Basic Canine Medical Information
Normal Values:
Temperature: (rectal) 100-102 F (38-40 C)
Respiration Rate: 22 breaths per minute at rest
Heart Rate: 100-130 beats per minute at rest
Gestation Period (length of pregnancy): 60-67 days
Life Span: varies among breeds from 8-19 years. In general, the smaller breeds live longer
A Little Joke:
TEACHER: Desmond, your composition on "My Dog" is exactly the same as your brother's. Did you copy his?
DESMOND: No, ma'am, it's the same dog!
On This Page:
Not much yet. I hope to write a general history of dogs and write about health problems specific to dogs.
But for now, just some misc information and a place for all the great pictures people send to me.
"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." - Robert Benchley
On Other Pages:
Lymes
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." - Will Rogers
"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam > >
"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate." - Sigmund Freud
"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue."
"Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard." - Dave Barry
"Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog." - Franklin P. Jones
"If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise." - Unknown
"I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl." - Penny Ward Moser
"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation." - Fran Lebowitz
