Interesting dog facts * 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! * 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! * 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. * Some authorities estimate that some dogs sense of olfaction (smelling) is as high as 1 million times greater than ours. * Argos or Argus, Ulysses hunting dog, was the only creature to recognize the Greek hero. * Laika became the worlds first space traveler. Russian scientists sent the small animal aloft in an artificial earth satellite in 1957. * Irish Wolfhounds rank as the largest dog, and Chihuahuas as the smallest dog. The St. Bernard is the heaviest dog and other breeds range in size between these extremes. * A dog can hear sounds 250 yards away that most people cannot hear beyond 25 yards. The human ear can detect sound waves vibrating at frequencies up to 20,000 times a second. But dogs can hear sound waves that vibrate at frequencies of more than 30,000 times a second. * A dogs heart beats between 70 and 120 times a minute, compared with a human heart which beats 70 to 80 times a minute. * The oldest reliable age recorded for a dog is 29 years, 5 months for a Queensland heeler called Bluey in Victoria, Australia. The average dog lives to around 15 years of age.
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