Introduction – International Dog Day is celebrated annually on August 26 worldwide to encourage young individuals to adopt dogs by providing the best quality of life at home. This Global Day provides an opportunity to celebrate the special bond between human beings and pretty dogs across the world. The main aim of this global day is to encourage individuals to adopt dogs from shelters and rescue organizations and provide the best quality of life.

History – Colleen Paige, pet lifestyle expert, an animal welfare advocate or supporter, and author, founded or created the International Dog Day in the year 2004 to highlight the importance of dogs in families and provide shelters to rescue dogs by providing a lovely environment and showing love or appreciation toward dogs. This global day celebrates the connection and love between human beings and dogs by giving love and treating dogs as a family member. The main aim of this international day is to promote the adoption of dogs among common people across the world.

Significance – Dogs plays an important role in families by protecting their home from thieves and playing with their kids. They are very popular pets playful, loyal, and listen to human beings. Dogs also help in searching for bombs, finding clues or investigating the murder case, and many more. Presently, dogs are treated as family members in several parts of the world. Thus, the main purpose of this global day is to highlight the importance of dogs among human beings and encourage people to adopt dogs from shelters and rescue organizations.

 This International Day provides an opportunity for people to raise awareness about several issues that are faced by dogs in rescue shelters and encourage every person to adopt and take better care of these dogs. You can also celebrate this international day by adopting dog from rescue centre and give love and care for your dog.

Important facts about dogs – There are several important facts about dogs are given below –

• The sense of smell in dogs may be 40 times better as compared with human beings. Thus, dogs are used in searching for bombs and finding evidence. Therefore, dogs are used by police to investigate any murder case.
• Dogs are very popular pets as they are most faithful, playful, friendly, and listen to human beings.
• Sometimes dogs are known as human friends because they are kept as pets that are very loyal and used to secure homes from thieves or criminals.
• Dogs have 18 muscles for moving or controlling their ears and also help in changing the direction of their ears slightly to hear or listen to noises around them.