DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com We’ve always been told dogs age seven years for every one of our years.
But new research shows your dog may be older than you think. According to a study from the University of California San Diego, a one-year-old dog is more like a 31-year-old human.
Then aging in dogs begins to slow. At three years, a dog is more like a 48-year-old human; that’s eight-and-a-half years per year.
By age six, a dog is entering its senior years. Seven years equals 60 in dog years. But by age seven, a dog has only aged about two years.