CAT IN ANCIENT EGYPT; THE EGYPTIAN WORD FOR CAT: IS MAU WHICH MEANS: SEER ANCIENT EGYTIAN BELIVED CATS POSSESSED MYSTICAL POWER AND REVERED THEM WHEN A CAT DIED IT HUMAN FAMILY WOULD SHAVE THEIR EYEBROWS IN A SIGN OF MORING.
L'HISTOIRE DU CHIEN; DOGS WERE PERHAPS THE FIRST DOMESTICATED ANIMALS THEY HAVE LIVED AND WORKED WITH HUMAN FOR AT LEAST 12,000 YEARS, SALUKI LIKE DOGS ARE REPRESENTED SUMERIAN ARTWORK AS OLD AS 7000 B.C.E. GEORGE WASHINGTON IS CONSIDERED THE FATHER OF THE AMERICAN FOXHOUND/ THE COMICAL POODLE CUT WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO AID THE DOGS SWIMMING ABILITED THE POMS WERE LIFT TO KEEP THEIR JONTS WARM/ THE ONLY DOG TO APPEAR IN ONE OF SHAKESPEARES PLAYS WAS BRAB IN " THE GENTLEMEN OF VERDIA
RANDOM DOG FACTS; THE CANARY ISLAND WERE NOT NAMED AFTER BIRDS THEY WERE NAMED AFTER THE LARGE DOGS THAT LIVED THERE IN ANCENT TIMES: CANARIAE ISSULAE=ISLAND OF DOGS/ THE EXPRESSION " THREE DOG NIGHT" IS AN ESKIMO EXPRESSION MEANING THAT IT'S SO COLD OUT THAT YOU HAVE TO HUDDLE WITH THREE DOGS TO STAY WARM/ THE ROMAN'S BELIVED THAT SIRKUS- THE DOGS STAR- ADDED TO THE HEAT OF THE SUN GREATLY FROM THE JULY 3 TO AUGUST 11 CREATING THE PIES CANICULARS- THE DOG DAY OF SUMMER
DOGS OF WAR; MORE THEN 100,000 DOGS SERVED IN THE US MILTARY IN THE 20 CENTURY BUT TO DATE THERE IS NO NATIONAL WAR DOGS MONUMENT 2 NOTABLE WAR DOGS WERE " STUBBY WW1 A STRAY STUBBY WAS SMUGGLED TO FRANCE ABOARD A TROUP SHIP INSERED IN MANY LARGE BATTLES WAS WOUNDED CAPTURED A GERMAN SPY SINGLE PAWEDLY LOCATE WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND IN ONE INSTANCE ALERTED HIS SOLDIERS TO A SUPPOSE MUSTARD GAS ATTACK HE IS THE MOST DECORATED WAR DOG IN U.S. HISTORY/ CHIPS WW11 DURING HE INVASION OF SICILY CHIPS STORMED AN ENEMY MACHINE GUN PILLBOX CORNERTING 4 SOLDIERS LATER THAT NIGHT HE HELPED CAPTURE 10 MORE HE WAS AWARDED THE PUPLE HEART AND THE SILVER STAR FOR VALOR
DOGS RECORDS; THE HEAVEST DOGS ON RECORED WAS AN OLD ENGLISH MASTIFF NAMED ZORBA WHO WEIGHED 343 POUNDS AND MEARSUREING 8 FEET AND 3 INCHES FROM HEAD TO TAIL IS ALSO THE LONGEST DOG ON RECORDED AS WELL/ THE SMALLEST DOG EVER RECORED AS A YORKIE FROM BLACKBURN ENGLAND AT 2 YEARS OLD HE WAS ONLY 2.5 INCHES HIGH AND 3.75 INCHES LONG HE TIPPED THE SCALES AT JUST 4 OUNCES/ THE OLDEST DOG RELIABLE RECORED WAS BLUELY AND AUSTRALIAN CATTLE DOG WHO LIVED FOR 24 YEARS AND 5 MONTH ALMOST 20 OF THOSE YEAR SPENT IN WORK
DOGGIE PHYSIOLGY; DOGS ARE NOT TOTALLY COLOR BLIND THEY CAN DISTINGUISH BETWEEN BLUE , YELLOW, AND GRAY BUT MAY NOT SEE RED AND GREEN SIMILAM TO OUR COLOR REGISTRATION AT TWLIGHT/ DOG POSSES ONE OF THE BEST NOSES IN NATURE WHILE HUMAN HAVE ABOUT 5 MILLION OLFACTORY CELLS DOG CAN HAVE AS MANY AS 225 MILLION WHERE WE SMELL SOUP COOKING A DOG VERY WELL MAY BE ABLE TO DISCERN THE INDIVDUAL INGREDENT COOKING IN THE SOUP/ IN ADDITON TO PANTING DOGS REGULATE THEIR BODY TEMERATURE BY SWEATING THROUGH THE PAD OF THERE FEET.