
- If you give your dog a fancy name, it’s not for your dog but for your pride. You’ll end up using a nickname.
- Owning two dogs is no more work than owning one, but three dogs is hard work.
- Pay no more then half of the retail price for a used kennel.
- Figure on 1 pound of dry dog food for every 30 pounds of dogs.
- In a suburb of medium density, a dog’s bark can be heard in 200 surrounding houses — or by 800 people.
- Anything over 45 minutes seems like forever to your dog. You will be greeted as enthusiastically coming back from a two-hour shopping trip as you will coming back from a two-day vacation.
- A stray dog who is afraid of people will trust the people associated with the dogs it plays with.
- The old rule — multiplying a dog’s age by 7 to find the equivalent human age — is fallacious. A dog is able to reproduce at 1 year and has reached full growth by 2 years. To calculate a dog’s age in human terms, count the first year at 15, the second year as 10, and each year after that as 5.
- If a dog tolerates gentle handling between its toes, it probably is suited for children.
- If two dogs are headed for a fight and they appear about evenly matched, the dog on his home turf will win easily.
- If you want to be friends with somebody else’s dog, let the dog make the first move, and don’t be too quick to respond.
- It costs $1.50 a day to feed and care for a sled dog.
- A kennel should be two times the length of the dog you are building it for. Measure the dog from its nose to the tip of its tail.
- The best time for taking a puppy from its litter — psychologically and physically — is when it is 49 days old.
- The first musher to reach the town of Iditarod — the halfway point — in the Alaska Iditarod sled race will not win the race.
Source: DogHause

- On the first day of creation, God created the dog.
- On the second day, God created man to serve the dog.
- On the third day, God created all the animals of the Earth to serve as potential food for the dog.
- On the fourth day, God created honest toil so that man could labor for the good of the dog.
- On the fifth day, God created the tennis ball so that the dog might or might not retrieve it.
- On the sixth day, God created veterinary science to keep the dog healthy and the man broke.
- On the seventh day, God tried to rest, but He had to walk the dog.