As dogs age, their health needs change, making regular veterinary checkups and preventive healthcare measures crucial for ...

First, type your dog's age into the calculator, press enter and then multiply the number you get by 16. Next, add 31 and you have your supposedly new and improved human-dog age answer.

This means larger breeds, like Great Danes, can be pensioners (by human standards) at 6 or 7 dog years. Whereas a Jack Russell Terrier, on the other hand, would typically be considered a senior ...

One might assume from this that large dogs age faster, Kraus said, but it could also be that they just started aging earlier, and thus develop age-related problems sooner.

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 ...

My dog Winston, a 1-year-old pit bull mix, is a sleek, muscular beast at the peak of his physical abilities. According to the well-known rule by which we convert one dog year into seven human ...

Scientists have developed a more accurate way to determine dogs' ages, rather than multiplying human years by seven. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, looked at changes in ...

“This makes sense when you think about it — after all, a nine-month-old dog can have puppies, so we already knew that the 1:7 ratio wasn’t an accurate measure of age,” said senior co ...