It's fact time!

Everyone knows that Irish Wolfhounds are the biggest dogs in the land and that a dog’s brain is specialized for scent, but here are a few quirky and mind-blowing facts that you probably don’t know related to our beloved pups.

1.Dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and gestures, can count up to five and can perform simple mathematical calculations. The average dog is as intelligent as a two-year-old child. (Fact from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/5994583/Dogs-as-intelligent-as-two-year-old-children.html)

2.The most expensive dog in the world is an 11-month-old red Tibetan mastiff called Big Splash who was bought by a chinese multi-millionare for 10 million Chinese yuan/£945,000/$1,513,417 in March 2011.(Fact from http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-7000/most-expensive-dog/)

3.(http://mentalfloss.com/article/28865/who-cleans-after-seeing-eye-dogs)

4.Naki’o lost all four of his feet to frostbite when he was abandoned as a puppy in a foreclosed home. Now Naki'o is a prosthetically enhanced super-animal with awesome superpowers like TURNING YOUR COLD, STONY HEART INTO A MUSHY PILE OF RAW EMOTION.(Fact from http://io9.com/this-dog-has-four-prosthetic-legs-and-oh-my-god-my-hear-487484820)

5.I cannot believe this but did you know that hyenas are not actually dogs, but are more close to cats!!!(fact from http://www.hyaenidae.org/ancient-hyaenas.html)

Thats all i have for today! if you have any interesting facts, please tell me v.i.a the comments below!