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I think in some ways, dogs are like people. Meanng that a lot of it is just genetics/chance.
I new people that big dogs, fed them only once day - table scraps after dinner, never took them for organized exercise and the dogs live to be 15 or 16 years old. Kind of the like the people who have poor diets/lack of medical care/exercise that live to be really old.
I don't why my neighbor would make this up, but he told me he had a dog live to be 30. I didn't ask what kind it was, but I'm wondering if he got mixed up.
I had one dog live to be 13 and one live to be 9. The two I have now are 10 and 5, and I hope they live for a very long time. The 10-year old had cancer surgery two years ago but so far, she's still doing very well.
I can't say which live longer or how true the whole smaller dogs live longer.. I'm just going to have to see.
Teddie will turn 3 Oct 31 of this year
Mahalo will be 5
Buster turns 4 early next year
and Duncan will turn 3 in November
DeVante' my past Schnauzer lived to be almost 11 yo, but became very sick within a day. A list of problems that would have been both painful for him to go through and painful for us to watch him go through.
Bozo lived to be 13-14 years old and a complete street mutt. She was medium size and lived longer than DeVante who was 20 pounds. I think it comes down to each dog. Some breeds are more prone to a shorter life span, but when you look at their diet, health, living conditions and life.. I know of danes that lived to be 16-17 years old and doberman that are still alive at 18-19 years old.
The oldest dog I ever had lived to 18 1/2. She was a beagle. Right now I have a mini poodle that turned 16 in June and a standard Am. Eskimo that is 16. I did read somewhere lately that the average lifespan of purebred dogs has decreased during the last decade or so, attributed to genetic problems due to inbreeding. Don't know if that's true, but it seems plausible.
We've been posting about "usual lifespans" and many of us have or have had dogs that seem to outdo the normal expectancies. Our last dog, Lucy (a shepher/lab mix from the local pound, 75 lb) lived to be 14. She was a love, so gentle in life. Lucy definitely slowed down her last couple of years as arthritis set in and had difficulty going up/down stairs. She would still get up on the couch next to us but instead of jumping - she would put her front paws up and actually pull herself up slowly. Her wonderful temperment never changed.
She wants you do do that math. 141 divided by 2. The dog is 70.5 years old!!!
Or maybe she meant 14 and a half?
Yes I got it that is was 141 divided by 2 but 70.5 years old. Is she using "doggie" years?
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. Is she using "doggie" years?
