Is it true that one year of a dog’s life equals seven of a human’s?
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This comparison is based on the assumption that on average people live three score years and ten (i.e. seventy years) whereas a dog only live.; for ten. In reality there is considerably more variation.
Most dogs will live for between ten and thirteen years if well looked after, and the small breeds survive longer than the large. Great Danes, Mastiffs, St Bernards and Irish Wolfhounds do not usually reach ten years old, and Boxers will not normally live much beyond that age. Bulldogs usually do not last more than seven or eight years. On the other hand Pekingese, toy breeds and the small terriers often live for between fourteen and seventeen years.
Naturally enough it is always the exceptionally long-lived dogs that one hears about, but these animals, living between twenty and twenty five years or more, should not be regarded as typical. There is even a report of a dog living to the age of thirty-four.
Unspayed bitches usually come into heat until the end of their lives, though generally less frequently (there is no canine equivalent of the menopause), and male dogs may still be capable of siring a litter at sixteen years old.
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