Dogs Beside a Doghouse
MediumAges 4-10
Dogs resting by a wooden kennel. A kennel gives shade and shelter, but dogs are social animals and should not be left outside alone for long.
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Realistic Dog Portrait Coloring Page
A detailed head-and-shoulders dog portrait with fur texture — the most challenging page in this topic, made for older children and adults.
Print it at home or in the classroom, colour it in, then read the dog facts underneath to find out more about the animal you have just drawn.
Learn While You Color
About Realistic Dog Portrait
A detailed head-and-shoulders dog portrait with fur texture — the most challenging page in this topic, made for older children and adults.
How a dog's nose works
A dog's nose has far more smell receptors than ours, and part of the air it breathes in is sent to a separate smelling area instead of to the lungs. That is why a dog can pick one scent out of a busy mixture, and why dogs are trained to find lost people, ripe crops and hidden objects.
Dogs and people
Dogs were the first animals people lived with, domesticated from wolves at least 15,000 years ago. Different jobs — herding sheep, guarding homes, hunting, pulling sleds and keeping people company — shaped the many breeds we know today.
Fun facts
- A dog's nose has around 300 million smell receptors; a human nose has about six million.
- Dogs hear much higher pitches than people do, which is why a 'silent' dog whistle still works.
- Puppies are born deaf and blind, and start to see and hear at about two to three weeks old.
- Dogs cool down mainly by panting, because they only sweat through their paw pads.
- Every dog's nose print is different, a little like a human fingerprint.
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A dog asleep and curled up. Adult dogs sleep for roughly half the day, usually in several stretches rather than one.
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A dog sitting outside at night under a starry sky. Dogs see better than we do in dim light, though they see fewer colours.
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DetailedAges 6-12
A Bernese Mountain Dog with a long thick coat and sturdy build. These dogs come from the Swiss mountains, where they pulled carts and helped on farms.
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Border Collie
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A Border Collie in the low crouch it uses when working sheep. Border Collies come from the border country between Scotland and England and are famous for how quickly they learn.
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A German Shepherd standing alert, with tall pointed ears and a long muzzle. The breed was created in Germany in the 1890s for herding, and is now often used in police and search work.
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