Check out this great list of some interesting, funny, strange and touching facts about our best four-legged friends:

• The oldest dog, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, was an Australian Cattle Dog named Bluey, who lived to be 29.
  
• Teddy Roosevelt's pit bull, Pete, once ripped off a French ambassador's pants at a White House event.
  
• A German Shepherd guide dog named Orient led her blind hiker through the entire 2100 mile Appalachian Trail.
  
• Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous Scottish Terrier, Fala, captured quite a bit of attention from the public.  He followed Roosevelt everywhere and was eventually buried alongside him.   Rumors once abounded that the President spent a significant amount of the taxpayers's money to have a destroyer return to the Aleutian Islands and retrieve Fala who had been accidentally left behind.
  
• Rin Tin Tin was the first American dog movie star and signed his own contracts for 22 movies with a paw print.
  
• Zorba, an English Mastiff, is the heaviest dog on record, weighing 343 lbs at the age of 8 in 1989.
  
• According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the smallest dog on record was a Yorkshire Terrier in Great Britain who, at the age of 2, weighed just 4 ounces.
  
• George Washington had 36 foxhounds, and one was named Sweetlips.
  The average city dog lives 3 years longer than a country dog.
  
• The U.S. has the highest dog population in the world.   France has the 2nd highest.
  
• The Lundehund breed has 6 toes and can close its ears.
  
• The most successful mountain rescue dog ever was a St Bernard named Barry, who lived during the early 1800's and saved 40 lives.
  
• A 12 lb Yorkshire Terrier named Oliver once defended an elderly woman from an 80 lb Akita. The woman escaped to safety and the Yorkie survived with only nine stitches.