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Dogs use the Earth’s magnetic
3 fi eld when they’re relieving
themselves.
A new study published in the journal
Frontiers in Zoology suggests that
dogs are sensitive to small variations
in Earth’s magnetic fi eld. Researchers
YOU KNOW? found that under “calm magnetic

field conditions,” dogs preferred to
“excrete with the body being aligned
along the north-south axis,” avoiding
east-west altogether.

Spiked collars were originally
DOGS 4fashioned in ancient Greece

to protect dogs’ throats from wolf
attacks.
A blind man and his guide dog
1hiked the Appalachian Trail.
Bill Irwin, then a 50-year-old medical
technologist and corporate manager
from Burlington, N.C., did not use
maps or a compass. He was blind,
and he relied solely on his German
shepherd guide dog, Orient to
complete 2100 miles journey along
the Appalachian Trail in Maine in
1990.

The world's oldest known
2 breed of domesticated dog is Dogs and cats both slurp water
the Saluki. 5 the same way.
They are believed to have This may be hard to believe since
emerged in 329 B.C. Saluki dogs dogs are such messy drinkers, but
were revered in ancient Egypt, just like cats, our canine friends bend
being kept as royal pets and being the tip of their tongue and raise liquid
mummified after death. in a column up to their mouths.

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