Featured Pet
Urban Cowboy. What a sweetheart! He is one of our special needs dogs although you can't tell by looking. It's what you can't see...the shotgun pellets in his left rear leg and abdomen. Please read about Urban on our virtual shelter page and consider giving him a very special home.
Fun Facts
- A cat's jaws can not move sideways.
- Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
- Armadillos have four babies at a time, always all the same sex. They are perfect quadruplets, the fertilized cell split into quarters, resulting in four identical armadillos
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- The Pug dog is thought to have gotten it's name from looking like the pug monkey.
- A bear has 42 teeth.
- A cat has four rows of whiskers.
- Porcupines float in water.
- Giraffes have no vocal cords.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
- Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
- Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
- A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
- A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the water. They frequently rise to the surface for air.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- No two zebras have the same striped pattern.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- A beaver can hold it's breath for 45 minutes.
- Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards.
- The longest recorded life span of a tapeworm was 35 years!
- Toto's role in The Wizard of Oz was played by a female Cairn Terrier named Terry.
- Dogs do not have an appendix.
- An adult dog has 42 teeth.
- The only sweat glands a dog has are between the paw.
