The famous German Shepherd, Rin Tin Tin, won an Academy Award in 1927 for his performance in 4 box office hits.
Yes, it’s official. People love Labs, to the point that they’ve been consistently voted one of the top 10 breeds since 1991 in the official AKC’s popular breeds list.
This is a common fact, but did you know it’s because they have over 100 million sensory receptors in their nasal cavity compared to a human’s measly six million?
This ties into the previous fact: the area of a canine brain that analyzes odors is also larger than humans—a whopping 40 times larger, to be exact.
In layman’s terms, a dog’s nose can detect heat. This means that they can detect body heat from potential prey, which is how blind or deaf dogs can still hunt successfully even without seemingly necessary visual or auditory senses.