They can understand about 150-200 words, including signals and hand movements with the same meaning as words.

Dogs are about as smart as a two- or three-year-old child.

This is not to say that cats do not talk to other cats or in some cases scream if they are fighting. They reserve this sound for getting attention (not to mention food) from humans. The mucus attracts and catches more chemical scent particles in the air. Dogs’ wet noses help them smell better.The only other animals that walk this way are giraffes and camels. When cats walk, their left front leg moves in tandem with their left back leg, and their right legs do the same.A ferret’s sense of smell is like a dog smelling a fly two-miles away. While humans have about five million scent receptors in their noses, a bloodhound has up to three hundred million. A dog’s sense of smell is up to one hundred thousand times more sensitive than a human’s.They begin to change color about two weeks after their eyes open. This is an ear infection that leads to the ear canal swelling shut creating a very painful ailment for the dog.

Cocker Spaniels, Pugs, and Shar Pei’s can development what is called Otitis Externa.

Dogs with long floppy ears are more prone to ear infections.

This leaves them 1 hour to spend with you, their owner. They eat, do their business, chase the dog, and watch squirrels for 3 hours. They are only awake 6-8 hours a day, if that, so 30% would be about 2 hours, leaving around 4 hours.

Cats spend 30% of their waking hours grooming themselves.

With that in mind, a seven-year old cat has only been awake for two years of its life.

Cats spend 16-20 hours of each day sleeping.

A Cheetah can run as fast as 75 mph for short spurts. Greyhounds are the fastest dog and can run at speeds of 45 mph. For feral or wild cats, there are TNR (trap, neuter, return) programs to decrease the population growth. A perfect reason to ensure your cat is spayed/neutered.

A single pair of cats and their kittens can produce as many as 420,000 kittens in just 7 years.

A dog can locate the source of a sound in 1/600 of a second and can hear sounds four times farther away than a human can. This specificity of motion helps the dog pinpoint the origins of sounds much faster than a human can.

It takes eighteen muscles to move a dog’s ear.

A new born kitten heartbeat is 220 – 260 beats per minute. The human heart beats 60-80 beats per minutes.Dog and cat noses have unique ridged patterns similar to that of human fingerprints.The structure of the faces of Pugs, Boxers, and Bulldogs makes them more prone to respiratory problems, dental problems, and other health issues. Dogs with squashed faces have more health problems.Feeding milk to a cat can encourage stomach upset and diarrhea so even though you think a cat would like a nice bowl of milk, this would be a bad idea. Like most mammals, cats lose the ability to digest dairy after infancy. Dogs can see in color, though they most likely see colors like a color-blind human (shades of grey and do not see blues and reds).

If you are reading this, chances are you share your life with a dog or cat, yet do you really know about your pet? Here are some fun, little known facts about dogs and cats.

Cats fighting sounds