Pit Bull

Pit bull is one of the most killed dog breeds in shelters

800 cats and dogs are euthanized every hour because there aren't enough homes

Horrifying isn't it. 

11 Facts about Animal Cruelty

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1. In many circuses, wild and exotic animals are trained through the use of intimidation and physical abuse. Former circus employees have reported seeing animals beaten, whipped, poked with sharp objects and even burned to force them to learn their routines!
2. Elephants who perform in circuses are often kept in chains for as long as 23 hours a day from the time they are babies.
3. More than 25 million vertebrate animals are used in testing in the United States each year. When invertebrate animals are thrown into the mix, the estimated number rises to as high as 100 million.
4. By 2022, 22% of all species will be extinct if no action is taken.
5. If you live in Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Rhode Island, Illinois, Virginia, Oregon, New York, New Jersey and Vermont you have the legal right to refuse to participate in dissection in class! In Louisiana, there is a State resolution and in Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland and New Mexico, there are Departments of Education resolutions in place that allow you to refuse to dissect, although it hasn’t yet become a law.
6. Dog fighting and cock-fighting are illegal in all 50 states.
7. It is estimated that on average it takes 1,000 dogs to maintain a mid-sized racetrack operation. New greyhounds are continually entering the system to replace greyhounds that grade-off due to injury, age or poor performance. There are currently over 30 tracks operating in the United States.
8. Tens of thousands of wild and domesticated horses from the United States are cruelly slaughtered every year to be used for horse meat in Europe and Asia. Since the last horse slaughter plants in the U.S. were closed in 2007, thousands of horses have been shipped to Canada and Mexico for slaughter.
9. Many studies have found a link between cruelty to animals and other forms of interpersonal violence.
10. Neglect and abandonment are the most common forms of companion animal abuse in the United States.
11. A fur coat is pretty cool—for an animal to wear. Eighteen red foxes are killed to make one fox-fur coat, 55 minks to make a mink coat.

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Wolf and Dog

A wolf’s tail hangs, while a dog’s tail tends to stick up


•    A wolf’s pawprint can be bigger than a human hand.
•    A wolf’s tail hangs, while a dog’s tail tends to stick up.
•    A dog’s ear are pointed a wolf’s are rounded.
•    Every wolf pack has a leader. He’s called the alpha male.

Wolf Woof

According to scientists, wolves have a unique way of communication...

BARK – Warning!/Danger!

BARED TEETH – Don’t come any closer.

WHIMPER – Mother does this to calm pups.

HEAD AND EARS UP HIGH – I’m the boss.

EAR BACK AND SQUINT – I’m afraid.

DANCE AND BOW – Want to play?

HIGH WHINE – Puppies, come here!

WAG JUST THE TIP OF THE TAIL – I’m about to attack.

TAIL BETWEEN THE LEGS - You’re the boss

WOFL HOWL – Everyone! Bring the pack together!

Newborn Animals

BABY HARP SEALS are born with white fur, which acts as a camouflaging layer for them

NEWBORN DUCK-BILLED PLATYPUSES have teeth to help them to break out of their eggs..and then these teeth disappear after.

NEWBORN ARMADILLOS have soft shells which then harden into bone

NEWBORN SKUNKS are hairless...but can still spray

NEWBORN BUFFALOES are born without horns. horns grow when the buffaloes are around two months old

Creature Feature

HIPPOS are the only animals that can communicate both underwater and on the ground

KANGAROO RATS talk by stamping their feet

PRAIRIE DOGS have one of the most advanced languages..with more than 100 words

MALE GIRAFFES press their necks together to practice their fighting skills!

Win Win!

THE LARGEST HORSE - a Shire gelding named Samson. in 1850, at the age of four, Samson measured 7 feet 2 inches high (at the shoulder).

THE HEAVIEST HORSE - Samson also won the record for the heaviest horse weighing 3,360 pounds.

THE SMALLEST PONY - Little Pumpkin stood only 14 inches tall and weighed only 20 pounds

THE OLDEST HORSE - Old Bill and english borge horse, he lived for 62 years while a horses' average lifespan is 25 years

THE LONGEST TAIL - Chinook an Amerian palomino had a tail length of 22 feet.

THE LONGEST MANE - 18 feet long and belonging to a California mare called Maude.

THE FASTEST PONY EXPRESS RIDE - lasted 7 days and 17 hours, while carrying President Lincoln's inaugural address.

