5 Obscure Facts About Your Dog

You love your dog for good reason. Your loyal and lovable fur baby provides affection and companionship, but dogs are also very interesting animals. Below are obscure facts about dogs that you may find surprising.

Your dog’s “smell area” in the brain is 40 times larger than yours.

Your dog has an amazing ability to identify more odors than you do. The area in the brain responsible for detecting odors is 40 times larger in dogs than humans. This explains why dogs are so fascinated by sniffing everything and anything, and how they’re able to detect smells that you can’t.

Dogs sweat through their paws.

Dogs cool off mostly by panting, but they do sweat an oily substance through their paws. If you dare, sniff your dog’s paw. The combination of sweat and microorganisms makes their paws smell like old corn chips. Yuck!

Your dog can hear further away than you can.

It’s commonly known that dogs hear higher frequencies, which is why dog whistles work. But they can also detect faint sounds from a distance that we aren’t likely to hear.

Dogs can sense time passing.

While your dog might not be able to tell time on a clock, they can tell the difference between one and five hours. This might be why your dog seems to know when it’s time for their daily walk.

Dogs have more eyelids than you do.

Dogs have a third eyelid called a “haw”, which helps protect and lubricate their eyes.