Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

This month’s issue is supported in part by SF Animal Medical Center and dog lovers like you.

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July 2022

A dog with normal hearing can locate the source of a sound in 1/600 of a second.

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A legend in Somerset, England, claims that the ghost of a black dog named Gurt helps guide lost travelers and protect children.

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

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

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