Facts about your pet dog

DID YOU KNOW?

It is a myth that dogs are color blind. They can actually see in colour, just not as vividly as humans. It is akin to our vision at dusk.

Dogs DO have better low-light vision than humans because of a special light-reflecting layer behind their retinas.

If never spayed or neutered, a female dog, her mate, and their puppies could product over 66,000 dogs in 6 years!

Dogs’ only sweat glands are between their paw pads.

A dog’s mouth exerts 150-200 pounds of pressure per square inch, with some dogs exerting up to 450 pounds per squre inch.

A one year old dog is as mature, physically, as a 15 year old human.

First Google-powered phone coming Sept 23

T-Mobile plans to show off the first wireless phone powered by Google Inc.’s much-anticipated Android software system at a Sept. 23 news conference.

Although T-Mobile intends to demonstrate the phone for reporters and analysts invited to next week’s event in New York, the handset isn’t expected to be available in stores until next month.

More specifics about the phone’s shipping date and pricing are still to come. T-Mobile is expected to subsidize part of the phone’s cost for buyers who agree to subscribe to the carrier’s mobile service.

The phone, made by HTC, has generated a big buzz because it will be the first to use Google’s Android software, which is supposed to make it easier and more enticing to surf the Internet on a handset.

Google is counting on the software, announced last November, to help sell more advertising by encouraging more people to use its Internet search engine and other services while they are away from the office or home.

T-Mobile’s phone will face stiff competition from Apple Inc.’s iPhone, which is Google’s largest source of mobile traffic so far, and Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry. If Google realises its ambitions, hundreds of different mobile devices will run on the Android system.