Dog facts and facts about dogs, from court-admissible hounds to the nights that took three of them.
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Prairie dogs, those little pups popping in and out of holes on vacant lots and rural rangeland, are talking up a storm. They have different "words" for tall human in yellow shirt, short human in green shirt, coyote, deer, red-tailed hawk and many other creatures.
The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. It was developed by Western Union to Test telex/twx communications
"Mudpuppies, also called waterdogs, are one of only a few salamanders that make noise. They get their name from the somewhat embellished notion that their squeaky vocalizations sound like a dog's bark."- national geographic
As of April 2010 you can visit Google and type in "can i get" and see the auto-suggestion of.... "can i get pregnant from a dog!" The Google suggest feature is intended to suggest the most likely search given the current term based on actual search volume! Let's hope it's malfunctioning in this case.
The answer is of course, "NO"! Why? According to wikianswers dog sperm can penetrate a human egg but the egg will die immediately because the male & female chromosomes don't match. As a general rule different animal species can not produce offspring. However, some animals have been to known to have virgin births!