Question: What was the common term for all domesticated dogs in England during the 14th century?
Answer: hound

Question: When did the word dog become the common term for canines?
Answer: 16th century

Question: Hound became the term for dogs who did what activity during this time?
Answer: hunting

Question: What Proto-Indo-European word is hound from?
Answer: *kwon- "dog"

Question: What are a single birth group of puppies of a dog called collectively?
Answer: a litter.

Question: What is the male who is father of the pups called?
Answer: sire

Question: What is the French word that "puppy" comes from?
Answer: poupée

Question: What is giving birth to dogs called?
Answer: whelping

Question: What is the English word for female dog that has also become profanity?
Answer: bitch

Question: A male canine is called a dog while a female canine is called a what in reference to breeding?
Answer: bitch

Question: What are canine offspring referred as?
Answer: litter

Question: What is the father of a litter referred as?
Answer: sire

Question: What is the mother of a litter referred as?
Answer: dam

Question: What are the individual litter canines called?
Answer: pups

Question: What is the Latin term for "dog.?"
Answer: Canis

Question: What year are dogs first listed in Systema Naturae?
Answer: 1758

Question: Who published Systema Naturae?
Answer: Linnaeus

Question: What is the modern single English word for Canis lupus?
Answer: wolf

Question: What 1982 publication listed regular family dogs under wolves?
Answer: Mammal Species of the World

Question: What is the Latin word for dog?
Answer: Canis

Question: Canis familiaris is the classification for dogs, and is known as what?
Answer: family dog

Question: What is the Latin name for a wolf?
Answer: Canis lupus

Question: Feral dogs have what Latin classification?
Answer: Canis dingo

Question: What year was Canis familiaris listed under Canis lupus?
Answer: 1982

Question: What year was it decided that if wolves and dogs were one species, then their scientific name is the name of the wild variety?
Answer: 2003

Question: What 2005 publication in its third edition kept to that ruling?
Answer: Mammal Species of the World

Question: What Latin dog term is still used because wild and domesticated dogs are recognizably different?
Answer: Canis familiaris.

Question: What official body recognizes both Canis lupus and Canis familiaris?
Answer: ICZN

Question: Many researchers prefer what term?
Answer: Canis familiaris.

Question: Who ruled in 2003 that scientific names for wild animals share the same scientific name as their domestic counterparts?
Answer: ICZN

Question: What was this decision called?
Answer: Opinion 2027

Question: What indicated dogs and gray wolves developed as two monophyletic clades?
Answer: genetic studies

Question: The common relative of dogs and existing wolves is now considered what?
Answer: extinct.

Question: Modern dogs likely began when human beings were considered to be what?
Answer: hunter-gatherers

Question: Due to admixture, what species are many Arctic dogs related to?
Answer: Taimyr wolf of North Asia

Question: Rather than with agriculturists, dogs seemingly were during the time of who?
Answer: human hunter-gatherers

Question: Most breeds share a genetic likeness to what animal?
Answer: gray wolf

Question: Some Arctic breeds are more like what wolf rather than the gray wolf?
Answer: Taimyr

Question: What species shows more difference in size, looks and actions than any other?
Answer: Modern dog breeds

Question: What are dog teeth best suited for?
Answer: catching and tearing.

Question: Dogs are considered to be predators and what else?
Answer: scavengers

Question: What bones in dog legs are fused?
Answer: wrist

Question: A dog's heart and vascular ability if best suited for sprinting and what else?
Answer: endurance

Question: What are a dog's teeth mainly used for?
Answer: catching and tearing

Question: Dogs originated as predators and what?
Answer: scavengers

Question: Dogs show an extreme range in what two characteristics?
Answer: height and weight.

Question: What breed was the largest dog known to have lived?
Answer: English Mastiff

Question: What is the biggest known dog?
Answer: English Mastiff

Question: Which coat is more common with dogs living in colder climates?
Answer: double

Question: Along with a gruff guard hair, what else makes up the double coat?
Answer: soft down hair

Question: What is the more common coat for dogs from colder climates?
Answer: double

Question: What is a single coat?
Answer: topcoat only

Question: When a dog has a camouflage pattern on its coat, this is called what?
Answer: countershading

Question: A dog with countershading has dark coloring where?
Answer: upper surfaces

Question: A natural camo pattern is known as what?
Answer: countershading

Question: What color is on a dogs upper surfaces if it has countershading?
Answer: dark coloring

Question: What is reduced when a dog has countershading?
Answer: visibility

Question: What part of a dog can be straight, curly or cork-screwed?
Answer: tails

Question: What does a dog communicate with its tail?
Answer: emotional state

Question: What part of a dog can be straight, curled, or cork-screwed?
Answer: tails

Question: What are some dogs prone to?
Answer: genetic ailments

Question: What are all dogs susceptible to?
Answer: parasites

Question: Pyometra usually affects what type of female dog?
Answer: unspayed

Question: Who does pyometra affect?
Answer: unspayed females

Question: What are fleas, ticks and mites called?
Answer: parasites

Question: Some foods that are okay for people to eat are what to dogs?
Answer: toxic

Question: Grapes, raisins, onions, garlic and what common sugar alcohol (sweetener) is toxic to dogs?
Answer: xylitol

Question: What type of nut is poisonous to dogs?
Answer: macadamia

Question: What is the chemical in chocolate that is poisonous to dogs?
Answer: theobromine

Question: Some human foods can be what to dogs?
Answer: toxic

Question: What in tobacco can hurt dogs?
Answer: nicotine

Question: What form of chocolate is especially toxic to dogs?
Answer: dark

Question: Mutts, dogs that have several breed characteristics, live how much longer than purebred dogs?
Answer: 1.2 years

Question: Do bigger dogs typically have longer or shorter lives?
Answer: shorter

Question: When was a study done that discovered mixed breeds tend to live longer than pure breeds?
Answer: 2013

Question: Typically, how much longer do mixed breeds live?
Answer: 1.2 years longer

Question: What is the median lifespan of canines?
Answer: 10 to 13 years.

Question: What is the canine breed with shortest median lifespan?
Answer: Dogue de Bordeaux

Question: What is the median length of life for the canine breed that lives the least amount of years?
Answer: 5.2 years

Question: What is the average lifespan of an Irish Wolfhound?
Answer: 6 to 7 years.

Question: Which dog has the shortest lifespan?
Answer: Dogue de Bordeaux

Question: What is the average lifespan for a Dogue de Borddeaux?
Answer: 5.2 years

Question: What is the average length of years of life for canines with long lifespans?
Answer: 14 to 15 years.

Question: What is the name of the canine that is reported to have lived the longest?
Answer: Bluey

Question: What is the name of the dog in the Guinness Book of World Records for longest lived?
Answer: Pusuke

Question: What year did the dog die that is reported to be the longest lived but not officially in a record book?
Answer: 1939

Question: What was the name of the dog who lived to be 29.5 years?
Answer: Bluey

Question: When did Bluey die?
Answer: 1939

Question: Who did the Guinness Book of World Records say was the oldest dog in 2011?
Answer: Pusuke

Question: How many times per year do female dogs go into heat?
Answer: two

Question: What does going into heat (estrous) prepare a female dog for?
Answer: pregnancy.