Today we present you nineteen interesting and curious facts about dogs. If you own a dog its a must read. If not still a must read! So fact number one:
今天為您獻上19條關於狗狗的趣聞怪談。有狗無狗者必讀！讓我們看看第一條吧：
❖ 1. Dogs were the first to jump off a parachute, not humans.
➙人類史上首個跳降落傘的是狗狗而不是人。
❖ 2. Pointing: Dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand pointing.
➙手勢：狗狗和大象是僅有的兩種可以本能理解手勢的動物。
❖ 3. Dogs can learn language: Most dogs can learn 150 words, while the smartest dog can understand up to 250 words.
➙狗狗能夠學習語言：大多數狗狗可以學會150個詞，而最聰明的狗狗可以學會250個。
❖ 4. Obama was eating dogs: When Obama was living in Indonesia, he ate snake meat, dog meat and roasted grasshoppers quite often.
➙歐巴馬吃狗肉：當歐巴馬在印尼居住時，他吃蛇肉、狗肉，還經常烤蝗蟲吃。
❖ 5. Pit Bulls were once known as "nanny dogs" because of how kind and protective they were of children.
➙比特犬曾被稱作為“保姆狗”，因為它們對小孩非常友善且具有保護力。
❖ 6. In German, 'dogging' means jogging with your dog.
➙德語中‘dogging’（追蹤）意思是和狗狗一起慢跑。
❖ 7. Dogs can fake: Dogs will sometimes fake being sick to get attention.
➙狗狗會假裝：狗狗有時會假裝生病以獲得關注。
❖ 8. Dogs' brains have gotten larger and they've have gotten smarter relative to cats largely because dogs are more social.
➙狗狗的大腦比喵咪的更大相對也更聰明，主要是因為狗狗更善於交際。
❖ 9. There is a company that sells beer specifically created for dogs.
➙有一家公司售賣專門為狗狗製造的啤酒。
❖ 10. Dogs will yawn in order to express that there is a conflict of interest between their own ideas or desires and those of their owners.
➙狗狗會通過打哈欠來表達，其自身的想法或意願與主人的相衝突。
❖ 11. Abraham Lincoln's dog, Fido, was assassinated too.
➙亞伯拉罕·林肯的狗狗菲多也是被暗殺而亡的。
❖ 12. Human yawns are contagious not only to other people, but to dogs, as well.
➙人打哈欠不僅會傳染給人，也會傳染給狗狗。
❖ 13. Raisins' grapes are toxic to dogs.
➙葡萄乾對狗狗來說有毒。
❖ 14. The Kong dog toy is based on part of a Volkswagen bus suspension that the creator's German Shepherds loved to play with.
➙Kong牌狗狗玩具設計靈感一部分是源於設計師的德國牧羊犬愛玩的大眾客車懸架裝置。
❖ 15. A German Shepherd guard dog in a Belgrade Zoo once fought and defeated an escaped jaguar and in doing so saved the life of a zoo employee.
➙貝爾格勒動物園的一隻德國牧羊犬看門狗曾與一隻出逃的美洲豹竭力奮戰並獲勝，挽救了一位動物園員工的性命。
❖ 16. In 1991 a girl was found in Ukraine who had lived with and been raised by dogs for most of her life.
➙1991年在烏克蘭發現了一個小女孩，她大部分時間與狗一起生活還是由狗撫養長大的。
❖ 17. A dog had over 1 million delta airline miles in his life & had his own frequent flier card.
➙有一隻狗一生的飛行里程達到了1百萬英里，它還有自己的飛行常客卡。
❖ 18. The most aggressive breed of dogs = Dachshunds.
➙侵略性最強的犬類=臘腸犬。
❖ 19.If a guide dog judges that a command is unsafe, it will refuse the command. This is called "intelligent disobedience".
➙如果一個導盲犬認為一項命令是不安全的，那它會拒絕執行此項命令。這叫作“智能反抗力”。
文章來源：關於狗狗的19大事實，你知道幾個？
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