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Fando1234 t1_ja3lz0z wrote

I don't understand this graph...

The average life span of a human is around 80ish in the western world. But my dog would have be about 17 to reach that, which is much older than even small dogs generally live.

Wasn't the whole idea originally that you take average human life span and divide by average dog life span?

I get that they've made this non linear to account for the fact a dog develops differently. But according to this your dog can still have pups well into their 60s and 70s.

Plus my one year old dog would be around the same age as me. And he has a stupid amount of energy and I feel like a slow, creaking, falling apart old man.

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OldWorldBluesIsBest t1_ja3xvua wrote

i was taught 1 year is 7 dog years

for some reason this graph wants me to believe 1 year is TWENTY dog years, but somehow 5 is 60, and after a point they just stop aging and become immortal i guess?

goofy ass graph and its not even consistent. this looks like if a kid had to make his own graph about how old he thinks dogs are

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jrm19941994 t1_ja40soo wrote

dogs are fertile at 1, humans are not fertile at 7.

agree the graph makes no sense though.

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OldWorldBluesIsBest t1_ja45v7h wrote

yeah i think at any rate giving different species some equivalent age doesnt really work. but i find 1 to 7 to work better than whatever this graph was

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TheRealestWeeMan t1_ja459z0 wrote

The 1 year = 7 dog years thing is a decent approximation for converting the age of an older dog to a human age. However, dogs develop at a higher rate in their first year or so than in their later years. Your conclusion is pretty accurate

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_b33p_ t1_ja3negp wrote

It doesn't make sense. You can probably just leave it at that 😂. Only thing that kind of makes sense is the age of death.

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Michael90_Denmark t1_ja3tkjp wrote

You don’t need to understand it. There is a dog on the image, that’s all we need.

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Any-Organization3106 t1_ja3l5ga wrote

In terms of having pups, I can totally agree this data is more appropriate. But anyone who thinks a 1 year old dog has finished growing up in the same way as a 30 year old human hasn't had a 1 year old dog.

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_b33p_ t1_ja3mn1w wrote

That's how I looked at it too. No way 6 y/o dog is equivalent to the body and mind if a 60 y/o human

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avl0 t1_ja43ucv wrote

Do humans only have kids after 30 now? TIL

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ReallyOrdinaryMan t1_ja3ki5l wrote

Are female dogs inable to bred after 4 years old? If not, this graph is inaccurate.

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OldWorldBluesIsBest t1_ja3y7a9 wrote

it doesnt. a fact about a non-human species of animal has no bearing on humans. there is no implication

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arcanepsyche t1_ja3zzkm wrote

Considering by 6 months old, most dogs can reproduce, we can align human puberty of about 13 years old to .5 years. And then, most dogs are also fully grown by 1 year, so we can align that to about 22 years of human age.

Dogs have a big growth spurt at the beginning of their life, sort of slowly age for a few years, and then quickly grow "old" after the 10 year mark, so this graph is probably more accurate:
https://imgur.com/nhQslqR

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jrm19941994 t1_ja40lz8 wrote

Damn I hope I am half as athletic at 65 as my 8 year old heeler-whippet mix.

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riaKoob1 t1_ja3nw5m wrote

This made me sad. My puppy is 13 months.

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Tszemix t1_ja47w0e wrote

Your puppy is a 35 human year old runt

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MrGoogle87 t1_ja42pj4 wrote

This is like worst scaling ever.. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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avl0 t1_ja43ihz wrote

The fuck are those axes? this is not beautiful

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gimmickypuppet t1_ja3muuc wrote

We all know a chihuahua and Great Dane don’t age at the same rate. Why one line?

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arcanepsyche t1_ja3wjrs wrote

This..... doesn't make sense. My dog is 8 and is def not 62 or whatever. And then, when he's 14, he's only going to have "aged" to like 72?

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themaverick7 t1_ja43b8n wrote

The OP cited a paper that this modeling was based on. It's both in the image and in the comments.

This data was deduced from DNA methylation patterns, which is just one way of measuring age. Maybe another model can be developed also taking into account various factors, such as fertility.

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AdAcrobatic7236 t1_ja46iab wrote

🔥I think when this was being calculated, his dog ate the homework…

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MezzaYT t1_ja47ab5 wrote

Bro is 20 years old out the womb

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copyboy1 t1_ja47paa wrote

It completely depends on the breed of dog. A 10-year-old Great Dane is very old. A 10-year-old chihuahua isn’t.

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CoreyMFD t1_ja3sjev wrote

Is this the new Taken movie where Liam Neeson has to travel Europe, fighting terrorists, to find the units that were "taken" from this graph?

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Impressive_Estate_87 t1_ja3vq1b wrote

So a 4yo dog is like a 50yo human? I call BS. Maybe we should stop comparing the proverbial apples and oranges

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