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Playing around with the numbers a bit, I think it's pretty seriously wrong. A 6-month old dog is still a child, in dog terms. This formula says they're nearly
by duskwuff 6y ago
Playing around with the numbers a bit, I think it's pretty seriously wrong.
A 6-month old dog is still a child, in dog terms. This formula says they're nearly 20 years old; I'd be inclined to say that the "right" answer is more like 15 years, if not less.
A 1-year old dog is beyond adolescence but is still maturing, but this formula says they're 31 years old, well into adulthood.
A 5-year old dog is in the prime of their life; this formula says they're 56 years old, well into the range of what we'd consider a senior.
A 30-year old dog would set a new world record. (The oldest dog known was about 29.5 years old.) This formula maps that to 85 years, which is old, but not extraordinarily so.
- Ancalagon 6y agoActually I think I agree with your assessment more. None of the age alignments really make a whole lot of sense to me, even for bigger breeds of dogs. Also, I feel like I've noticed adolescent and mischevious behavior in some of our dogs well into the 2-3 age range on occasion This behavior mainly noted for cocker spaniels and Korean jindos
- duskwuff 6y agoGiant breeds mature much more slowly, taking two to three years to be fully grown, and effectively age faster after they reach that point, to the extent that they'd be considered elderly by eight or nine years. The 16ln(x)+31 formula already overestimates the effective age of young dogs and underestimates for old dogs; taking giant breeds into consideration just makes its failures even worse.
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