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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

INTERESTING FACTS-10

(1) There are three credit cards for every person in the United States.

(2) Coca-cola was originally green.

(3) Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.

(4) Smartest dogs: 1) border collie 2) poodle 3) golden retriever.Dumbest dog: Afghan

(5) Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

(6) Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

(7) Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up:1 in 2.

(8) City with the most Rolls Royce's per capital: Hong Kong.

(9) State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

(10) Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4.

TEACH YOUR PUPPY A TRICK-8

Crawl

Description
Teach your puppy to crawl - that is, move forward from the 'Lay' position. You can use this trick to let him crawl under a chair, for example, or - as shown in the picture - under a vertical bar.

How to do it
Starting from the 'Lay' position, say 'Crawl', hold a treat in front of your dog's nose and move it a few inches away from him: if he stands up just say 'No, CRAWL!', and start over (make him 'Lay' again). Praise him a lot and give him the treat as soon as he crawls, even a few inches.

Friday, November 14, 2008

INTERESTING FACTS-9

(1) Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.

(2) Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

(3) The phrase "sleep tight" derives from the fact that early mattresses were filled with straw and held up with rope stretched across the bedframe. A tight sleep was a comfortable sleep.

(4) "Three dog night" (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.

(5) Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.

(6) In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

(7) Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since. [It floats in gasoline, too.]

(8) Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

(9) Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

(10) No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

TEACH YOUR PUPPY A TRICK -7

ROLL

It is important that your dog knows the 'Lay' position in order to easily teach this trick.

Description
At you command, the dog will roll over his back (you can teach him to do this even more than once)

How to do it
Starting from the 'Lay' position, say 'Roll Over' and "roll" gently your dog (grab his legs and pull him, or push him from one side so that he makes a complete roll). After he has completed the roll, make him sit, cheer him and give him the treat.

Tips & Tricks
This trick is a quite hard one: your dog will have to lay with his belly up, and not many dogs like this position (it means "I surrender completely to you"...). So if your dog doesn't like to roll over, don't insist too much: there are plenty of other tricks you can teach him! :-)