The first guide dogs for the blind were trained in the 1750s at a Paris hospital.

The first registered German Shepherd was named Horand von Grafrath and was born in 1895.

Dogs are helping archeologists in Croatia sniff out tombs from the Iron Age, roughly 2,500 to 3,000 years old. 

The Greek word for hunter is κυνηγος (kinigos), which means “dog-leader.”

Actress Selma Blair, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2018, recently announced she has a service dog named Scout,an English Fox Red Labrador.

Puppies and senior dogs dream more often than middle-aged dogs.

The career of the average police dog is about 8 years.

Scientists believe dogs can sense the Earth's magnetic field and use it as a compass. This ability is called magnetoreception.

The expression “hair of the dog” came from an old Scottish belief that putting a dog’s hair in a wound caused by a rabid dog could cure a person of rabies.

If your pooch poops white poo, there could be a couple of reasons including too much calcium in the diet …

President Joe Biden found Champ the German Shepherd (2008-2021) through a breeder. In 2018, the breeder was charged with animal cruelty.

Dog historians believe Bull Terriers were first bred to have a Roman nose around World War I.

Of the dozen dogs on the Titanic, three survived. Two were Pomeranians; the third was a Pekinese.