Found an interesting list of 28 Dog Facts That Might Surprise You
Here are a few:
Number 4 - dogs prefer playing 'keepings-off' rather than 'fetch'. No surprises there for me! Penny LOVES that.
Number 11 did surprise me - it says that body harnesses encourage dogs to pull.
Number 23. Some dogs lick their paws and then rub their paws on their head to clean themselves, much like a cat! Yess!! I've seen Penny doing this and I thought I was imagining things...
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It was interesting....we're running into a problem with this one since the time change:
20. Dogs are creatures of habit. They like familiarity and form expectations and schedules.
Mum can't seem to keep us from waking her at 4:00 AM, BOL! Woofs, Johann
Ohhhhhh!! Fin-a-a-ll-y I figure out what BOL is!! Now I'm laughing...
Talking of time change: Penny has had a hard time with it too, but at last she's realised it's not going to go away - her humans are going to keep staggering out of bed bleary-eyed an hour earlier.
I like your time change better - an hour of extra sleep - if the dogs don't wake you...
Number eleven doesn't surprise me at all. After all, when I put my dog in a harness I want him to pull. It means it's time for skijoring! Alaskan dogs know that the harness is about pulling (and they can really get their strength into it) and the collar is for not pulling.
I had a quick search on 'skijoring' - sounds like fun but I think you'd have to be sure the dogs would stop when you wanted them to!!
There's a bit of cross-country skiing here but it's up in the high country and I've never heard of anyone doing skijoring. If the change in the climate doesn't take away our snow altogether maybe the sport will reach here one day.
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