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Worlds largest dog..... The worlds
heaviest as well as longest dog ever recorded was
an Old English Mastiff named Zorba. In 1989, Zorba
weighed 343 lbs and was 8 feet 3 inches long from
nose to tail!
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Worlds tallest dog..... The tallest
dog on record was named Shamgret Danzas. He was
42 inches tall (at the shoulder!) and weighed 238
lbs.
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Worlds smallest dog..... The smallest
dog in history was a tiny Yorkie from Blackburn,
England. At two years of age and fully grown this
little dude was an incredible 2.5 inches tall by
3.75 inches long! He weighed only 4 ounces! HE was
approximately the size of a matchbox.
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Worlds oldest dog..... The oldest
dog that has been reliably documented was an Australian
cattle-dog named Bluey. He was put to sleep at the
age of 29 years and 5 months!
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Worlds Best Drug Sniffing Dogs.....A
US Customs Labrador named "Snag" has made
118 drug seizures worth a canine record $810 million.
The greatest number of drug seizures by dogs is
969 in 1988. IN ONE YEAR! The team of "Rocky"
and "Barco" patrolled the Texas and Mexico
border, alias "Cocaine Alley." They were
so good that Mexican drug lords put a price of $30,000
dollars on their heads.
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All dogs, from the German Shepherd
to the tiny Poodle, are direct descendants of wolves.
They can all breed together and produce fertile
offspring. Technically they are of the same species.
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Dogs can very easily regurgitate.
In fact, after eating wolves can travel significant
distances back to their dens and regurgitate the
food at will to feed their pups!
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Dogs can see color but it is not
as vivid a color scheme as we see. It is much like
our vision at twilight.
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Some authorities estimate that some
dogs sense of olfaction (smelling) is as high as
1 million times greater than ours
