关于狗狗的19大事实，你知道几个？

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:

今天我们为您献上19条关于狗狗的趣闻怪谈。有狗无狗者必读！让我们看看第一条吧：

Fact 1: Dogs were the first to jump off a parachute, not humans.

事实1：人类史上首个跳降落伞的是狗狗而不是人。

2 – Pointing: Dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand pointing.

2、手势：狗狗和大象是仅有的两种可以本能理解手势的动物。

3. Dogs can learn language: Most dogs can learn 150 words, while the smartest dog can understand up to 250 words.

3、狗狗能够学习语言：大多数狗狗可以学会150个词，而最聪明的狗狗可以学会250个。

4. Obama was eating dogs: When Obama was living in Indonesia, he ate snake meat, dog meat and roasted grasshoppers quite often.

4、奥巴马吃狗肉：当奥巴马在印度尼西亚居住时，他吃蛇肉、狗肉，还经常烤蝗虫吃。

5. Pit Bulls were once known as "nanny dogs" because of how kind and protective they were of children.

5、 比特犬曾被称作为“保姆狗”，因为它们对小孩非常友善且具有保护力。

6. In German, 'dogging' means jogging with your dog.

6、德语中‘dogging’（追踪）意思是和狗狗一起慢跑。

7. Dogs can fake: Dogs will sometimes fake being sick to get attention.

7、狗狗会假装：狗狗有时会假装生病以获得关注。

8. Dogs' brains have gotten larger and they've have gotten smarter relative to cats largely because dogs are more social.

8、狗狗的大脑比喵咪的更大相对也更聪明，主要是因为狗狗更善于交际。

9. There is a company that sells beer specifically created for dogs.

9、有一家公司售卖专门为狗狗制造的啤酒。

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.

10、狗狗会通过打哈欠来表达，其自身的想法或意愿与主人的相冲突。

11. Abraham Lincoln's dog, Fido, was assassinated too.

11、亚伯拉罕·林肯的狗狗菲多也是被暗杀而亡的。

12. Human yawns are contagious not only to other people, but to dogs, as well.

12、人打哈欠不仅会传染给人，也会传染给狗狗。

13. Raisins' grapes are toxic to dogs.

13、葡萄干对狗狗来说有毒。

14. The Kong dog toy is based on part of a Volkswagen bus suspension that the creator's German Shepherds loved to play with.

14、Kong牌狗狗玩具设计灵感一部分是源于设计师的德国牧羊犬爱玩的大众客车悬架装置。

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.

15、贝尔格莱德动物园的一只德国牧羊犬看门狗曾与一只出逃的美洲豹竭力奋战并获胜，挽救了一位动物园员工的性命。

16. In 1991 a girl was found in Ukraine who had lived with and been raised by dogs for most of her life.

16、1991年在乌克兰发现了一个小女孩，她大部分时间与狗一起生活还是由狗抚养长大的。

17. A dog had over 1 million delta airline miles in his life & had his own frequent flier card.

17、有一只狗一生的飞行里程达到了1百万英里，它还有自己的飞行常客卡。

18. The most aggressive breed of dogs = Dachshunds.

18、侵略性最强的犬类=腊肠犬。

19.If a guide dog judges that a command is unsafe, it will refuse the command. This is called "intelligent disobedience".

19、如果一个导盲犬认为一项命令是不安全的，那它会拒绝执行此项命令。这叫作“智能反抗力”。