Photo credit DeAnne Gallegos Dr. Joe and Diesel Dog in front of the Silverton Senior Center during his monthly Silverton Veternarian pop up clinic
Question: Do Dogs really have 7 years of life to our 1 human year?
Today is Diesel Dog's 13th Birthday, is she really 91 years old?
Dr. Joe: Actually, the 7 year thing is a bit of a misrepresentation.
Their lives are quite a bit shorter than ours, and they also reach puberty sooner, so for a small dog or cat, maybe their first year is about equivalent to about 18 or 19 of ours, the second year about …
