Useless Knowledge about Dogs: Curious facts about dogs - knowledge for children and adults

By Mia Mirillia

Did you know that ... 
- dogs show their emotions by the direction of their tail wagging?
- some dogs have blue tongues?
- the oldest dog has lived the equivalent of 210 human years?
- some animals keep dogs as pets?

Few things bring as much joy as the look of a loving, loyal dog. The world of four-legged friends consists of all kinds of incredible, curious and funny details. Get to know 200 of these facts in this book and experience completely new impressions of the dogs of the world. 

Useful or useless knowledge? 
Facts, amazing and funny

In this book, dog lovers can expect useful and useless knowledge about our faithful four-legged friends from all over the world. Find out more about

- Canine behavior
- Strange laws
- Dog holidays
- Dealing with dogs in other cultures
- Dogs in history
- Tremendous dog records
... and much more from the world of our four-legged friends.

With an additional dog quiz to solve

In addition to 200 facts, a large quiz with 60 questions about all these curious facts awaits you. Test your previously collected knowledge or challenge friends and acquaintances and show who has the most knowledge about man's most faithful animals.

An ideal gift for dog lovers and those who want to become one

Give yourself new impressions of your favorite house wolf. Or make a loved one who has a heart for dogs very happy. With this book you can make everyone, from dog beginners to dog professionals, very happy with a concentrated collection of useful and useless knowledge.

Click on "Buy now" and make yourself or a loved one very happy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marcus Jungnickel
• Release date: Nov 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9791222472409

Book preview

Table of contents

Amazing behaviors

Wet dogs can lose up to 70% of the moisture in their coat by shaking themselves vigorously.

Dogs have the intelligence of a small child aged around 2-2.5 years.

Dogs are able to memorize up to 250 words. On average, a dog, across all breeds, memorizes around 165 words.

The smartest of all dog breeds are Border Collies.

Afghan Hounds are considered to be the dog breed with the lowest intelligence - measured in terms of learning ability.

Dogs' senses of smell and hearing are far superior to those of humans. Dogs can distinguish a million smells, whereas humans can only distinguish around 10,000.

Dogs can count up to the number five. They are also able to calculate simple mathematical problems such as 1 + 2 and recognize incorrect results.

Dogs can react to up to 47 different gestures.

Dogs are not capable of feeling guilt.

Dogs have a red-green weakness: they cannot recognize shades of green. The color red looks like yellow to dogs.

Dogs have a field of vision of around 240 degrees. This originally helped a lot when hunting and surviving in the wild.

Most puppies are born with blue eyes.

TV commercials for dog food and toys often use high-frequency sounds so that dog owners' pets react to them.

Dogs have three eyelids. The third is called the nictitating membrane and is used for the additional production of tear fluid.

As with humans, the eye color of dogs changes after birth.

When in direct eye contact