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Whether out of curiosity or simply to get an idea of how much time you can spend with your pet, you have surely wondered on several occasions how many years equivalent to human years your dog is. A question that is much more important than it seems, since knowing what phase of your life you are in is essential to provide the care and nutrition that you really need. We explain how to do it.
There has always been talk of the famous seven-year rule to discover the age of a dog and its equivalence in that of humans. However, it is quite likely that during all this time you have been doing it wrong. It is not as simple as it seems a priori, since this calculation includes several factors that until now you have overlooked.
When carrying out this calculation, you should know that one aspect to take into account is the size of the dog . The veterinarian Carlos Rodríguez makes a distinction between small and large dogs. In this way, it yields a piece of information that is most interesting and that you probably did not know: did you know that the bigger the dog, the less life expectancy it has?
Forget the rule of 1 human year = 7 dog years. Taking 1 and 12 human years as a reference, the expert concludes that to know the real age of our dog, we must first multiply by 8 if it is of a small breed (applicable during its first years of life). Something different happens in the case of large breeds. When they are small, these types of dogs grow very slowly, according to Carlos Rodríguez, so we would multiply by six.
However, this changes as the age of the dogs progresses. In this way, when a small one is 6 years old, a large specimen would already have 8. Bad news for lovers of large breeds since they would enjoy their company less time. Therefore, and to get an approximate idea of how this technique works, this is how the calculations would be: while a small dog with 12 years would have 72 (result of multiplying 12×6), a large breed would be around 96 (12×8).
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