How Do You Determine A Dogs Age In Human Years?
The belief that one dog year is equivalent to seven human years is a misconception. There is in fact no single and accurate conversion factor for determining a dog’s age in human years. This is because various breeds have different life expectancies. Generally small dogs live longer, possibly up to fifteen years and large dogs have shorter life spans, around seven years. It is still possible to make broad comparisons in development. This won’t give you a definite ‘human year’ equivalent of a dog’s age but it will help you make a fairly good estimate of how old the dog is in human terms. A one year old dog is a teenager Most breeds reach their adult size after a year from birth. It is also at this time that the dog is already sexually mature. You can thus say that what takes a year for a dog to develop will take 12-15 years for a human being. Thus you can approximate that a one year old dog is fifteen years old in human years. You can modify this equivalence based on your dog’s breed an
