The team looked at the way particular molecules, called methyl groups, accumulated in certain areas of the human genome over time and compared them with how they accumulated in similar areas in the dog genome....
[A]s time passes, the rate of ageing in dogs, compared with humans, slows down. The findings suggest a one-year-old dog would have a “human age” of about 30, while by the age of four they’d be about 54 in “human years”, and by 14 they would be on a par with a human in their mid-70s....
July 2, 2020
"Every dog year not equivalent to seven human years, scientists find."
The Guardian tells us.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
13 comments:
Which means to me that critters don't mature identically, irrespective of aging rate, since my 1 1/2-year-old dog acts like a puppy (as has every dog I've ever had at that age), whereas by my mid-30s I was definitely acting like a grown-up woman.
So when do I start training my lab puppy to retrieve? When she's 30?
No. Dogs at one year still have a lot of energetic puppy in them. They might be the equivalent of a human teenager (double the seven years), but no way they are 30 in human years.
Unimportant; have the scientists discovered out who let the dog out?
Various online calculators estimate my 11-year old German Shepherd between 69 and 102 human years. They're not very helpful.
Oddly, there's a one-to-one correspondence between human and canine peeing.
Makes sense to me. A friend has a 10 year old dog that has grey and white hair around the face. Still very vigorous. Seems to me to be like 50-60 people years. A 14 year old dog seems to me like a person in their 80s- becoming blind.
Dogs/cats are pretty much full blown adults at 1 year. If that's not equivalent to 30, its at least equivalent to 20. Furthermore, plenty of dogs/Cats are pretty strong and healthy when they're 12, which would be 96 in human years. The truth is, we live a long time compared to Dogs/Cats but a much larger percentage of our life is spent either as weak children, growing teens, or feeble oldsters.
It’s a dog’s life.
I am middle-aged and spend part of the year in a condo complex that skews young.
There are a few children and many, many canine pets. What will happen if those nice doggies have shorter lifespans and cannot contribute to their owners' Social Security?
by the age of four they’d be about 54
Do these people own dogs?
My dog is 5 and she fetches like she's an Olympic athlete. Mad sprints. She loves it.
You know any 54-year-old people like that?
My unscientific opinion, just based on energy levels and enthusiasm, is that a big dog's life is like this...
Year 1 = Baby, child, adolescent, adult. At the end of the year, the dog's about 18.
Year 2 = Dog is maybe 22.
Year 3 = Dog is 26.
Year 4 = Dog is 30.
Year 5 = Dog is 34.
Year 6 = Dog is 38.
Year 7 = Dog is 44.
Year 8 = Dog is 50.
Year 9 = Dog is 56.
Year 10 = Dog is 62.
Year 11 = Dog is 68.
Year 12 = Dog is 74.
Both my big dogs died at 12. Arthritis hit them the last couple of years.
This always seemed like a silly topic to me. I'm not a dog guy so must be me.
Ooh, ooh, now put scorpions on the back of frogs!
Cats still secretly all want to kill you in your sleep, no matter how friendly they act.
Post a Comment