Sniff Sniff

POLAR BEARS - can smell a seal on the ice 20 miles away. No wonder they're nicknamed "noses with legs."

ARCTIC HARES - can smell dwarf willow leaves beneath several feet of snow.

SQUIRRELS - can smell the tiny acorns they buried the previous autumn

DOGS - can smell one drop of urine in a swimming pool full of water.

Wolves - can smell prey more than a mile away if the wind is right. They can also smell the presence of an animal three days after it's left.

PIGS - can be trained to find truffles - prized edible fungi that grow underground. (Some police departments use pigs to sniff out drugs.)

COONHOUNDS - can smell when a raccoon's track was made, how fast it was traveling, and in what direction.

BLOODHOUNDS - can follow a scent that is four days old.

DOGS - can point out a sick catfish to fish farmers and even smell if there are termites in the house.

Working Animals

Laika was the world's first space traveller. It went on a Russian satellite called Sputnik 2 on November 3rd, 1957.

German shepherds were the first guide dogs, trained by the government to assist blind war veterans

Rats have an extremely good sense of smell. They can detect diseases such as tuberculosis and bladder cancer if you let them sniff laboratory samples. They can diagnose up to 2000 samples and us humans? Only 20. 

Dog Facts!

Newfoundland dogs can swim like an olympic swimmer..they have webbed feet..just like the duck. yup!

The greyhound has the best eyesight

Great Danes can eat up to 8.5 pounds of food a day. yum!

Chinese crested dogs can get acne! 

Warnings

Run when you see..

A striped skunk doing a handstand...spray time!

A bear stand on its hind legs...meal time!

A Musk ox bows its head...stomp time!

A leopard cough...last sound you're gonna hear!

A chimp stops smiling...tag you're it!

A black rhino starts runningg around....animal bullet train!

A female lion stares at you...lunch time!

A hippo shows you its butt....dung time!

Additonal Random Facts

SHEEP - have a built-in instinctto follw the lead ram. IF a ram jumps over a stick and you take away the stick, every sheep after the ram will jump over the place where the stick was.

DONKEYS - have their eyes set in their heads so that they can see all of their feet at once

Run Like the Wind

1) Cheeta (71 mph)
2) Antelope (57mph)
3) Wildebeest (50 mph)
4) Lion (50 mph)

Random Random

HORSES - breathe only through their nostrils.
COWS -12 or more cows are know as a "flink"
GOATS - have four toes on each hoof but only two touch the ground
SHEEP - can recognize as many as 50 other sheep by sight
PIGS - are very clean. They always poop away from where they live.
MULES - always lift their tails befoore they bray.
HORSES - the underside of a horse's foot is called a "frog"

Top 10 Dog Names

1) Sam
2) Max
3) Lady
4) Bear
5) Buddy
6) Maggie
7) Bailey
8) Jake
9) Molly
10) Saddie

Heaviest Land Mammals (average)

1) African elephants (16,500lbs)
2) Hippo (9900 lbs)
3) White Rhino (8000lbs)
4) Giraffe (4200 lbs)
5) Bison (2200 lbs)

Longest Life Expectancy

1) Box turtle (100)
2) Human
3) African Elephant (40)
4) Bear (25)
5) Horse (20)
6) Gorilla (20)
7) Polar Bear (20)
8) White Rhino (20)
9) Black Bear (18)
10) Lion (15)

Wild Medicine

Chimpanzees get rid of parasites by using the leaves of sunflowers and rolling it around in their month then swallowing it. They don't like the taste of it because they make faces when they eat it but they apparently know the medicinal effects of the leaves.

African Elephants risk their lives to get into caves in Mount Elgon (volcano) to chew the rocks, which contain many minerals. The sodium is essential for their health.

Capuchin Monkeys in Costa Rica uses a type of chilli to clean themselves, which removes all sort of insects and acts as a painkiller to insect bites

Rats can't throw up

Creature Feature- Babies

ZEBRAS- born with brown stripes

PORCUPINES - born with soft quills and harden an hour after birth

CAMELS - born without humps

EMPEROR PENGUINS - born brown

POLAR BEARS - weigh about one pound

GIANT PANDA - born the size of a stick of butter

KANGAROO - born smaller than your finger

FROGS - born with gills

ELEPHANTS - babies suck their trunks like human babies suck their fingers