{"id":1012,"date":"2020-03-13T05:11:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T05:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pupspal.com\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2023-08-04T00:13:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T00:13:32","slug":"dog-years-vs-human-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pupspal.com\/dog-years-vs-human-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Years vs Human Years: The Better Dog Age Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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One year in dog age is equivalent to seven years in human age. If you are a dog lover, I\u2019m sure you have heard of this well-known calculation that has been going for decades. No one actually knows where the traditional seven-year rule came from. Some believe that it was based on the assumption of human lives to about 70 and dogs to about 10.<\/p>

Interestingly, a recent study<\/a> suggests that this is not true and claimed they have found a more accurate way to calculate the dog years. The research was conducted with 104 Labrador Retrievers aged from 0.1 to 16 years, and 320 individuals aged from 1 to 103 years. The researchers compare and match the dog\u2019s methylation (a process of which chemical changes to the DNA profile over the course of life) to human\u2019s.<\/p>

Surprisingly, it turns out a 1 year old Lab is equivalent to a 31 years old human, then the aging rate quickly tapers off and becomes much slower in the later years. By the age of 10, the Lab\u2019s DNA profile is similar to a 68 years old person. With that in mind, Lab has an average lifespan of 12 years which lines up with human\u2019s average lifespan of 70 years old.<\/p>

They then plotted a graph against both the Lab\u2019s and human\u2019s DNA profile to get the dog-to-human age calculation.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Small Breeds vs Large Breeds<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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We all have accepted the fact that smaller breeds typically live longer than the larger breeds. The biologists have done a research<\/a> to determine the relationship between the dog sizes and life expectancy. Analyze 74 breeds of dogs, and concluded that every 4.4 pounds increase in weight reduces the life expectancy by a month. Why? Reason remains a mystery.<\/p>

Yet, the researcher, Cornelia Kraus stated that larger dogs\u2019 lives \u201cseem to unwind in fast motion\u201d. She hypothesizes a few possibilities and found that one of her speculations \u201clarge breeds age at a faster rate\u201d are more consistent with the findings. What that means is large dogs have shorter life expectancy because they age quicker.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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How Old Is Your Dog in Human Age?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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You can use this new dog-to-human age calculator<\/strong> as a guide to determine how old your four-legged friend is in human years. It is most likely to be correct as the research was done based on matching the DNA changes for both species.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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