5 Things You Didn't Know About Your Dog | AllTop5s.com

Five Things You Didn't Know About Your Dog | AllTop5s.com

5 Things You Didn’t Know about Your dog...

5) Nose prints
4) 2 Years old baby
3) Tail wagging
2) Jealousy
1) Share food

5 Things You Didn’t Know about Your dog…

5) Your dog nose prints are as unique as human fingerprints, and can be used to prove identity. I wonder how would you manage to stick your dog’s face in some kind of ink without making a mess in the room.

4) Your dog is as smart as a two-year-old baby. According to canine researcher and author Stanley Coren, a 2 years old child and a dog are about on par when it comes to brains. He also explained that man's best friend can count, understand over 150 words, and even trick people or other dogs in his favor, to get treats. Intelligence varies based on breed. Border collies are known as the smartest dogs.

3) Your dog’s tail wagging has its own language. If your dog excitedly wags his tail, you may think that he's happy to see you, right? Not necessarily. According to Discovery.com, dogs wag their tails to the right when they're happy and to the left when they're frightened. Wagging his tail low means they're insecure and rapid tail wagging accompanied by tense muscles or dilated pupils can signal aggression.

2) Your dog feel jealousy. A 2008 study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that when a dog saw another dog get a treat for the same trick they’d been performing unrewarded, the unrewarded dog becomes agitated, scratching themselves and avoiding the gaze of the rewarded dog.

1) We all love to share food with our dogs, and there are a lot of items that are perfectly safe to feed! But there are plenty of items that dogs should not have. We might think all meat is good for our dogs, since it’s the main part of our diet. But very fatty meats such as bacon or sausage can actually lead to upset stomachs, obesity, and pancreatic.