CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Tuesday marks National Pet Day by showing your animal extra love and doing something fun with them.

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  • Bobo and Nessie
  • Cats from Amy Lagacy
  • Owen Simard, a 9-year-old Chocolate Lab
  • Little Lincoln with his Easter Bunny at Cape Cod
  • Daisy, a 12-year-old rescue from Sue in East Longmeadow
  • Alice, a Saint Bernard / Lab mix from Emily Ciccolo
  • Every day is pet day around our house, MacDuff is the best!
  • Every day is pet day around our house, MacDuff is the best!
  • Cooper from Cecelia Albano
  • Duncan Bear Sawyer
  • Bindi from Kelly Coleman
  • Boba from Kelly Coleman
  • Gloria in Martha’s Vineyard
  • Rose the Pug from Emma Laster
  • Otis the German Shepard Lab mix from Emma Laster
  • 9-year-old Miley J from Chicopee
  • Zeus a Chihuahua and pug mix from Carol VanOudenhove
  • Rudy and Racer from South Hadley
  • Blue from Emily McNally
  • LaLa from Wilbraham
  • 19 year-old, Cally from Kathy Sliwa
  • 12 year-old, Brandy from Kathy Sliwa
  • Bertha from Kimberly Lengieza
  • Tiny, who is 13 Years Old from Stephanie Perez
  • Dazy, Karl, and Roze from Octavia J. Anderson
  • Redford from East Longmeadow
  • Brady from East Longmeadow
  • Photo courtesy of Angel Bautista

To celebrate, here is Best Friends Animal Society’s Top 10 list of random facts about pets:

10. Dogs’ ears have approximately 18 muscles which help them to change the direction of their ears slightly to hear better. 

9. A cat’s whiskers are as long as their body is wide. Their whiskers let them know if they can pass through narrow spaces. 

8. Screen time might be good for puppies. If you show 3-5-week-old puppies videos of “scary” things like loud noises, they are less likely to develop fears of new things later in life. 

7. Kittens learn to meow solely to communicate with humans. Cats never meow to each other (although they do chirp to each other). 

6. Puppies don’t find yawns contagious, but older dogs do! Contagious yawning is usually attributed to social mirroring. Baby humans don’t start social mirroring until they’re a few months old, so it makes sense that puppies wouldn’t either! 

5. One way a dog perceives time is by the changing smells throughout the day.   

4. Cats share 95.6% of their DNA with tigers. 

3. Because cats can pause their labor, one litter of kittens can have multiple due dates.  

2. If given the choice, dogs prefer to poop facing the North-South magnetic axis. 

1. Cats perceive humans as big, hairless cats.