Your old dog is not nearly as old as you might think, and your exuberant puppy is probably significantly older than you realize, at least in terms of "human years." Researchers at the University ...

Based on data from 15,000 dogs, the team, led by Borbála Turcsán, the team investigated the age at which behavioral and cognitive changes begin to show and how fast they progress in different ...

For a rough idea of a dog’s physical age, a popular approach is to simply multiply its actual age by seven, but new research upends this piece of conventional wisdom by drilling into the rate of ...

Study Finds a Dog Year Doesn't Equal 7 Human Years, Makes Graph to Learn Your Dog's True Age The well-known 1:7 ratio for dog and human years isn't a reliable way to determine your dog's age ...

That’s a question that most dog owners answer using the “multiply by 7” rule. The adage suggests that a 5-year-old pooch is similar in physiological age to a 35-year-old human.

As the chart shows, younger dogs age especially quickly compared with humans. At age one, a dog is more like a 30-year-old-human than a 7-year-old and a 4-year-old dog is more like a 52-year-old ...

To calculate your dog's age in "human years" based on epigenetics, find the dog's age along the bottom axis and trace your finger straight up until you reach the red curve. Then trace your finger ...