Did you know that dog nose prints are as unique as human finger prints and can also be used to identify them! Here’s a spider fact I bet you didn’t know – tarantulas can live for over 2 years without eating a single thing! Cows from different regions have different “moo” accents. No joke! Strange [...]
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Pet Fact – Week 32
Did you know that dog nose prints are as unique as human finger prints and can also be used to identify them! Here’s a spider fact I bet you didn’t know – tarantulas can live for over 2 years without eating a single thing! Cows from different regions have different “moo” accents. No joke! Strange [...]
Pet Fact – Week 31
Just like humans, British cows moo in accents specific to their region. All polar bears are Irish: they’re descended from brown bears that lived in Ireland over 10,000 years ago. A newborn giant panda weighs less than a cup of tea. A hammerhead shark can be rendered completely immobile for 15 minutes by turning it [...]
Pet Fact – Week 30
Rats breed so quickly that in just 18 months, 2 rats could have created over 1 million relatives. Horses and cows sleep while standing up! Giant Arctic jellyfish have tentacles that can reach over 36m in length. Longer than the height of the Tower of London! Locusts have leg muscles that are about 1000 times [...]
Pet fact – Week 29
Africa petfact – the hippotomus is considered the most dangerous animal. In Africa it is responsible for more human deaths than Lions, Snakes or Crocodiles Dogs have a remarkable sense of smell, they are capable of differentiating odors in concentrations nearly 100 million times lower than humans can. The average life span for a dog [...]
Pet Fact – Week 28
The blue whale is the loudest animal on earth. Haven’t you heard!? The heaviest domestic cat on record isa staggering 21.297 kg Despite the urban myth, uncooked rice will not infact expand in a birds stomach causing it to explode! t Although experts often disagree, there is scientific evidence which shows that the domestication of [...]
Featured Post – Can Dogs Feel Our Emotions
This very interesting piece by Christine Dell’Amore for National Geographic (Published August 8, 2013) explores whether dogs can feel our emotions. Yawn Study Suggests Yes. Pets yawn more in response to owners’ yawns than strangers’, study says. Dog owners who claim their pets know their feelings may be on to something: A new study shows that canines [...]
Pet Fact – Week 27
The blue whale is the loudest animal on earth. Haven’t you heard!? The heaviest domestic cat on record is a staggering 21.297 kg Despite the urban myth, uncooked rice will not in fact expand in a birds stomach causing it to explode! Although experts often disagree, there is scientific evidence which shows that the domestication [...]
Pet Fact – Week 26
Particularly greedy vultures are able to eat so much that they become too heavy to fly! Did you know that the very cute Yorkshire Terrier were originally bred to hunt rats in factories! No two zebras have the same stripes! The firefly is actually a beetle not a fly! There are over 500 million domestic [...]
New mysocialpetwork Feature Alert!
Hello lovely Petworkers, The daily “petwork pics” have been so popular on our facebook and twitter pages we’ve decided to introduce a new feature to the mysocialpetwork.co.uk website – picture awards. This is how it works: everyday we’ll choose a special pet picture from the homepage to feature as our picture of the day to [...]