Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Furry Facts to Know & Tell

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

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March 2023

The name Beagle first appeared in a 1475 English poem called "The Squire of Low Degree" by an unknown author who spelled it "begle.”

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February 2023

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have a Bernedoodle, a cross between a Bernese Mountain Dog and a Poodle.

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January 2023

Greyhounds can run up to 45 miles per hour. And a close second is the Saluki, which can reach speeds of 42 mph.

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December 2022

The American Kennel Club holds more than 22,000 dog events with more than 3 million entries each year.

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November 2022

More than 80% of dogs older than age three have active dental disease.

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October 2022

Dr. Stephanie McGrath, a neurologist at Colorado State University, has found that CBD helps reduce the frequency of seizures in dogs with epilepsy.

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September 2022

In 1922, Ken-L Ration became the first canned dog food in the U.S.

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August 2022

Daro of Maridor, an 11-month-old English Setter, won the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in 1938…

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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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June 2022

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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May 2022

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

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April 2022

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

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March 2022

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

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