Pet of the Month
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Iris, a Beagle/Basset mix was picked up as a stray a week or so before she had a litter of 9 puppies. The puppies have been adopted and now Iris is ready for a forever home. She's happy to have her figure back and glad to know that she will never again have to spend 10 weeks with 9 puppies! What a tiring job. She was a good mom but enough is enough. She's a sweet dog and deserves a loving 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.
