Pooch-pedia: Facts Your Pooch Never Told You

POOCH-PEDIA Facts your pooch never told you SCIENTISTS AREN’T SURE Did you know... WHEN DOGS WERE FIRST DOMESTICATED BUT IT WAS AT LEAST 15,000 YEARS AGO (Domesticated canine fossils found in France prove this) BUT SOME SCIENTISTS THINK THEY COULD HAVE BEEN DOMESTICATED EVEN EARLIER 15,000 AO00 Anywhere between 15,000 and 140,000 years ago THE EARLIEST DOGS COULD HAVE FOUND SAFETY RELIABLE FOOD BETTER HUNTING WARMTH IN WINTER MANY ADVANTAGES LIVING IN PREHISTORIC HUMAN CAMPS THERE ARE 493 DOG BREEDS RECOGNIZED BY DIFFERENT KENNEL CLUBS 43 MILLION US HOUSEHOLDS OWN DOGS That's 37% of all US households! AND THE U.S. HAS THE HIGHEST DOG POPULATION IN THE WORLD THE AVERAGE COST OF A DOG IN THE US is $775 PER YEAR ONLY 25-40% 3% OF OF HOUSEHOLD PETS STUDIES SHOW AMERICAN PET OWNERS HAVE ARE OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE PET INSURANCE 1 in 4 DOGS DIE OF CANCER 4.7 77% MILLION PEOPLE OF DOG ATTACKS OCCUR FROM A DOG THAT IS OWNED ARE BITTEN BY DOGS EACH YEAR BY A FAMILY MEMBER OR A FRIEND Infographic brought to you by Infographic designed by Paw Digs oBizMedia.com