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If you saw my blog, you would have seen my favorite animal. Now that I moved to Chicago, I got the craze for dogs. I got dog wallpaper note books, pictures, posters etc. I’ll tell you a lot of information. If you don’t like dogs, go to the next thing on my blog right away! There are many different kinds of pets. But the most friendly and loving are dogs. Dogs are in many breeds like, German shepherds, Huskies, Poodles, Terriers, Dalmatians, Collies, Golden retrievers, Labradors, spaniels, Australian shepherds, Brittanys, Beagles, Dachunds, and many more. Dogs have been here a long time. Long ago, kings and princes used Bloodhounds and greyhounds for hunting animals and tracking down criminals. Now police officers use German shepherds to bring down criminals and, German shepherds known for their ability of agility and their excellent sense of smell. German shepherds are extremely smart too. Dalmatians are used as fire dogs at fire department. They can smell exactly where fires are and lead the firefighters to it. They are very fast runners too. If you are lonely and are a only child, talk to your parents about getting a dog.

Although dogs are fun to have, they also require a lot of responsibility. They need grooming, baths, somebody has to give it a walk everyday…. You will need to buy toys, bones, food and water. A mother dog usually gives birth 5-7 puppies at a time. Most of the time, bigger dogs have a bigger amount of puppies. A poodle will probably have 1- 4 puppies at a time, while Labradors and golden retrievers might have 5 -16 puppies at a time. In the first few weeks of a puppy’s life, it will depend on its mother’s milk. It does not need any other kind of nutrients to survive.

After four weeks old, a puppy can stop drinking its mother’s milk. Instead of eating solid food immediately, ( the puppies diet from a milk diet to a solid food is a big switch for them) people soak the food in water so it seems more like milk to the puppy. Sometimes a puppies will beg for food because it smells really good but human food can make them sick , especially chocolate, avocados grapes and onions. After the first few months of life, the puppies start chewing things, dogs usually get 42 adult teeth. Dogs have about 1700 taste buds! Some dogs have over a million strands of hair! This is why I love dogs so much.