Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Furry Facts to Know & Tell
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.”
February 2023
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have a Bernedoodle, a cross between a Bernese Mountain Dog and a Poodle.
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.
December 2022
The American Kennel Club holds more than 22,000 dog events with more than 3 million entries each year.
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.
August 2022
Daro of Maridor, an 11-month-old English Setter, won the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in 1938…
April 2022
The first registered German Shepherd was named Horand von Grafrath and was born in 1895.
March 2022
Dogs are helping archeologists in Croatia sniff out tombs from the Iron Age, roughly 2,500 to 3,000 years old.