21 Dog Facts That Are Pleasant As Hell
Sometimes we deserve nice things.
![21 Dog Facts That Are Pleasant As Hell](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/0/9/746909_320x180.jpg?v=3)
Who's a good boy? You are! And you deserve nice things at least some of the time. Here are 21 just plain ol' nice facts about our favorite furry friends, doggone it.
![WAGGING HAS DIFFERENT MEANINGS DEPENDING IF IT'S ON THE LEFT OR RIGHT. Dogs wag to the left when they have positive emotions and to the right when the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/8/1/746881.jpg?v=2)
![DOGS CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WORD MEANINGS AND DINTONATION! Older dogs can't tell words apart as well as younger ones.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/8/3/746883.jpg?v=2)
![A SCIENTIFIC STUDY SHOWED THAT DOGS CAN FEEL JEALOUS. Studies involving other emotions have had inconclusive results.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/8/0/746880.jpg?v=2)
![DOGS' PERSONALITIES CAN CHANGE OVER TIME Owners have a major influence on their dog's personality. Fear and anxiety, however, are personality traits t](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/8/2/746882.jpg?v=2)
![DOGS CAN COUNT UP TOFOUR OR FIVEO 00000 S Dogs can also learn simple arithmetic. COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/7/4/746874.jpg?v=1)
![DOGS POOP IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE EARTH'S MAGNETICFIELDS. They also prefer to poop with their bodies aligned with a North-South axis. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/7/2/746872.jpg?v=2)
![DOGS HAVE EVOLVED A SPECIAL MUSCLE TO MAKE THEM LOOK CUTER TO HUMANS. Dogs can widen their eyes in ways to look more pathetic to humans. Wolves don't](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/5/2/746852.jpg?v=2)
![IN 1888, OWNEY THE DOG WAS THE FIRST POSTAL SERVICE MASCOTo Owney loved the smell of mail bags and followed them onto mail wagons and trains. Eventual](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/7/8/746878.jpg?v=2)
![THE AVERAGE DOG CAN UNDERSTAND 165 WORDS. Very intelligent dogs can learn up to 250. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/5/0/746850.jpg?v=2)
![SCIENTISTS THINK NEOLITHIC DOGS LOOKED LIKE THIS. The Historic Environment Scotland made this (very handsome) facial reconstruction from a skull burie](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/4/5/746845.jpg?v=2)
![DOGS CAN READ HUMAN EMOTIONS. In one study, dogs were able to the match vocal and visual expressions of humans. CRACKEDCON COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/7/9/746879.jpg?v=2)
![DOGS SWEAT oUT OF THEIR PAWS. Dogs' merocrine glands are located in their paws. If dogs sweated out of other parts of their body, the sweat would be a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/4/3/746843.jpg?v=2)
![YOUR DOG'S SENSE OF SMELL IS 10, O00 TO 100,000 TIMES MORE SENSITIVE. The next time your dog lets one rip, just know they are being punished that much](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/4/2/746842.jpg?v=2)
![THIS ROCK ART IS BELIEVED TO BE THE EARLIEST DEPICTION OF DOGS. Believed to be more than 8.000 years old, this rock features dogs on their way to beco](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/5/1/746851.jpg?v=2)
![SIMILAR TO OUR FINGERPRINTS, DOGS HAVE UNIQUE NOSE PRINTS. Some kennel clubs (and a few start-ups) have used nose prints as a way to identify lost dog](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/4/1/746841.jpg?v=2)
![YOUR CHOICE TO OWN A DOG IS PARTLY HEREDITARY. According to one study, genetic variation explains more than half of the variation in dog ownership. CR](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/3/8/746838.jpg?v=2)
![GAZING INTO YOUR DOG'S EYES HAS MUTUAL HORMONAL EFFECTS. Both dogs and owners experience a significant increase of oxytocin levels after staring into](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/4/9/746849.jpg?v=2)
![DOGS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE REBELLIOUS DURING THEIR ADOLESCENCE. Like humans, dogs are more likely to experience heightened conflict during puberty. CR](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/4/4/746844.jpg?v=2)
![LIKE HUMANS, DOGS ARE USUALLY LEFT- OR RIGHT-PAWED. That's paw-sitively cute as hell. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/3/7/746837.jpg?v=2)
![RESEARCHERS HAVE ANEW FORMULA TO FIND OUT A DOG'S AGE IN HUMAN YEARS. The updated equation is human years = = 16 In (dog's age) + 31 CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/3/9/746839.jpg?v=2)
![THREE DOGS SURVIVED THE SINKING OF TITANIC Two Pomeranians and a Pekingnese made it aboard lifeboats. CRACKED CON](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/3/6/746836.jpg?v=2)
Who's a good boy? You are! And you deserve nice things at least some of the time. Here are 21 just plain ol' nice facts about our favorite furry friends, doggone it.