Dogs sometimes fake being sick to get attention.
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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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Dogs can make about 100 different facial expressions.
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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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One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the phone.
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The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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