Animal Facts
Thirty-three percent of cat owners talk to their pets on the phone or through the answering machine.
Neutering a cat extends its life span by two or three years.
At least 63% of dog owners admit to kissing their dogs. Of these, some 45% kiss them on the nose, 19% on the neck, 7% on the back, 5% on the stomach and 2% on the legs, and 29% list the place they kiss their dog as other.
The theobromine in chocolate that stimulates the cardiac and nervous systems is too much for dogs, especially smaller pups. A chocolate bar is poisonous to dogs and can even be lethal.
A greyhound can reach speeds of up to 41.7 miles per hour.
A 1,200-pound horse eats around seven times its own weight each year.
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
A baby rabbit is called a kitten.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Ants don't sleep.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found in Syria in 1930.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid and thawed and continue living.
Pet parrots can eat virtually any human food except for chocolate and avocados. Both of these are highly toxic to the parrot and can be fatal.
Snakes are immune to their own poison.
The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
The honeybee kills more people world-wide than all poisonous snakes combined.
