NDS - Nintendogs: Chihuahua and Friends

NDS - Nintendogs: Chihuahua and Friends
With Nintendogs, you can have all the joys of owning a dog without having to put up with the hair, the smells, and the responsibility. Pick from multiple breeds, ranging from Labradors to Chihuahuas, and then take care for and train the puppy using the touch screen and microphone. If you train your puppy well enough, you can compete in dog shows and agility contests to unlock other items and puppy breeds. Dogs included are: Chiuahua, German Shepherd, Boxer, Yorkshire Terrier, King Charles Spaniel and the Shetland Sheepdog.

Top 10 Dog Myths & Little-Known Facts About Dogs

The folks at the Dog Hause came up with a list of 15 interesting facts about dogs.

1. If you give your dog a fancy name, it's not for your dog but for your pride. You'll end up using a nickname.

2. Owning two dogs is no more work than owning one, but three dogs is hard work.

3. Pay no more than half of the retail price for a used kennel.

4. Figure on 1 pound of dry dog food for every 30 pounds of dogs.

5. In a suburb of medium density, a dog's bark can be heard in 200 surrounding houses -- or by 800 people.

6. Anything over 45 minutes seems like forever to your dog. You will be greeted as enthusiastically coming back from a two-hour shopping trip as you will coming back from a two-day vacation.

7. A stray dog who is afraid of people will trust the people associated with the dogs it plays with.

8. The old rule -- multiplying a dog's age by 7 to find the equivalent human age -- is fallacious. A dog is able to reproduce at 1 year and has reached full growth by 2 years. To calculate a dog's age in human terms, count the first year at 15, the second year as 10, and each year after that as 5.

9. If a dog tolerates gentle handling between its toes, it probably is suited for children.

10. The best time for taking a puppy from its litter -- psychologically and physically -- is when it is 49 days old.

View the complete list from Dog Hause here.