Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.
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The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.
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Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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A man is more likely to get a woman's phone number if he is accompanied by a dog.
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Sergeant Stubby was the only war dog to be promoted to sergeant through combat in WWI. He saved his regiment from surprise mustard gas attacks, found and comforted the wounded, and even once caught a German spy by the seat of his pants, holding him there until American Soldiers found him.
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