 years
Crocodile = 300 years
Elephant = 100 years
Mouse (domestic) = 2 years
Mouse (wild) = Less than 1 year
Rat = 2 years
Cat (outdoor) = 2 years
Cat (kept indoors) = 17 years
Dog = 11 years
Rabbit = 5 years
Horse = 30 years
