Scientists have come up with a better way to convert your dog's age to human years

Merin Porter

Thought this was interesting!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/11/28/scientists-have-come-up-with-better-way-convert-your-dogs-age-human-years/

"Now, new research by a team of geneticists and biologists at the University of California, San Diego and elsewhere explains the discrepancy. The scientists say they’ve devised a far more accurate formula for the human-canine conversion — one that front-loads the aging process for dogs and accounts for such variables as breed size — by boring into the effects of aging on their respective DNAs."

merlin44

This means my Layla Blu is 32 years old though she still acts like a 4 year old. LOL

Merin Porter

@merlin44, it's so funny -- we've got a 2-year-old male dog who still acts like a 2-year-old, and a 3-year-old female dog who acts like she's 60. These conversions are interesting, but in the end, it's still kind of an individual thing, I think!