Fun Facts About Animals - Week 4

The Old English Sheepdog is a large dog, immediately recognizable by its long, thick, shaggy grey and white coat.

The Old English Sheepdog comes from the very old pastoral type dogs of England.

Barkley from Sesame Street was an Old English Sheepdog.

Both intelligent and agile, Old English Sheepdogs can easily complete any demanding task asked of him by a shepherd or drover.

The Old English Sheepdog is believed to have descended from the Scotch Bearded Collie and the Russian Owtchar.

Cats must have fat in their diet, because they can't produce it on their own.

Pilgrims were the first to introduce cats to North America.

The heaviest recorded cat was called Himmy and weighed 21.3kg. THAT'S 47 POUNDS!!

(Not HImmy but this one's big too)

A purring cat doesn't always mean its happy. Cats also purr if they're in pain.

Maine Coon cat is America's only "natural" breed of domestic feline.

Both humans and cats have identical regions in the brain responsible for emotion.

A cat can jump 5 times as high as they are tall.

Cats have 100 different vocalization sounds.

Cats have 32 muscles in each ear.

Climbing Perch Fish can walk on dry land and even climb trees.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

A Pigeon's feathers weigh more that it's bones.

Horses cannot breathe through their mouths.

Animals & Fish in Antarctica have white blood.

Largest dog recorded, Zorba a 343 lb , 8 feet 3 inches long Old English Mastiff

Wolves have no natural predators, except for humans. Wolves are normally afraid of people, and try to avoid them when ever possible.

The Galapagos tortoise is the largest living species of turtles, weighing in some cases, over 570 pounds.

Ancient Egyptians first kept Ferrets 3,000 years ago

16 hours of sunlight makes Ferrets go into heat.

The carapace or upper shell of the tortoise or turtle is composed of about 50 bones.

A blue whale calf drinks about 130 gallons of milk per day, and gains up to 200 pounds per day

In the United States there has never been a documented case where a healthy wild wolf attacked a human, in fact it is very rare when a wolf even comes near a human.