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Understanding Dogs: A Comprehensive Quiz

This quiz assesses your knowledge about dogs, covering various aspects such as their biology, historical significance, roles in media, and statistics about dog-related incidents.

#Dogs #Animal Biology #Pet Care #Television #History

1 What does the following picture show?  A heavy winter coat with countershading in a mixed breed   A mixed-breed dog   A mixed-breed dog   Ancient Greek black-figure pottery depicting the return of a hunter and his dog. Made in Athens between 550-530 BC, found in Rhodes.

2 What phylum does Dog belong to?

3 What role did Jeremy Gladen play in the TV series Dog?

4 What period do the fossils of the Dog come from?

5 What role did David Fine play in the TV series Dog?

6 What role did Austin E. Greca play in the TV series Dog?

7 What family does Dog belong to?

8 In the UK between 2003 and 2004, there were 5,868 ________ on humans resulting in 5,770 working days lost in sick leave.

9 What role did Joanne Hill play in the TV series Dog?

10 The longest-lived breeds, including Toy Poodles, Japanese Spitz, ________, and Tibetan Spaniels, have median longevities of 14 to 15 years.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the dog called the Miniature Fox Terrier (or Mini Foxie) originated in Australia.
  • since its launch in January 2008, DogsBlog.com has helped to rehome more than six thousand dogs in the United Kingdom.
  • the nematode Capillaria aerophila is a parasite that infests the respiratory system of carnivorous mammals, including dogs and foxes.
  • the Caucasian Shepherd Dog is generally a low activity dog, seemingly lethargic when not working, but extremely agile and convincing when it feels that its family is threatened.
  • the first dog to be named the best at Crufts was Ch. Wishaw Leader (pictured) in 1906.
  • the draughtsboard shark (pictured) has been known to bark like a dog.
  • past Olympic mascots include several bears named Misha, Coal, Howdy and Hidy, and dogs Cobi and Waldi .
  • most of the dogs seen in the 2007 Thai film, Ma-Mha, were strays rescued from shelters and trained specifically for the film.
  • Albert Bridge (pictured) in London is seriously structurally unsound in part because of rotting caused by dog's urine.
  • nematode Angiostrongylus vasorum lives in the hearts of dogs.
  • Fred Gipson was an American author best remembered for creating a fictional dog featured in a book and the classic 1957 movie Old Yeller.
  • grape and raisin toxicity is a potential cause of acute renal failure in dogs.
  • wolf collars with long spikes, now widely adopted by the BDSM community, were originally used to protect dogs from wolf attacks.
  • Pal, owned by animal trainers Frank and Rudd Weatherwax, was the name of the first dog to portray Lassie.
  • Armant is a breed of dog which originated in Egypt.
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