I was driving home from a meeting the other night listening to “Nights with Alice Cooper.”

It’s a good radio show and I always like your weird facts and comments. Good things like:

Kentucky Fried Chicken’s slogan, Finger Licking Good, in Chinese translates to “Eat your fingers.”

Thinking about the strange deeds of Alice Cooper got me thinking. You see, every day I get a ton of questions via email, Twitter, and Facebook.

Some of the common ones are:

Do Pit Bull Jaws Really Lock When They Bite?

Does a Doberman’s brain enlarge as he ages making him aggressive?

Is it true that a dog that wags its tail will not bite you?

So, in the spirit of Alice Cooper, I’m going to give you the weird facts about Eric Letendre’s dog:

1. President Lyndon Johnson had two beagles named He and She. I once had a client who had two chocolate labrador retrievers named “Hershey” and “Squirts.”

2. A dog’s mouth exerts 150-200 pounds of pressure per square inch and some dogs exert up to 450 pounds per square inch – Pit Bull’s jaws DO NOT lock, but with that much pressure, he will not open his mouth. I have seen this in many breeds, once they closed their jaws, they couldn’t open them.

3. Basset Hounds can’t swim. I know this is true. A client of mine had to jump out of his canoe to save his basset hound. His basset thrashed, fell out of the canoe and sank like a stone. (I don’t completely buy it because if you’ve ever seen the movie “Smokey And The Bandit” there’s a scene with Fred the Basset Hound swimming in a pond.)

4. Dogs have no sense of “time.” I dont believe it. Feed your dog every day at 4:00 pm for three months. At the end of the third month, observe what your dog does when he is not given food at that time.

5. 70% of people sign their pet’s name on greeting and holiday cards. Do you do this?

6. 58% put pets in family and vacation portraits. I do this.

7. Dogs can only learn about 20 words – WRONG! Dogs can learn much more than 20 words.

Think about it, if you teach your dog only the basic commands: sit, get down, stand, stay, come, wait, let’s go, heel – 8 words.

Then, he teaches some simple tricks: shake, roll over, sit up, talk, crawl, wave, play dead, high five, and circle – 9 words.

17 so far 17 words. Then if you add some behaviors that are very easy to teach, like go to your box, back up, get to work, you easily get to 20 words.

In Stanley Coren’s book, “The Intelligence of Dogs,” he states, “Sure, most dogs understand the basics: ‘fetch,’ ‘sit,’ and ‘stay.’ patience, you can probably teach your dog even more than 100 words.

Mr. Coren adds: “That trained dogs on average know around 160 words. Some dogs even display a vocabulary as large as that of a human toddler.”

So don’t think your dog is limited. You can teach your dog a lot of words that will impress your friends and family.