Common wisdom has long held that each dog year is equivalent to seven human years. But a new equation developed to measure how a dog ages finds the family pup may be a lot older than we realize.<\/p>\n
Researchers studying chemical changes to canine DNA found that dogs age very quickly during their first five years and much more slowly later on.<\/p>\n
The findings, published recently in the journal Cell Systems, calculate that a 5-year-old dog would be pushing 60 in human years.<\/p>\n
Puppies age super quickly, said Trey Ideker, the studys senior author and a professor of genetics at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. By the time a dog is a year old, at a molecular level, hes much more like a 30-year-old human. Retrospectively, we did know these things. It didnt make any sense that the equivalent to a 7-year-old human would be able to have puppies.<\/p>\n
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